The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-09-27

ing of the National Executive Com
mittee, which adopted resolution
condemning the attempt in the United
States Senate to pass q measure that
would conscript alone the man power
of the nation in event Of war.
The Legion points to the fact that
for ten years the organization has been
urging the enactment of what Is known
as the Universal Draft Act to make
certain that in the future there shall
be no profiteers and no slackers ana
that the entire nation shall be moDil-
lied for a national defense, and that
now is the time to pass this legislation.
I'VE urge immediate consideration
and enactment into law of the Reed
Wainwright resolution which VIII
carry this into effect" Commander
McNutt said. Mobilization OF the
manhood of the country, ignoring the
wealth and industry necessary Tor
success, means that the lessons OF the
great war and the sacrifices made have
been forgotten. Pass the Reed-Wain-
wright resolution"
In his fearless editorial on the SUBJ
ject Lands said:
'The American Legion is eternally
right to condemn the consumption bill
now in the United States Senate for
that bill does not provide for the con-
scription of industry and wealth; It
provides only the CONSUMPTION OF
soldiers, leaving those who stay at
home the opportunity to make unlimit-
ed blood money.
ct is a colossal infamy for a ma
ton to let some get rich while others
get killed, yet this has been the
custom of all nations, and wars have
always brought forth the heroes and
the hogs.
Even back in our American revolu-
ton, while Washington's army was
destitute, the grafters were picking
the very bones of liberty and WASH
ington regretted that he could not
hang them one and all.
"Our World war CONSUMPTION was a
foul scandal, surprising in its infamy
million times all Fall and Sinclair
ever did, for we conscripted men and
let money run amuck
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the sons of the rich and the infuen-
tial were rarely conscripted, while the
sons of the poor were taken. I'VE
remember also that huskies who were
permitted to escape the draft were
allowed to make twelve and fifteen
dollars per day in the ship yards while
their physical interiors were fighting
rats, coolies and Huns for thirty
dollars per month. Dempsey, then
heavyweight champion of the world,
escaped the draft while hollow chest
ed gentlemen were made to go. "Bloody
millionaires were spawned like flies,
yet when it was proposed to do our
defenders the scant justice of return
ing to them the money they had
actually lost while fighting for the
United States, the mercenary element
of American called that legislation
"the bonus bill" and it was defeated.
1--WE made our soldiers pay us for
the privilege of being killed and
crippled! '"They were rolling in mud
while we were rolling in wealth. "As
they put on their masks to keep from
being gassed, we put on our far-seeing
glasses to note the latest chance to
graft. From the lowest who worked
with his hands to the highest who
grated with his wits, it was plumber.
Patriots at the front and pirates at
home that's your beautiful war. "We
promised to stop it you know, this
building of fortunes upon the bones
of men; we said this last infamy
never could be repeated and every
president from Harding down has de-
clared for universal CONSUMPTION, but
this effort to pass bill conscripting
soldiers alone gives the lie to the
governments sincerely. 'Let this con-
gress pass this bill, laying it's hand
upon the shoulders of five million boys,
yet never touching wealth or industry
and the fight is lost.
"Those, behind this CONSUMPTION bill
will say: Pass this measure and we
will pass the bill conscripting wealth
and industry later on but that is
only apple sauce. Pass universal con-
scription now or pass no CONSUMPTION!
eff in time of war, all of us can not
give all we have, then we are not
republic; we are only hog pen and
the sooner we are taken over by for
eign power, the better it will be-,