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Show I I , IS POLITICS ADJOURNED I Hon. Ir.G.,Hereey of JWntTte'oppoB-. W cenVpilJla,theb0Y!ft8tion-In : ilegWdiWttohe . r Commerce aridWhono ' j the Onius undr thi. bill WmmMg : . . jointatotdtttih19 ItfaUQ'ttaitam - i&neiwp tljenhey, will nliw , , NowTlwS say that I do not oppose .thiBbmdri'tiie'grtuiidthmtltiBviilg' SurSTl 'would hwre oppoaed:i Jafct'tije eame if suca bill were to come frqta th$ C . .RepubUcanpsurty. , I dotnot Uve these MP $ .govwawenfciouWrjuicAjto.furae H. & ,pftrtyi,ihQ,5nAIdonotbtve;taputgftg( 4 $ itemptatiQ Wort, the (xajmrta ! l u might forget that tt& hpd Hi fe beeri'4jj&rned & this qhgS ' j I ; "Is wfi tb'styih cottclMpntUeBe, ; 1 1 dttidarkeft'dayBln.thhiitbry, tf the ; 1 , ReptthHci The burden of 'the defetfser H f ! civuiMtion in a; great world war has'been i4' laid uoon the shoulder of this Nation. H ! 4 husfjfepaU ourjMourejJWe lnustT m. ;g txhiuf manpower, ,wji.mt tax our- 1. in thete dark days of the Nation's del- KBi" Unfit is no-timeto8pend witH aiavish Btr " and;rt5kimhnd:theiiar.c H M$ -, . of a parJentpeopl. This is notja'suitible P occfjiott.fQroie erection, of texjiensivet B 4, pubKc buildlntaand an enlargement on ( H :',:: a, vist scale, of bureaus and. departments M r.-A .in Washington. It is not the proper day ' ?: to greatly increase salaries or multiply M Vpp6rtunities.f or political jobs. At this H ;- ' hour, when the President has notified the H ft v avorld that "politics have been adjourned H .: -in the American Congress," it is a poor H timetopeMt.two.activeUticiansto H appoint over 200,000 political workers to H v be riiid'big salaries, out of the treasury sbH -W c-s'ol the United States and to be sent out K$i, - in to the Nation in the presidential cam- K;' y paign of 1920; to make the country safe Krf''- for the Democratic party. Letusbehoh- l.f est with 'each other and radjournM politics H in deed as well as in word and "save to B ': ;V iidnmby commencing here at the Capital H f , in Washington; . ' :'.;-:. "' L f " n B $ h? '."WENEEDMOpPUTNAMS B J ' . There areat least two representatives '.', of two "alleged neutral countries whose v m .'- - activities and conduct are hot above sus- M ?'"'v ypicion. Let us have more Americans in H 4 vthis war. Let us stop giving any infor- H ;' .mation to any nation or individual who H .-'?' pre not supporting the President, the ad- B ! piinistration,' and our country in fighting. H -'!'"' this war to the utmost of their ability. H '' ,The United States,, as well as Germany, H ' was a party to The Hague convention, H ';' ' . and that convention defined a spy to; be H 1 " One who, acting clandestinely or on H f false pretenses, obtains or seeks to ob- H ::r- tain, information in the zone of opera- Hijf tions of a belligerent with the intention H of communicating it to the hostile party. K:: In the last year there were many such H '':-:-.' criminals, and yet not one has been shot Hf or hung, so far aS'I have been able to as- H ' , certain. H'm-'. J This temporizing with lawlessness has H;K reached the limit, and Members of Con- HrV, gress at least should cease longer to tol- ':. era te it and to .place upon the statute B':! bcokl laws that would enforce this arti- ;4- cle of international law here in our coun- H ;'.'' Let us adopt as our motto the words H ' ' , .of the old Gen.' Israel Putnam, the Revo- . PpH; u . ?i. PPPPPi(BBawaMawawawwff?sw-J "" ' -,- lutionary patriot, who during the Revo-lutionarywar Revo-lutionarywar caught a British spy within with-in his lines and notified the British general gen-eral promptly ias follows: "I nave the honor to inform you that I have caught, one of your command within with-in the Ameriian, lines. He, was arrested as a spy, he will be tried as a spy, and if convicted he will be hangedvas,a,spy. f ,P.,SydHeL'ffft hWd'.t 4y to-. rwe need more Putnams on the job. Representative Johnson of Washington; -' iW Pi a.1"1 li-ANTIIFnCIENCY li-ANTIIFnCIENCY APPROPRU- " .Attention is especially directed-, to Jthe,; effort about to be made to attach the well known J'anti-ef f iciency" riders to appropriations approp-riations for the support of the; military establishment now pending. .The first of r measures, the Naval Appropriation ' bill ; reported to but not yet considered by the House,contaW thaifollowihg:'-' , - (Page771in9to22). .That w parti of 'the- appropriations made inthis act shall be available for the ' salary or pay cif .any , officer, (, manage v superintendent, If orenian. or Qtberperson havingcharge of .the work of 1 any employe em-ploye of the United States government, wwle" making eri causing ,to, be, made with a stopwatch or pther time measuring device de-vice a time study of , any job of -any such : employe between tha,startlhg and cont-pletion cont-pletion thereof, or, of the movemenea ef ; any sucir employe' while engaged . upon such work; nor shall any part of , the appropriations ap-propriations made in this Act be available )te pay any premium or bonus or; cash re: ward to any-employe In addition-to his regular swages, except ,for suggestions resulting'improyemehts or economy in the1 operation of lanxgovernment plant . " In' the-62nd,' '68.anCthtCpngres similar riderswW attached to the 'naval . military and1 suljdry civil bills, or one of them.' In the first sesslon'of the present Congress a like 'rider was attached to the . army-appropriation bill in the Hduse'ori '' .JFebruaryA 1917. bjr'a'vdtebfiri'nays to 106 ayes, although' the Committee -otf -MiUtary Affairs !of the House had stricken strick-en out the irider,by. a majority Vote ' All , such legislation was enacted 'in the face of the r emphatic (protest of the Chief of Ordnance and present Secretary of war. In the face of these prbtefltsihe.ppposi-tion prbtefltsihe.ppposi-tion of organised labor has been sufficient suffi-cient to enact these riders. In, Fe&T1917, the House for the first time engaged in a , shary discussion of the proposal on its ' merits. The Committee on Solitary Af - ! fairs ofiposed the rider and it was car-rieH car-rieH by a majority of but eight votes. ' Conditions have' now greatly changed. The nation is at war. To penalize methods meth-ods of securing efficiency in Government establishments is! to discourage and condemn con-demn like methods in private establishments. establish-ments. In our present critical situation thiavicous proposal becomes the symbol of Congressonal "acceptance or rejection of the most approved methods of stimulating stimu-lating producetion upon which the safety 1 of the nation may depend. The very forces which have hitherto objected to the payment of a premium or bonus, as a means of stimulating service have, through their accredited representatives, represen-tatives, demanded and received from the Shipping Board a 10 per cent bonus for .shipyard workers. ,Mr7 Stevens, a mera-wper mera-wper of ,the,bqard, testified before the Senate Sen-ate committee on Commerce that the payment pay-ment of the bonus involved the expenditure expendi-ture of substantially $65,000,000. Is it reasonable 'or defensible to demand anli accept a bonus or premium in one, department, depart-ment, of the Government and oppose or prohibit it in another- The very conduct of the proponents of this vicious rider.is the most powerful argument for its defeat de-feat This rider will undoubtedly be attached to the Army and other appropriation bills. Now is, therefore, the time to request re-quest your members and all patriotic citizens cit-izens interested in the efficient conduct of the war to clearly, -intelligently, emphatically em-phatically and immediately direct the attention at-tention of their- representative in the House or Senate to this proposal to condemn con-demn and penalize the use of any part of the Naval appropriation to pay the salary of any officer of the Government who undertakes to stimulate and reward superior su-perior service in any production establishment estab-lishment under his control and direction by the payment of a premium" or bonus. The matter is worthy of immediate at tention and action. American Industries |