The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-08-09

tain you in making this charge On
the other hand. the man you say we
soldiers should vote for, Mr.. Hubert
ID. Stephens, four months after we
mad actually been engaged in war,
arose from his seat in the lower
house OF the National Congress, at a
time when Germany had the Allies
on the run. and offered a resolution
to the effect that steps be taken by
the President. to bring the war to
an end. (See Congressional Record
65th Congress, First Session, August
Attn, 1917. page 5S14.) This act on
the part OF the candidate you tell the
soldiers they should vote for was the
most substantial encouragement to
the enemy offered during the war.
by any man serving in the legisla-
tive department of the government.
Hubert D. Stephens, / am told, was
twenty-five years old when the
Spanish-American War began, single
and a member Of college football
team, being noted for his vigor and
strength. He was forty-two wears
old when was was declared against
Germany. and within the draft age
yet, ne never donned a uniform. Var
aaman was poor and had a wife and
nVe children, yet we find him in the
'front.' line. trenches in the Spanish
american war and Notwithstanding
ne was nfty-stx years old, Mr.. Var
daman offered his services In the late
war. Stephens may suit YOU as a
patrtet, but am one veteran of the
world war that is not going to be
SWeDt off NV foot h., a..
warriors.
/ believe that if Senator vardaman
Is returned to the United States
senate ne will tear the conscript law
from the statute books and eliminate
the hazard Of Americans being forced
INTO future European melees. He
VIII be staunch advocate of the
NO MORE WAR MOVE. If there
Is anything that America and Mis-
sissippi needs at this hour, Il Is men
IN the national Congress who have
me moral courage to night against
future foreign entanglements.
oppose future conscription. not
because am the victim of con-
Scrlption, but because think II NOR
ally and politically wrong. lost
my right leg on the battIe-helds Of
france in the battle or Cantignv.
winch was blown off up to my very
oodys and lay in the hospitals of
Beauvis and Paris with gangrene for
seven months and suffered as l did
not believe any man could suffer and
I'VE, but was shot down as a vol
unteer and not as a conscript. Let
ne say, however, that there were
thousands upon thousands of Amer
can boys who were conseripted and
fought oversee who were lust as
brave and noble, and honorable as
any volunteer who ever lived. That
s not the argument. Conscrfption
s wrong and the world war veterans
know it.
Mr.. Sullens, I do not want to be
harsh but am going to take occa-
ZION to say right here that l ara GET
ing tired Of you fellows who term
yourselves as, Comrades of the Col
1rs' trying to dictate to the real
soldiers. You know nothing about
he suffering of the men who tramp
I'd the battiefelds of Europe. You
never smelled any kind of powder in
'our life except talcum powder, and
had no use for the spurs you wore
turing the war except to keep your
leels from slipping off the table
while you reared back in your swi-
rel chair. 1t is widely known that
'ou arranged through your friend
Iohn Sharp Williams for a Captains
commission that would keep you in
while you acted as cor
for your own paper and
irew the salary of a captain out of
he United States treasury. Yes,
'our kind, of soldier believes in war
md boldly asserts that you don't
ARE how soon we have another one.
have never voted for Vardaman
'efore, but 1 am going to do 50 this
ime solely for the reason that be-
ieve he has proven himself the real
riend of the soldier every time the
opportunity presented itself. Your
riend John Sharp Williams, whom
'Ir. Stephens says he will initiate IL
he is sent to the Senate, blocked the
)onus bill when IL came before that
)ody the other day and announced
hat he would take steps to kill II
very time 1t came up, so long as he
in Congress. Yes, we
ought, or thought we fought, to pre-
erve the civilization of the world,
dr. Sullens, but we were largely led
o that idea by the things you and
'ther American newspapers said, but
We little dreamed that when we had
ought and bled and won the war
md come back home, that you would
aud the man who stood on the floor
II the United States Senate and
blocked our rights, at a time, and
lnder conditions that thousands Of
he noble heroes of the war were row.
ng this country as tramps without
/ job and without dollar.
When my consciousness came back
o me on the battlefelds of France
Ind found that my right leg was
70 badly mangled that 1t necessita-
ed amputation at the hip, / was a
mere boy and had not reached my
four thousand miles OF
and and water separated me from
ny parents and I thought, and
hought seriously, and / promised
ny God If He would spare my life
md let me go back to the land Of
ny nativity, that I would try In the
'uture to be the kind of fellow He
wanted me to be and let the truth be
ny guide. Mr.. Sullens, / do hope
fou and / have met the same God and
hat He has touched our hearts in the
lame way and that you and l will
come to know that truth is one Of
Gods choicest treasures and that no
nan can serve his God and wilfully
N nfqronracanf his failoW man
Very sincerely.
LOUIS MOORE,
Corporal Company !, 2Sth Inf. A.E.F.