The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-28
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mouths of those who conducted the
Spanish-American war to indulge in
the luxury of criticism.
Referring to- congressional fnvesti-
cations by smelling committees he
said that over eighty investiga tions
have been made, over two million dol
lars wasted and the result has been
to prove that it was the cleanest war
ever fought in the history of civiliza-
ton"
Republicans IncorrigibIe.
The Republican party became so
fixed in it's incorrigible habit of con-
Quoting investigations that it finally
turned to the fruitful task of investi-
eating itself. They discovered fraud
and graft and gross and inexcusable
expenditures. The revelations dis
close the fact that the meeting at Chi
cago was not a convention but an auc-
ton. The highest bidder, however. did
not get the prize. The publicity which
overlook the proceedings frustrated
the initial purpose. The Chicago con-
vention left the Democratic party as
the sole custodian of the honor of the
country"
Peace achievements of the Demo,
cratic party, he asserted. freed the
farmer from the deadening effects of
usurious financial control. Labor was
given its Magma Charta of liberty
Business and finance were released
from the thralldom of uncertainty and
hazard.
THE income tax law" he said. ere
lieVed our law of the reproach of be-
ing unjustly burdensome to the poor.
The eXtravaganees and inequities of
the tariff system were removed and a
nonpartisan tariff commission Gre
ated. Pap-Americanism was encour-
aged and the bread thus east upon the
waters came back to US many fold.
Alaska was opened to commerce and
development. Dollar diplomacy was
destroyed. A corrupt lobby was driven.
from the national capitol. An eff
fectfve seaman's act was adopted. The
federal trade commission was created
child labor legislation was enacted.
The parcel post and the rural free de-
livery were developed. A good roads
bill and a rural credits act were
passed. secretary of labor was Civ
en- seat in the cabinet of the presi-
dent. Eight hour laws were adopted.
| The Clayton amendment to the Sher-
| man antitrust act was passed. free
ing American labor and taking it from
| the list of commodities. The Smith
/ Lever bill for the Improvement of ag-
| ricultural conditions was passed. A
corrupt practices act was adopted A
| well considered warehouse act was
passed. Federal employment bureaus
were created. Farm loan banks
I
reserve system were established
| The federal reserve system, passed
over the opposition of the leaders of
the Republican party. enabled Amer
lea to withstand the strain of war
without shock or panic and ultimately
made our country the greatest creditor
nation of the world"
G. O. p. Record Barren.
Turning to the record of the Re
! publican congress since 1918, Mr.
| Cummings said it was barren of
achievement, shameless in waste of
time and money and without parallel
for its incompetencies, failures and re-
quotations"
President Wilson'S two appeals be-
fore congress for legislation dealing
with profiteering. reduction of taxa
ton, aid for soldiers and laws to i'm
prove relations of capital and labor
were ignored, he declared, and after
a year of sterile debate our country
! has-neither peace nor reconstruction"
He dwell particularly on attacks
made upon the president. Malice fol-
lowed him to the peace table, he said,
and wide spread propaganda made it
imperative when he returned from
Paris to make a struggle for that
which had been won at incalculable
cost. This meant wreck of health,
sickness for months on a bed of pain
and worse. the sickness of heart which
comes from the knowldge that peliti-
cal adversaries are savagely destroy
ing not merely the work of mems
hands, but the worlds hope of settled
peace. This was the afflietion-this
the crucifixion."
Mr.. Cummings continued that in
one sense 1T is quite immaterial what
people say about the president. Moth
ing We can say can add or detraci
from the fame that will flow down the
I unending channels of history
He cited the Republican and Pro-
vessive platforms of 1915 as. part OF
the record placing this country in
favor of the League of Nations.
Throws Down Gauntlet
The Republican platform contains
a vague promise to establish another
or a different form of association
he said There is no mentaf dis
honesty more transparent that that
which expresses fealty to a legue o.
nations while opposing the only league
that exists or is ever apt to exist
What nations stand outside
Revolutionary Mexico, Belshevist Rus
sia, unspeakable Turkey and-tht
United States.
III 1T is not yet too late. Let us stand
with the forces of civilization Ths