The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-31

Eorgets there are graves - American IN
France today, because such men as he helped
to prolong the war. He says congressman, not
being representative, may exclude him, but
he will return again and again Born in the
same year | was born, 1860, he had every
opportunity to become good American. He
was born in Austria; he came here of his
own choice in 1878. He was Is years old;
he had his eyes open. He came to better
his condition. Yet in 38 years he has failed
to acquire even our tongue; at least he has
retained his beloved Austrian accent so that
an American can hardly understand his every
other word. Three hundred of us, desiring
to be fair judges, desiring to give him the
benefit of the doubt, have become satisfied
he is guilty of giving aid and comfort to
Germany. | wish every citizen could have
heard him. / hope he sends his abusive
speech to million men. He is hater of our
American system and government; he is a
traitor in speech and heart and soul. And
once he himself took the oath to support the
Constitution of the United States against all
enemies, foreign or domestic. He impresses
me not as mere man; he is menace; he
represents and embodes and personifies an
awful thing, whose Jaws and claws Nhave
helped to keep out of the finest legislative
body in the world. | thank God | have had
the opportunity to render that much service
to my beloved country. | could do no less
under my oath which reads as follows: do
solemnly swear that | will support and de-
fend the Constitution of the United States
against all enemies, foreign and domestic
that will bear true faith and allegiance to
the same; that | take this obligation freely,
without any mental reservation or purpose
of evasion and that | will we'll and faithfully
discharge the duties of the office upon which
/ am about to enter. So help me God
Harreld Voted to SEAT This Man.
There are 435 members of Congress from
the forty-eight several states, part Democrats
and part Republicans. Of this entire group
of congressman there were only six who were
willing to condone the offenses of Victor
Berger and allow him a seat in the Congress
of the United States after he had been indict-
ed, tried, convicted and sentenced to twenty
years Imprisonment Congressman Harreld
was one of the six.
We pause and ask Oklahomans, both Re,
pubicans and Democrats, men and women
high and low, rich and poor--did you then
do you now, approve of such vote Of such
a congressman who would condone such an
offense?
We pause and ask the Oklahoma mothers
who gave $4,000 boys to their government
during its hour of stress, do you approve OF
such vote--do you approve of such con-
gressman?
We pause and ask the $4,000 fathers who
gave these $4,000 sons who were to beal
their names on down through the cor
ridors of time-did you then, do you now
approve of such congressman or such 6
vote?
We pause and ask the $4,000 Oklahoma
soldiers, who made sacrifices for their gov
ernment and offered their lives to their gov
ernment that liberty and free government
might live-we ask you: While you were
standing in water up to your hips in thu
trenches doing your duty, rendering YOU
government your lives-do you approve o.
what Victor Berger said and the treason tina
he cast abroad in the land? We ask if yol
approve of the congressman who approved O
Berger? ?-Poteau News