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Show PROTECT HEFLIN. Animated by a spirit of patriotism and a desire to see that his government shall not be handicapped in the midst of war. Representative Heflin dared to express suspicion of his fellow members, although he admitted that his evidence ! j was vague. Immediately a crv went up that ho prove his tharges or be expelled ex-pelled from the house. There should be no question of expulsion ex-pulsion from the house whether he prove his charges or not. This is not the time to impose penalties on patriotism. Among tho men at whom Heflin has pointed the finger of suspicion is Senator Sen-ator La Follette; another is William E. Mason of Chicago. 'Both hope to stay in political life by truckling to the Ger man vote of their states. Is it any more corrupt to accept money as a bribe than office as a bribe? In the throes of war, when our future fu-ture is at stake, no rule of ethics or of honor requires us to go about with an atomizer sprinkling perfume on men who, by their anti-Americanism, have become a stench in the nostrils of their countrymen. And Representative Heflin Hef-lin should not be regarded as an outcast out-cast because he has had the nerve to question tho loyalty of those who are sworn to support the constitution. If they are innocent they can clear themselves them-selves with ease, but that will not en-, title them to demand the expulsion of Heflin from the house. In normal times no one would support Heflin in making charges which were unsupported by the strongest evidence; but in war times he is justified in doing as he has done and the people of the United States will not permit the enemies he has made to obscure the issue by protesting virtue and clamoring for his destruction. |