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Show - IFJVE ARE TO WAGE WAR All ALL H- Under date of July 2, 1918, Scott Fer- ris, Oklahoma Congressman, Chairman H . of the Democratic National Congression-: Congression-: al Committee, has put out a letterhead of Hi the House Committee on Public Lands H boasting of the record of the administra- :. ' tion '"during the fourteen months of war," and enclosing a copy of President I , Wilson's last address to Congress, which V he begins with this statement: H ' "If we are to wage war at all, we should Hr wage it vigorously." Hfi" In other words the Chairman of the Hp Democratic National Congressional com- H . mittee himself raises a question of doubt H as to whether we should be waging war. H "If jve are to wage war at all," certainty H . involves a question as to whether we H shouljd be waging war. H ' i The question of whether or not we are I, ' to wage war is of the past. We are at war. it is no time for the chairman of H, . the Democratic Congressional committee UL " to be issuing "an implied apology for a Hk;, ' state of war. We are at war. There are Ijt no "ifs" about it, and no "ifs" should be jjf talked about by the man 'who has charge Hn of'ithe Democratic campaign tor control Bt v offthi next Congress. BKw??'1T r H-- HMsf Chairman Ferris had said: "If we Hjtvy are. to havq a Congress at all, we should ' haye a Democratic Congress," the state-Hi state-Hi V: ment-ayduld involve that there is some Ky r question about whether we should have Hf a Congress. If he had said: "If we are K i , to have politics at all this year, it should j;1 be Democratic politics," "it would imply If -tv" that there should .be no politics. When Hii he says: "If we are to wage war at all, H $' we should-wage it vigorously," it is an K h apology to every voter who is opposed to. H $ thewaiv Otherwise Chairman t Ferris H would'have said: "We should wage 'the K &. war.vigprcmsly," and let it go at that fcs5S?u? We are at .war. The next Congress Hn ? J& should1 not be under,, the control of men 4, $T whoj are disposed to apologize for that Kl '17, state of affairs, after they have as con- v gressnieh voted for war and ask for re- $$M'' election on the ground that we arevin H war. This is no time for apologies or H 'f - ' or cpneessioris to pacifist or disloyal Hp sentiment. We are at war: And -the H I' ' DemocraticNational Congressional Com- K '$ mittee lis headed by a man who starts a K K- campaign letter with the phrase: "If we HL are to wage war at all." The National K. 7 Republican. , |