The Coconino sun., 1920-06-18

1 do so. But our country is a one man country and we all have money to burn. The ten billion dollar war debt with it's immense interest still unpaid is but small matter to us, and if it is cancelled the taxpayers will glee- fully go down into their pockets for more cash.
 "We agree that there might be some doubts as to whether the demo- cratic party really is, after all, the party of the people and the poor, and that those who accuse us of catering to the moneyed interests under that most preposterous article called the league of nations, might be nearer correct than we have heretofore ad- mitted. And we do agree that we had fondly hoped to jeopardize the future of American boys by keeping them forever across the seas, policing, pa trolling, protecting alien interests un- der this so-called league of nations.
 "We are proud to say that incon- sistency is one of our most treasured jewels. Before the public had forgot ten that Secretary Baker demanded an immense standing army to dis charge our obligations under the league of nations, Secretary Daniels declared that if we didn't swallow the league of nations and swallow it right now, we would have the biggest navy in the world. We do admit in all ser iousness that this reminds us of the funny man in the circus who always tells us that if he doesn't make us | laugh he will be fired and that if he does make us laugh he will be dis charged.
 "Let us felicitate ourselves because of the fun we have had with the farm CTS, the very backbone of the country We fixed the price of their wheat and 1 then left them at the mercy of every profiteer from whom they were com pelled, at any price. to buy their farm materials and supplies in order that they might raise our food, and under the wartime policy of get-all-you- and give nothing in-return, the farm CT is letting his land lay out unculti- vated for lack of his ability to secure help at price that he can afford to pay.
 "We hereby pledge ourselves to the idea that Washington is just an old back number and that hereafter we must be tied up with all the countries of the world in way that will keep us fighting their battles and paying their bills for the rest of our natural or unnatural existence.
 eve point with pride to our treat ment of the disabled soldiers and sail ors whom we promised to rehabilitate and to place in vocational schools for training, to the end that they might again become self-supporting. After two years of spending money on sal aries and excessive publicity, the voca- tional board had prepared only 250 of these disabled boys for wage earning positions and out of the 300,000 who were maimed and lamed and blinded in the defense of their country, only 25 ,0O0 have been admitted to training, though 100000 out of the 300, ,000 ap- piled for this training. We admit that we have done our best to make these crippled heroes feel themselves to be paupers and beggars in trying to avail themselves of the training which the republican congress sought, by liberal appropriations, to provide for them.
 "It is but fitting that, at this great democratic national convention we point with pride to some of the things this present administration has kept us out of. First of all, it kept us out of war. Mir. Burleson kept us out of mail. The censors withheld the news. To our great president, himself, much of the credit is due that we are kept out of sugar and an exaggerated sense of ego has kept us out of peace.
 We declare ourselves in favor of lifetime terms for democratic presi- dents and in case we elect the presi- dent next November, we pledge our selves to use every means in our DOW CT to not only keep him there for life, but to secure the right for him to name his own successor, and in case he should become i'll and unable to perform his duties, the business of the country shall cease. And, further more, should the mind of cabinet member fail to run along with the supreme thinking of the president, said cabinet member shall immediate ly be asked to resign.
 Tn the meantime let us proclaim louder and more loudly that there is not, after all, any real difference in the two big parties.
 But let us also confess and admit that March does not always go out, like lion or come in like a lamb. | and that we have sort of present. ment that March, 1921, will, in all probability, come marching in like the | c. o. P. elephant. In which case we can always look pious and say. Why | doesn't the republican administration do something Loudly and more | loudly must we proclaim and exclaim as we watch it gradually and labor iously, steadily and surely bring this country up and from out of this pres ent democratic mess and put it back to | the old-time safe, sane, solid founda- tion that was built for it on the princi ples to which the C. o. P. has ever ad- l hered."