Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-11 | Page 1 | Kenyon Asks for Vigorous Warfare

SENATOR KENTON of Iowa, -who urges vigorous prosecution of the war, after returning from the front. i e. $ ? V" ' Y 1 i I ? 5 V 1 ' I' A. V""' KrJl ASKS FOR I0W1I1 Senator Suggests Joalition Cabinet to Include Rdot and Roosevelt. WASHINGTON", Jan. 0. Senator Kenyon, "who recently returned from a visit to the French front and to England, En-gland, today warned the senate against Germany's peace offers and stories that the country was exhausted. ''N'othing could assist Germany more," he declared. "Thoso who are trying to help in bringing about a patched-up peace and leud their influence influ-ence in that direction are weakening the American forces, weakening American Amer-ican preparation,'' he said, "and they had best to remember that, it will cost us more now to lose this war than to win it." Senator Kenyou in relating his experiences expe-riences said that what he had seen in France had amused him to such a pitch that he wished the kaiser might be compelled to be at sea in an opfn boat that was being shelled, that the palaces pal-aces of the German ruler might be blown up and that he might be placed where bombs dropped around him during dur-ing a London air raid. Pointing to tho fact that it took England En-gland two years or more to got ready to fight he" declared there was no reason rea-son for the gloom in this country now, but "the saddest words this nation can ever write if it fails in this emergency by reason oli delay will be the word's ' Tnn late. ' "We must bring to the western front two million men and have a million in reserve." Senator Kenyon declared. "We must do it as quickly as possible. pos-sible. We must cut red tape; stop quarreling about the guns and like things, and carry this thing through on business-like principles. Is it not possible for each individual in this country to quit thinking about what someone else does and resolve to do everything he can do? It is not enough to do our bit. We must do onr best. There is too much grandstanding and limelighting; too much patriotic posing and not enough sacrifice." "Out of this war will comp great things to our people. We will have no hyphenated Americanism in this country. coun-try. It is not a time for partisanship nor politics and I may say it is no time ' for inefficiency in any departments o" our government." Senator Kenyon said that in this "spirit of non-partisanship" he would like, to see a coalition cabinet including EHhu Root and Theodore Roosevelt and that the service of William H. Taft might be used in some of the commissions commis-sions sent abroad.