The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-10-09

points and challenge these opponents
to convert them. have arranged
these points in a very SIM simple way Z ~
going to ask that they be published
| in the Record this way, so that any
Senator or any citizen my have The
opportunity OF writing IN the name
| Judgment, answers the question: All
| that ask is that they be candldly
answered.
| here and now promise to give as
full publication as l can to the
! answers.
The ii American Points.
4. During whose administration
has the American farmer received
the greatest returns for his toll?
2. During whose administration
has the American laborer had his
fullest dinner pail and received MS
greatest pay? -.
8. During whose administration
has the American business man
made his largest profits
4. During whose administration
has the American banker and
American stockholder III other cor
porations received their largest
dividends
5. During whose almi abstraction
has America enjoyed he: greatest
prosperity
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has the greatest merchant marine
ever owned by America been built?
7. During whose administration
has the greatest banking system
ever known been created?
8. During whose administration
has the wealth OF America been
made to bear its just proportion of
taxation by the passage OF income
tax laws?
9. During whose administration
did America become the great finan-
cial center of the world?
10. During whose administration
has the American navy reached it's
highest efficiency?
II. During whose administration
was it found that American citizens,
unframed in times of peace, could be
transformed in a few short months
into better soldiers than those train
ed for a lifetime in the standing
armes Of Europe?
-. During whose administration
did America achieve for herself, and
aid in achieving for allies, the great
est victory of all ages?
13. During whose administration
was America changed from the
greatest debtor nation to the great
est credit nation in the world?
IA. During whose administration
has America made her greatest
strides toward becoming the first
world power, and has a President of
the United States become the
acknowledged peer of any ruler on
earth.
I ask both Republican and Demo-
cratic opponents of President Wilson
to answer these IA questions fairly.
To those Senators who oppose him |
address myself particularly He is
the head of our Government. I'm
der his leadership this nation has
been prosperous and successful at
home and victorious abroad and it
has progressed as never before in
has been accomplished the IA
American facts indicated in these
questions, surely every 100 per cent
American should be willing, in all
fairness, to accord him the justice Of
an answer. These facts are the re-
suit Of Wilson's IA American policies.
If all Ia European policies are all
RIGHT every American must
admit these IA American policies
are what the American people want
ed. and every true American takes
the greatest pride in each and every
one of them. You can not set aside
these IA American points.
Urges Fair Play.
Political opponents of the Presis
dent in every part of our country,
declaring the war. You worked with
him to make that war a success. You
agreed with him as to the announced
principles for which we were fight
ing. Now that under his leadership
the war has been success when we
have gained everything we went in.
to the war for, do not act the part OF
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country for cuckoo AMERICANS. Be
men enough to complete the JOB in
the same patriotic spirit in which
war was declared and carried on
Farmers, laboring men: bankers:
business men, great and small, l
want to warn you. Your conditions
have been the best you have ever
known. You have no just cause or
complaint: taken as a whole ?l 10 10
with these conditions BY reason
of delay, conditions are getting an,
settled. Do not you think you had
better advise your representatives 10
0uit uuibbling over details and get
our affairs settled Our people
want peace and rest and normal con-
ditions in this country. :.
over! One hundred per cent Ameri-
cans, let us give our President and
his policies a square deal! His
policies have made us great at home
and the first power abroad. His
policies have honored us in every
land. They have made the name
America the synonym of all that is
fair and just wherever civilization
exists throughout the world. Free
peoples and would-be-free peoples of
every cline look to America for
guidance in every upward move
Americans love fair play. We are
not being fair to our greatest citizen
and our most successful leader He
has been faithful both in war and
in peace. He has been most sue
cessful in both our domestic and our
foreign affairs. We have had long
and destructive war. Our people
are tired of war and it's attending
disturbing conditions. Mr.: Wilson
has negotiated reasonable peace,
honorable alike to ourselves and our
allies and our former enemies. and
giving the greatest assurance OF en-
during permanence. 1t is probably
better than could be gotten if we
tried It all over again. Let us not
send it back to conference. Let us
take it as 1t is, without reservations
and without amendments In the
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