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Show Women Suffrage And Prohibition, Senator Brandegee has views of his own on the above topics and expresses r them in' these words: - 1 "You can-not win this w.ar by talking about Woman suffrage or prohibition. We won every war we over weivj1 I in without woman suffrage and prohibition. The wars1 f 1776 and ,1812 and the Mexican war and the War of 1800 and the Spanish-American war, and there were ho ' pink-tea parties talking about putting pink chemises on the men arid Plymouth Rock pants on the women. The women do not propose to go over in the trenches abroad and do the fighting. It is the men who have got to do that. Instead of bleating around here about their saving democracy by forcing their way into caucuses and conventions, con-ventions, they had better go homo and knit bandages and pjok lint and get ready to take care of their brothers and sons and fathers who are going to be shot to pieces in the trenches abroad. "Mr. President, take the boy in the trenches "over there , standing all night in two feet of ice water, with 'orders m hjs pocket to "gp over 'the top" in the cold, gray 'dawn in a chilly bog, to put his unprotected body up sr j against shot and shrapnel and machine guns and poison- y i ous gas, in addition to frozen feet, and they say "they are- " 'gk .going to 'fill his belly full of ice water before he starts as ' '$m a moral stimulus 'to him. It is perfectly absurd. Every army abroad gives its mena drink of something to ex- .$$ panel the cockles of the heart before they go up against w& the cold, blue steel, and it may be the last one the poor - J devils will ever get. Yet you would think that this war ml is going.to be won by such fads and fancies and frills as' P that. 1 "Now let us "get down to brass tacks'' and win this fl war. Let us find -out the facts and let us .investigate all ". I these irregularities in a nonpartisan way and report to '1 the representatives of the people and theri let theih pro- ,1 nounce the verdict;" r m M |
