Republican farmer., 1920-07-02

the situa ton if we had not established a, currency system which made it pos sble for us to finance the war?
 What would have been the situation if the Republican Party had been in
 control and had maintained it's old
 attitude toward legislation? There
 would have been an inevitable break
 ing down of the economic structure of our country. We would have been
 caught in the throes of a panic more devastating than any we had ever known. Industrial life would have
 been disorganized and the tasks of war, difficult as they were, might then have become altogether impossible. The Republican Record Since 1918. The Republicans have now been in control of the Senate and the House for more than a year. They won the election of 1918 upon the faith of alluring promises. They said that they would earnestly support the President, at least, until the tasks of ] war were finished. It was their con- tention that they would enter upon the work of reconstruction with sa-
 perior intelligence and even with greater patriotism than would be possible under Democratic leader ship. They gave publicity, when | they entered upon the recent session, to detailed and ambitious statements as to their program. If we are to be judged, as hope We may be, by the record, let them also be judged by the record. What have the Re- ] publicans accomplished since their political success in 1918 What bene- icial results have flowed to the l American people? What promises have been redeemed? What pro- 1 gress has been made in the settle | ment of foreign or domestic ques- tions?
 i Twice the President went before l Congress, since the termination of hostilities, calling attention to needed 1 legislation. He urged the passage ! Of laws relating to profiteering; 1 measures to simplify and reduce | taxation; appropriate action relative l to the returning soldiers; the passage 1 of resolution concerning the cor, structive plans worked out in detail 1 DS loi1HeT secretary Lane, ana the 1 measures advocated by the Secretary 1 of Agriculture He suggested that l the Congress take counsel together | and provide legislation with refer i ence to industrial unrest, and the mu- 1 tual relations of capital and labor. l After more than a year of sterile de- i bate, our country has neither peace
 nor reconstruction. Barren of achieve
 ment, shame eless in waste of time and J 1 Congress is without parallel for it's
 incompetencies, failures and repudia- tions. Are the American people so
 unjust or so lacking in discrimina- tion that they will reject the service of a party which has kept it's word
 and place trust in a party which
 merely renews the broken promises of 1 q previous campaign?
 Attacks Upon the President.
 Republican leaders have been mov- ed by strange and inexp1icable jeasousy of the President Their l feverish anirn osity, expressed in
 gross abuse and through secret in- 1 trigue, has been productive of one
 of the most unhappy chapters in
 American history, recalling the sim
 liar experiences of Lincoln and Wash
 ington- Political malice followed
 the President to the Peace Table. A
 Senatorial round robin was widely
 circulated. Every device which
 partisanship could develop, was em-
 ployed for the purpose of weakening
 the influence of our Commission at Paris, and making the task there still more difficult. At time when every 1 instinct of fairness pleaded for a who1e-hearted support of the Presi- dent, political antagonism and per- sonal envy controlled the anti-Ad- ministrat ton forces
 The President made every sacrifice for the cause of peace. The 1ons
 continued strain while composing
 differences abroad; the expenditure of nervous vitality and intellectua | force in building a new order of hu. lman relationships upon the ruins o1
 the old, laid heavy toll upon his re-
 serve powers. Then came the return
 in triumph, only to find here wide
 spread propaganda of opposition ! making it imperative that he take LII
 in his own country, a struggle for tht
 preservat ton of that which had beer won at such incalcu1able cost. Fol
 lowing the superhuman labors of sew n en years of unexamp1ed service thi q meant the wreck of his health sick s ness for months upon a bed of pain e and worse than the physical sickness n the sickness of heart which come ;. from the knowledge that political ad d versaries, lost to the larger sense O e things. are savagely destroying no
 l merely the work of mems hands, bu = the worlds hope of settled peace e This was the .affliction-t7ais the cruc r idxion.
 S As he lay stricken in the Whit, n House, the relentless hand of malic n beat upon the door of the sick cham e Der. The enemies of the Presiden n upon the floor of the Senate repeate'