Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-29

would be entitled to the enduring
gratitude of the nation. This act
supplied the country with an elastic
currency controlled by the Ameri-
can people. Panics-the recurring
phenomena Of disaster which the Re-
publican party could neither control
nor eXplain--are now but memory.
Under the Republican SYSTEM, there
was an average of one bank failure
every twenty-one days for perid of
age of the federal reserve system,
there were, in 1915, four bank fail
ures in 1915 and 1917, three bank
failures; in 1918, one Dank failure;
and in 1919, no bank failures at all.
The federal reserve system, passed
over the opposition of the leaders of
the Republican party, enabled Ameri-
ca to withstand the strain of war
without shock or panic; and ulti-
mately made our country the great
est creditor nation of the world.
Achievements in War
And then the great war came on.
Ultimately, by the Logical steps of
necessity. our peace-lovng nation
was drawn into the conflict. The
necessary war legislation was quick
ly supplied.
"a war finance corporation was
created. War risk insurance was
provided shipbulding laws re-es-
the seas. The office of alien prop
erty custodian was created. A war
Industries board was established. A
war trade board was created. Food
and fuel regulations were fNrmu-
lated. Vast loans were successfully
floated. Vocational training was
provided. A national council of de-
Tense was created. Industry was sue
cessfully modified.
Almost overnight, the factories of
the nation were made a part Of the
war machine, and the miraculous
reviva. Of the shipping industry
filled the ocean lanes with our trans
ports.
Our fleet laid the North sea mine
barrage. We sent fighting craft to
every sea and brought new courage
land inventive genius to the crucial
fight against the U-boat.
I'm transporting our troops to
France, we never lost man in a
ship conveyed by the American
navy.
the selective draft. Many patriotic
citizens strongly deprecated conscrip-
ton and dreaded it's possibilities. The
administration, however, placed its
influence behind the measure, Sc
cured its passage, and made possible
the winning of the war.
cit proved a Democratic system
assuring equal service, equal danger
and equal opportunity. At one
stroke of the pen, bounty jumping
and the hired substitutes that had
disgraced the management of the
Civil war were made impossible. The
selection of men to go to the front
was placed not merely in the hands
of the civil authorities, but actually
in the hands of the friends and
neighbors of the men eligible for
service. No fundamental law was
ever administered with such scrupu-
lous honor Not one breath of scan
dial touched this legislation; and so
cheerfully was 1t accepted that to-
day, the term draft dodger' is an
epithet Of reproach in any COM
munity.
- work In France
'Partisanship was put aside in the
selection of General Pershing as
leader Of our forces and no military
commander in history was ever given
a freer hand or more unflagging
support. The policy of selecting Of
ficers through training camps avoid
ed the use of political favorites and
guaranteed competent leadership for
men were registered within three
from the declaration of war
and thirty-two camp cities, complete
in every municipal detail, were built
in ninety days.
"In France, we had to construct
our own docks, railroad lines, stor-
age depots. hospitals and ordnance
bases. We had to cut down the
forests for our barracks. In June,
two months after the declaration of
war, our fighting men were in
on the firing line; in scarcely more
than a year, we had 100000 men
in France, had whipped the enemy
at Belleau Wood, beaten them back
at Chateau Thierry, wiped out the
st. Mihiel salient and delivered the
terrific hammer blow at Sedan that
virtually ended the war.
Les than two years ago. General
Haig, with the bluntness Of a sol
dier, said: The British arcy is
fighting with it's back to the wal;
Lloyd George was crying: 1t is a
race between Wilson and linden
burg. and France chung like a
man to the rock of Verdun,
turning agonized eyes toward Amer
lea. And America came. We chal-
lenge the critics of the administra-
limits of human possibility, the war
could have been won more promptly
or with less loss of American life.
cit was not by mere chance that
these things were accomplished. To
readjust the processes of peace so
as to serve the activities of war re-
skill. Petty criticism of minor de-
fects and individual officials may for
a time attract a superficial atten-
ton, but the significant things, the
great outstanding facts plead elo-
quently for the Democratic cause.
LET no one misunderstood US.
These great affairs were carried for
ward under the stimulus of American
patriotism, supported by the courage
and the spirit Of our people. All this
but surely the time has come when,
because Of the calculated criticism
and the premeditated calumnies of
the opposition, we are entitled to call
attention to the fact that all of these
things were accomplished under the
leadership of a great Democrat and
great Democratic administration.
one. We are proud Of our great
navy; we are proud Of our splendid
army; we are proud of the power OF
our country and the manner in which
that power has been used; we are
proud of the work that America has
QOne IN the WOTlu5 We are pIouu VI
the heroism of American men and
women; a nd We are proud of the in
spired and incompatible leadership
of Woodrow Wilson.
HAS not the time come when all
Americans, irrespective of party
should begin to praise the achieve
ments of our country rather than
to criticize them? Surely just and
righteous sense of nationa l pride
should protect us from the insensate
assaults of mere partisans. We
fought a great war, for great cause
and we had leadership that carried
America to greater heights of honor
and power and glory than she has
ever known before in her entire his
tory. If the American flag must be
lowered, it will be hauled down in q
Republican convention and not in a
Democratic convention.
Partisan Investigations
at is this shining record of ire
mendous achievement that Repup1i'
can managers and the Chicago plat
form seek to shame and besmircn
Various congressional committees
which for want of a more appropri'