The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-09-17
,IIIlEF MORGAN ASSA|LS COX FOR
HIS APPEAL FOR LAN|LESS SUPPORT

in England and Russia, during visits 10
those countries and that she sympa-
thized with Russia in her effort 10
throw off the yoke .of autocracy
II was In Pctrograd IN 1911. sala
Mrs. porr. when machine guns were
stationed at every street corner ana
Lcnine and Trosky came into power with
their Bolsheviki. The people Of Russia
are very democratic, but these two men
have them by the throat. There Is no
free speech. no free assemblaGe, no
free press and no rights at all.
The only party :ha: grants all the
people a chance is the Republican party.
AZ this point Mrs. Dorr took up the
question of the high cost or living: She
fIeyed without mercy Secretary Of War
: Baker and said that the women OF Amer
lea are paying for his extravaganza.
Rents are driving people from their
homes in New York" said Mrs. Dorr
They are forced 10 store their furni-
turc and board. For an entire summer
we had to live on canned vegetables. The
dress have on was bought in 1914 and
has been made over several times. 50
that ! want you TO know That / as
woman have felt the pinch OF hard times.
| am mother and my children are
hard on shoes. Time was when could
buy a good pair of shoes for IS. Now
can't get them for $l4.
Son Needed Shoes
why all OF these conditions? Ask
overseas was in Russia and went to
France and there met my son. a dough-
boy. In the coolest of winter his feet
were through his shoes on the cold
snow. The first thing l did was TO buy
I'VE spent twenty billions Of dollars
during the war. II we choose to per-
petuRte such waste and high taxes we
must vote for the men now In office or
those who promise TO continue such tao
Pa a1f n q ~
never be guilty Of such thing.
Il attended a number OF the Senate
committee inquiries into the cxtrava-
| . '""r OF III" war department. since Mr..
Wilson and the Kaiser ceased TO keep US
out OF war.
We had little less than four million
men under arms. We had $4,000 horses
and mules. but OF these only 6T.94S were
945. 900 saddles or "a saddles for every
horse. Then he bought one m>lion sets
Of harness. or three for each horse; and
1850 spur straps. or thirty-stx for
each horse.
/, Baker bought 32.217.250 pairs of shoes.
or ten pairs of shoes for every man, yet
the men didn't have shoes on their feet
wien the armistiCe was signed. What
Be came Of those shoes. They were
standing in box cars on side tracks and
our war department ordered gasoline
poured on them and they were burned.
When some OF the Army officers pro-
tcsr ed at this crime, the war department
ordered the shoe sold to tho French at
, nifty cents a pair. hut here in America
oar men are forced to pay from seven TO
, ten dollars per pair.
SOLD Cheap In France
AT the outset OK the war We had four
thousand motor vehicles in the Army.
Mr. Baker never piked. not even after
the armistice was signed for 23,509
motor vehicles were ordered wrecked,
and tanks and aCeteylene torches were
used to scrap them. Some OF them were
sold to the French at one-ni:h Of their
cost. with ten years 10 pay.
Since the armiStiCe was signed the
war department. has ordered I0.l30 cars
at cost OF Sl75.500.n00. They have
been stored. exposed TO weather and are
now wrecked and ruined. The war de-
partment has employed $4,000 men at
a cost of 100000 a day TO watch these
cars 80 to ruin.
Here in West Virginia you have the
city Of Nitro. built at a cost OF SD