| Show SOME REMARKS mm by senator john A rush it was a once said by some cn e c that chat republic are ungrateful he might more correctly have said that republics republica are forgetful but that forgetfulness la costly ared cured especially if an imposing number of citizens set bet about it for republics are peculiarly responsive spon sive to the public demand so that it I 1 la not necessary that any large element of society whether civilian or returning soldier shall half suffer injustice or remain shackled by unfair treatment all that is necessary to be done is to speak out and demand the right thing then the shackles will be broken the in justice will be righted and fairplay will be the result ana it is all important that the returning soldier boys shall do their own thinking and speak out for themselves they must not do this narrowly or selfishly but broadly and generously and for the welfare of III all their fellow men an when they went into the war they dedicated their services and offered their lives for an ideal they went forth as crusaders crusader to make the world safe for democracy but democracy dem dent cannot be made safe for the world unless onless it is a first made safe are at home so that the returning young men from trenches from the barracks bar and from the camps bays a more important pat pact to play here than any they essayed to perform across the seas upon them rests the duty and the high privilege lege of re reestablishing and maintaining real de macary in this nation a whose whom corner stone is equality of opportunity for real democracy means just that and nothing less leas than that the returning wither must be placed upon an equal with his hie fellow who remained at home and enjoyed high wages and a sate berth the returning soldier must not have the burdens of war taxation tion placed on im bus bis shoulders until after the profiteer and those who coined gold from the blood and sacrifice of our splendid young men shall first have been made to disgorge their ill gotten gains and certainly who went forth to fight to make its denay dena Y safe 1 for 11 1 the world will fight to destroy the wrongs that make democracy unsafe at home here this nation will wiil not do exact J justice ties until it pays paya these soldier bois buil san an amount that shall place them on an equality with theor their fellows who remained at home and this nation will wil I 1 not do the fair thine by our returning heroes if it acair imposes ze we war taxes on them and permits the war profiteer to escape with his loot for the nation to permit either of these wrongs is to shackle tha hands of the strong young men who defended deflin ded us in our time of danger W we must break these shackles of 10 eclea equality lity and of wrong and arm of in just justice it can be done by united action for afe te right |
