Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-04-25 | Page 4 | Enemies of This Country

ENEMIES OF THIS COUNTRY. Rebuking- the national lawmakers who would retard military preparedness prepared-ness by tho United States, the Now Tork World says: "Bvory day that this war continues, at least 10,000 men are killed and wounded, to say nothing of all tho Incidental In-cidental sufforlng and misery. Tho senator or representative who "tries to prevent this government from adopting adopt-ing the most effective military system sys-tem Is deliberately prolonging the war, and every drop of blood that is shod unnecessarily will be upon his hands. Even now, when the President ought to be permitted to concentrate all his thought and attention upon the urgent urg-ent problems of war administration, he is forced to argue with congressmen congress-men who sot their privato opinion above tho inexorablo facts of the conflict. con-flict. And of all the congressmen who are hostile to the President's army bill, the most contemptible, the most infamous, are the cowardly orcatures afraid that some of their constituents might resent it if they voted right" No language is too strong in the denunciation de-nunciation of those men in congress who are offering encouragement to the enemy by blocking needed war legislation.