The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02
The High Cost
OF Lining
And Some Artistic Touches From the Tongue
Of Congressman Crowther, as Found In The
Congressional Record Of Aug. 9th.

ldlstlngulshed gentlemtan from Ala'
bama, whose personal pulchritude
cause flutter in every feminine
heart whenever he rises to address
the House. But you can only fool
a part Of the people all the time
and the soldier boys of the good old
U. s. A. knows that they helped ia
win the war, not because OF the eff
cheney Of the Democrat administra-
ton but that they were successful in
spite of the fact that they were ser
iously HANDICAPPED in many branches
of the service by your failures. The
failures were indirectly the result OF
watchful waiting and II the spirit OF
hide-bound partisanship had been
banished from the Democratic admin
tsration just long enough to benefit
by the prophetic vision and practical
advice OF the late Theodore Roose-
welt and Mai Gen. Leonard Wood,
thousands of lives might have been
saved and many a mother spared her
anguish and sorrow.
You charge the Republican major
ity with having made no advance in
reconstructive legislation after but
ten weeks or less of this special ses-
sion. Most of that time has been
employed in cleaning up the mass of
legislation strangled in the closing
days of the Sixty-fifth Congress not
as has been so frequently charged
on that side OF the House by Rec
publican filibustering but by Demo-
cratic procrastination. Also desire
on your part that IL Republican
majority was returned that you
might have in special session some leg
islation of your own construction TO
play politics with. That YOU antici-
pated this condition was clearly ex-
emplified by the letter from the
President asking the people for
Congress as an evidence
Of confidence in the administration.
Well the people thief country ans
wered that letter in no uncertain
terms even though their minds were
occupied with the great war and now
that they have opportunity to calm
ly and carefully consider the facts
they will in 1920 serve notice upon
the Democratic party that their SER
vices are no longer required.
The gentlemen OF the minority
seem unduly alarmed that we Repub-
licans are losing our prestige with
the people OF the country but in your
hearts you know that whenever the
country has been under Republican
rule a spirit Of confidence pervades
every individual and all Industrial en-
terprises.
The country, slckened to death
with Democratic anemia developed as
a result of your "thin-gruel" policy
of economies is now to be refreshed
and regenerated by the TRANSMISSION of
the red blood OF Republican accom-
piishment.
The ending of the war leaves the
Republican Congress heir to many
serious problems, but past perform
ances give assurance that they will
be handled with maximum OF ca
pability, and ] trust that there may
come from your side of the House
that full measure of support for Re-
publican legislation in this coming
period of reconstruction that was ac-
corded you by the Republican minor
ity when some of your own members
were weak in the knees on war leg
islation.
You chide us Cor not having no
program for the railroad problem,
that your administration helped to
make more serious matter than II
would normally have been. 1t is
perhaps the greatest problem we
have to deal with and affects every
citizen of the nation. Labor and
capital must be reconciled, and fair