Show When Americans Are Guilty of Treason It it f i is natural that lo loyal al Ame Americans icam fr indignant at t the discourtesy discourtesy dis dis- dis- dis ambassador It t l' l is is J natural nat nat- at- at courtesy shown this nation by the Austrian a bf U OI V and of both Austrians Austrian ural lira I that they the arc riled up tip by the attempts Germans to disturb domestic conditions in t this is land in in the interest o of th the central powers at war var have native na na- na But Rut we wc must remember that in in republic we seen tive five born horn Americans calling themselves loyal l do 10 more harm to the nation DatiOn than all the ambassadors Irom foreign countries tries can ever ver do WE Vl HAVE VE SEEN OUR UR NATIONAL IJA LAWMAKERS 1 MILLIONS IONS INTO PORK BARREL BARRETa WHILE WIlliE THEY DE- DE GLARED THE THE COUNTRY COUNTRY WAS VAS TOO POOR TO BUILD A NAVY THAT rHA T COULD COMPETE COl WITH THE TIlE NAVIES OF IMPORTANT IMPORT IMPORT- ANT NT POWERS We Ve have seen communities clamor for this stolen mone money ney w Va v ve TC e have seen voters reward the very men who robbed the thc national treasury treasur by electing re-electing them merely thc they saw f that the the boys boys bos Back jack home were remembered when the pie was cut The people are not blameless for present eon conditions of The voters have not insisted on strict honesty and I I business busine f principles at Washington FOR GENERATIONS HA HAVE VB SUPPORTED rH THE TUE E MEN IEN WHO VHO WOULD BRING BACK THE HE MOST SPOILS FOR THE HOME HOl FOLKS I 1 Warren of T Wyoming made votes by getting appropriations running to o for a small smaIl a army m post He got got-an a appropriation tion of for a federal building in a village so Collier Colher's s has told us He did other things to please the V Wyoming o ning voters while looting the national treasury of money that should have haye been spent for building a big Jut navy VJ I Was Vas he any more guilty than the other senators who A VOTED r FOR THE APPROPRIATIONS 7 1 T Tile They e voted with him because they wanted him t to vote ote with them for similar extravagances The whole system has been wrong and anI the voters arc largely L fo fa o blame They hav have looked with favor upon a national lawmaker lawmaker lawmaker law law- maker who could get some of tho the nations nation's money ioney for h his s state r re regardless of his us loyalty to the republic as a whole The hour has come for all an of us to pa pay the penalty Now we wend find nd the United States in a position of a man who is being eing grossly while the fo formers former's merR is in sl sling i insulted by a bully while arm am iii l a ng We have been pro prodigal with QUI our great wealth We Ve have have- wasted asted millions minions in rotten politics while our nav navy went forward ata at a pace r- r Now we have to be firm and should be in iii a position m mr to m make ke uy offender tremble at our anger But But our our fighting arm is in ina p a ailing sling Hereafter we must look upon pon pork barrel banel politics as nothing less JeS than treason whether it is s the community that is guilty or the lawmaker In the current iRs issue le of Colli Colliers Collier's rs r's Weekly there is a cartoon that i illustrates e the situation perfectly A congressman is handing the contents of a pork barrel to a little fellow named Constituency Under e the cartoon are these words PRIMARY CAUSES L' L t Every constituent who dem demands ands and every congressman n who t r m-r turn for votes offers offer pork at the expense of pur our natio national al welfare elfare contributes directly to the national humiliation and d dar dan ln ger which are even now in pro cess of development r. 1 |