Show f I 11 i A And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave wac I I 0 Ocr Cl the land of the lie free and the the home borne of the brave I S For America First I IT T remained for Senator Stone of Missouri to divert I Congress flOm the thc regular order of business and t partisan nn politics to first place on the calendar And while the country at nt lar large e will ill wish that Mr Ir Stone had ad applied hi his energetic oratory rJ to urge a a. more vigorous vigor or ous ails and md practical prosecution of the war wal it is s also 1150 jO joy joy- joyously i reminded rem that Theodore Roosevelt dt patriot and andL andI 1 L I great American is n a it vital l throbbing n force furce for good in inthe in inthe M the perilous times through h which we are passing For or It while Senator Stones Stone's intention as yas to cat cast t. t aspersion Ii on un Mr 1 noose Roosevelt his attack has only served to lo hrin bring Roosevelt doser closer to the rank and file of the the American Amedean 1 1 people who ho have h absolute faith in him as as' as a 1 man whose Americanism has hus m never mer er been heen successfully questioned It will be remembered that while Senator Stono was vas s showing the white feather of pacifism sm and the black feather of or Theodore Roosevelt was I II I wearing the red badge of courage o and urging statesmen fall parties to forget forjet politics and md stand behind the President Pr for successful and vigorous prosecution of the thear war ar It IL will be remembered that when rhen Senator Stone was eing huu in effig in Washington for opposing the I Presidents President's war plans Theodore no Roosevelt It e was doing his hit to lo arouse public opinion to the absolute necessity neres- neres 1 sity jt of If f defending American rights ri against o the insults anti and assaults of Germany It will also 11 be lie remembered that while Senator Stone Slone w was i IS s directing his oratorical fire on Theodore Roosevelt f four mour l. l of Mr 11 noo Roosevelt's e s 's sons son were in tho service sen three of them on the firing line in Flanders facing the Geran Ger- Ger an foe and md that the administration refused ed to accept Mr Roosevelt's Hoose proffer of his own services ser Theodore Roosevelt is too big an American and too much a n. patriot to nee l any my extended defense against Mr r. r tone attack It is unfortunate however er ut t the I administration on ha has seen een fit to open ojen a 1 political campaign n j II at It a time when the thc country i is demanding and needing a n aI I rc vigorous prosecution of the war var From the begin begin- I nin Jiing ning President Wilson's Wilsons rg s war program has had J euill fully ulI unanimous support from the thie Republican members j S o of Congress res who took the time bro broad d American view vj that J they should be he for America first r rather than parl party parly I 1 t. t v Thc c same statesmen n arc are still standing behind the time I President for a 11 program prU that will get ct us in the war var war and rind fH finish i h it it but they are arc not subscribing to n a lol policy cy tI that t places political ill incompetents at th time the heads head of d departments departments depart depart- part part- ments and I keeps them there regardless of the time east in American n ni l lives lins ies and money The Time President is giving iving entirely en en- too much h attention to tu politics him himself df lie has j adopted too many incompetents in his official lj i rather ancl than t an admit his mistake e ho lie attempts to white white- hitcH H blunders Baker Nolt Now No jj Ii wash ash such costly as ns Secretary I OAt lt Senator Stone has thrown own down own time the political gauntlet gaunt gaunt- aunt aunt- j h let lct the matter must necessarily be he threshed out and j should if-should he lie made quite plain to the time administration j J and his as associates that this thus is an American war J and the time time for political trifling u is past if we are arc to lo 11 hold hoM time the confidence and res respect pl C t of or our allies The Time President cut has invited criticism repeatedly 1 1 by his firm finn refusal to correct the mistakes he lie made JUHle when Democratic spellbinders yelling ng from every C stump I lie He He kept us out nit of war var There is such a t thing as I patriotic criticism and we wc have e come to tu a shameful condition condition condition con con- of when we tolerate the bungling bun lin methods methods meth meth- och of Bd Bar r and Garfield because official ashington I has bas pa passed ed the time word down the line that to tu criticise is treason That insidious doctrine is being fostered by bythe bythe bythe the ambitious politicians who are arc close to the President ent The time has hag come to call a spade a spade If government govern govern- ment officials arch areto are to be permitted J to sacrifice human lives Ih-cs and shake the foun foundations of ur s IH business S for the chief of holdin holding their jobs job and anel jus just t criticism of such acts ets are arc barred ur d then we may as well vell borrow Senator Stones Stone s white fla CIao r and place it in imi the time han hands ls of time the 1 Goddess of Liberty as 35 a signal ignal to the world that our Ii Ii blood runs ruins cold COIl and anel our livers arc are yellow But if weare we we nr nie to place I th he lime welfare w of the time nation 1 above Ge G e selfish h party polities politics and amid pacifist propaganda i wo we will wil make short work of Senator Stones Stone's attempt 3 t the water waters that thul were ere already murky and amid for forthe forthe I the Hie common good we will not hesitate to demand that r be he reduced to the time minimum even eu at the theLt Lt of heil being called unconscious traitors hr by selfish pi pir pi- pi r ii rates Wilson will rihl be lie a mich greater statesman states states- t man l n when he admits the time errors of the time past and heeds I the insistent demands of his countrymen to dr drive e the numskulls out ont of his official family and call to his as- as 4 men who who mire arc able to str strengthen his adminis- adminis Eli i U of the war |