The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-27

week across the sNs, that ship TO
be painted in black and white stripes,
10 the everlasting shame of the
Stars and Stripes he demanded that
we bottle up the products Of our
farms and fields, that we keep our
ships in our harbors, that We stack
our cotton IN our warehouses and let
the grain which was needed to feed
both the warrinS ard neutral nations
Of Europe rot in the barns of Ameri-
can farmers who would be shut off
from the sale of cotton, wheat or
meat TO the nations who were fight
ing for civilization against the legions
Of the kaiser.
Senator Gore himself introduced a
resolution TO this effect in the SEN
ate of the, United States and made
a speech urging its adoption.
If this resolution had carried, wheat,
instead of selling for Sl00 bushel
would not have been worth so cents
a bushel; cotton which had already
dropped to cents "A pound would
not have been worth more than
cents a pound. Friend OF the farmer
as he processes to be, he would have
built Chinese wall of cowardice
around America and made the pro-
ducts of the farm worth little or
nothing TO the American farmer
Again, when congress in fairness
to the soldier, was trying to raise his
pitiful allowance from the meager
sum of SIS per month to the mini
mum of $50 per month, Senator Gore.
on June "a, 1916, as shown on p 1914
of the Congressional Record Of the
cath congress, made a speech oppos.
called the soldiers sunshine patriots"
Again when the country was in
its deadliest peril when We had de-
clared war and when we had no army
and when that great democratic plan
of drafting rich and poor alike to
serve their country was proposed in
the form Of the selective draft law,
Senator Gore raised his voice in
speech against it, trying to prevent
America from defending herself and
the world by raising an adequate
army for her protection, And now
the fllmsy, trifling, far.fetched ex-
cuse which he gives for voting against
the one great measure which more
than anything else enabled America
to do her part in winning the war,
is the alleged fact that this law was
not so framed as TO draft into the
trenches certain men in the house
of congress whom Senator Gore was
apparently very anxious TO see as q
target for bullets.
The selective draft law which he
voted against them. provided for draft
ing only men between the ages of
q and 81 and yet he says he voted
against il because it did not include
and the official records will show
that there was not a single congress.
man In the United States under 81
years of age al the time Of his vote
against the law.
Again, after the selective draft law
had been overwhelmingly adopted by
the votes of all the loyal democrats
and republicans, he again sought to
make that law ineffective by introduc-
ing a resolution in the senate Of the
United States in August, 1917 (see
p. 1916, Congressional Record, 1st
session, 65th congress) the following
amendment to the revenue bill;
That until congress otherwise pro-
vides, no part of the moneys raised
or received under the authority OF
this act or otherwise shall be accept
ed, expended or used, either directly
or indirectly, to transport over the
seas any citizen of the United States
drafted into the military service there
of, unless such citizen shall also have
volunteered for such service over the
seas"
The effect Of this amendment as
proposed by Senator Gore would have,
if adopted, entirely stopped the oper-
alton Of the selective draft law and
paralyzed all preparations for the rails
ing of an army and sending it over
seas until a soviet vote could have
been taken and each soldier polled as
to his desires for or against service
in France.
Our American army would have
been in the same ridiculous plight as
the Russian army under soviet rule,
who voted by companies whether or
not 10 fight and who opened wide
gaps in the Russian battle line 10
let in the German armies where the
Russian reds had voted TO lay down
their arms and march back home.
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