The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-09-17
THE HIGH COST OF COL. BRYANGS
CHIN MUSIC


William Jennings Bryan is again ira
Yelling the chautauqua circuit Daily he
moves vast audiences to enthusiasm while
preaching the doctrines of pacifism and
unpreparedness. Colonel Bryan is not
one of those who would make disarma
ment mutual He is for Chinafying the
u. S. A. without awaiting the advice, con-
sent or emulation of any other nation
whatsoever.
This is a resumption of the crusade
Colonel Bryan was carrying on before
the war. Chautauqua audiences will not
forget what he told them then. The Col
onel said that preparedness for war by
the United States would get us into war;
remaining unprepared would get us out.
He said that all we would need in this
country in case of a war would be an ar
my of farmers in Fords, carrying corn
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Millions of people took seriously Col
onel organs talk of unpreparedness as a
sure preventative Of war on the lecture
platform, and his pledge during the cam
paign of 1916 that the reelection of Pres
ident Wilson, combined with unprepared-
ness, would keep us out of war. .deas5
The American people remained unpre-
pared, all right and they reelected Presi-
dent Wilson, Next they got war and paid
the penalty of unpreparedness for war.
Taking no steps toward putting the ma
ton in a state of military and naval de-
tense at time when our involvement in
the war was becoming increasingly GER
tain, because it would interfere with pub
lie belief in the he-kept- out-of-war
bunk the Wilson administration finally
got us into war under conditions which
cost billions of dollars and thousands of
lives that might have been spared except
for the game that the Bryans and Will
sons played on the people during the half
dozen wears prior to 1917.
What logical excuse is there for paving
any attention now to Colonel Bryan's
pacifistic arguments since they turned
out to be sohistical and tragically harm
full to the people of the United States?
How does Cononel Bryan have the face.
in view of what the people have been
throrgh since he promised them peace at
the price Of unpreparedness only five or
six years ago, to come around in the same
old crowds with the same old eloquence?
War has cost the American people more
since Colonel Bryan began talking
against it, and since his party got into
power on pacifist platform, than it had
in all the century and third Of our ma
tionaR history, before the argument was
first made that we were "too proud 10
fight" @ "''a '5t '- "
Colonel Bryan's eloquence costs the
American people good deal of money
he takes in many thousands in gate re-
ceipts every year. But the American
people could wei afford to pay him many
times as much just to keep still His or
atory cost the American people MANY
hundreds of millions during the world
war for undoubtedly his was the largest
responsibility for the failure of the Am
erican government to get ready for the
participation in the world war and every
sensible man knew we were in for, after
President Wilson adopted his policy Of
watchful waiting and desultory drifting
at G time when the only way to keep out
OF touble was to have a policy and en-
force it.
Now that we are paving the fiddler in
billions, someone might try to figure out
just how much Colonel Bryan's chin mu-
sic has cost the American people. And