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Show TfiFT PUTS BRAND ON THE DEMAGOGUES Persons Who Seek to Stir Up Party Animosities Are Traitors, He Says. SPRINGFIELD, III., DCf. 29. Persons Per-sons who seek to stir up party animosities animosi-ties or appeal to class prejudices while the war goes on are "traitors,'' to the nation, "whether they know it or not,"' William Howard Taft, former president of the United States, declared here today to-day in an address before the .Midday .Mid-day Luncheon club. , "There may be injustices which mut be cured, but they can wait," he said. "They enn wait until we win that which will save us the boat in which w;e are riding on the sea. W'e are fighting fight-ing for our lives. "Now we are having investigations in "Washington that are showing de-fects, de-fects, investigations that are bringing home to us the difficulties that a republic re-public with the machinery of peace finds in becoming for a time a military nation able to measure swords with an adversary which has been preparing for filtv years to conquer the world, and we "niiist not withhold our expressions providing they are made in a proper spirit, but when you find men using arguments that are meant to be demagogic dema-gogic appeals, you can mark down the degree of their patriotism. ' ' |