Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-12-16

great democratic dailies of the south
and the most influential political or
gan OF the state, in an editorial under
the caption, How To Commit Sui
eide" stated that for the democratic
party to &C before the people tied up
with support of the treaty of peace
and league covenant as they are,
would be to go down to inevitable de-
feat. The same editorial further
states. "A few days ago Senator I'm
derwood in a fit of bravado. challenged
the republicans to make the league of
nations the issue in the next campaign
II. as II is claimed, the proposition
was defeated because the republicans
opposed 1t and had majority in the
senate. the fact still remains and
must be considered that while the re-
publicans polled their full party
strength, number of democrats al
so Joined with them. We are conf
dent that a greater difference exists
throughout the country than existed
in the senate and that If this were
made the issue more than 1000 900
democrats would leave their party
while the republicans would cast
practically a solid vote. Wherever
the test has been made the democrats
have lost out on that issue. We have
already lost Kentucky and the cleo
ton in one Oklahoma district shows
what would happen in that state. If
the democrats make this an issue
they will find ii hard to explain why
the United States should have no
more representation than an English
colony They would go before the
American voters and the party would
be buried out of sight"
The Times editor makes feeble at
tempt to defend the administration for
its incompetence and criminal failure
in aeroplane production and whether
the whole truth is ever known or not,
! the incident will go down in history
as the greatest outrage ever perpe-
trated upon any nation of people.
Congress appropriated almost bill
lion dollars for aviation to enable our
government TO put through what 1t
secretly advised congress would be
the greatest air craft program in the
history of the world. With hushed
voices they whispered. "let nothing be
said to indicate to the enemy what is
going to happen. We are going to
win the war in a spectacular way
Give us the money and ask no quest
ions as to how we shall spend IL and
we will place on the lighting front on
the first of May, 1918, 10000 fighting
craft. This swarm of 10000. belch-
/ ing forth missiles of death. dropping
large bombs of destruction, will
sweep the German armies from the
earth, blow up Berlin and all of their
great cities and Germany will be
wiped out in the twinkling of an eye"
The money was forthwith approp-
rated and by this administration was
squandered. No doubht much of ii
went into the pockets of men who
were supposed to be at work helping
the aviation program; anyhow. we
know that II was squandered and was
wasted When Nav LIST arrived the
crisis was greater than anybody had
anticipated That crisis saw the
German armies sweeping through
France and smashing the lines right
and left: it found not a single Ameri-
can fighting plane in France and the
handful of machines we had in the ali
were out-of-date; France and Eng
land had discarded the same machines
The glory is all to those men, who
handicapped by the inefficiency al
home. wrote such brilliant chapter
in American history; but they wrote
it in letters of blood and many of then
never lived to tell the story. If these
administration boosters would go tc
France and gaze upon these silent
graves of fallen American aviators
possibly they might then gain some
conception of the enormity OF the
failure.
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