The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-08-25
CONGRESSMAN FRENCH
NOT A CANDIDATE
IN ADDRESS AT CAMP HUM
PHREYS HE EXPORTS OVER
SEAS MEN TO BE LOYAL

Sunday night, Congressman Bur-
ton L. French addressed the soldiers
of Camp Humphreys upon invitation.
Camp Humphreys has been a sort
of gateway and most of the soldiers
there are just back from overseas
and will soon be on their way home.
In the course of his address, Mr..
French referred to the appeal. that
has been made by disloyali organiza-
tions for soldiers support.
Il know said Congressman
French, "the appeal that is made to
you by l. w. w. and other Bolsheviki
people in our country for you to
group yourselves with these organi-
cations in their disloyal efforts
against the government. | know, too,
the answer that you men will give
to the disloyaI elements of our
country for | know that no matter
where your experiences may have led
you-whether to Russia, Italy, Germ
any, or to France-you have seen no
country whether made under the rule
of autocracy or under the rule of the
mob that for one moment can be
compared with your own country
the responsibility of the administra-
ton of which is vested with the peo-
pie OF our splendid land.
81 am here to tell you men that
when you were overseas, when you
were sacrificing your lives, when you
were paying the last sad rites to
those of your comrades whol had fall
len in battle, these were the disloyal
traitors of your own country who
wer doing everything in their power
to embarrass the administration, to
hamper the United States in the war
program, and were stabbing you in
the back in order to prevent your at
tanning the success which you did at
tain.
''These are troublous times. I'm
rest is everywhere. You are not re-
turning to the homes that you left.
Conditions have changed.
81 saw in the war zone of France
a few months ago when was there
peasant families coming back with
all their earthly belongings miserably
crude ruins piled up in cart drawn
by one horse and each member of the
family trudging YEARLY along the
road to the old home, and when he
gets to that home what will he find |
Fields destroyed, orchards in ruins, !,
the home itself that has been shelter |
and the only habitable place |
able cellar to which the family must |
be invited until upon that ruin home
can be built again.
my soldier friends, changed as
are the conditions in your homes, you
are not returning to such desolation
as that which you saw there and
which | saw in France Times in the
United States are troublous Econom-
&c conditions have been shattered.
prices of living are high. There is
in employment. 1t will
require steady minds on our part and
patience on our part to work out a
condition that BELTS our people.
Il am glad you are returned be-
,ause we need you now more than
EVER before to have a part in this
great work. We need you because
you more than the rest of our people
what American govern
nent means. You know because YOU
lave made the sacrifice for it. |
are not what your political thoughts
nay be. | have no quarrel with you
f you are republicans or democrats
n whatever you may be, for | know
hat as never before your lives will
re dedicated, during the future days
hat we trust will be of peace, just
IS they were dedicated during the
asst two years when we were on the !
attic line, to country that stands
or orderly government, that stands
or equality of opportunity every
where, that stands for the countless
lessings that are wrapped up in the
yord civilization as it is known by
he people of our country"
Mr.. French paid tribute to the
ravery, courage and worth of the
american soldier and quoted the t
lords of one of the foremost gen {
rails of the American army when he {
aid, GAS much praise as is due the (
Ulcers for the winning Of the war, '
I the last analysis, when you con-
ider hardships, when you consider
acrifices, when you consider that
hitch was necessary to win the war,
MS war was won by the sergeants {
nd the doughboys." t
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