The Marlow Review (Marlow, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1917 Page: 7 of 8
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MARLOW (OKLA) ' REVIEW THURSDAY JUNE 21st 1917
Senator Gore’s Speech
the fate of the government may
rest Its duration is incompatible
in my opinion with the existence of
the ' measures in contemplation A
crisis has at last arrived to which
the course of things has long tended
and which may be decisive upon the
happiness of future generations
It is time for Congress to examine
and decide for itself It has taken
things on trust long enough It has
followed Executive recommendation
till there remains no hope of finding
safety in that path What is there
sir that makes it the duty of the
people now to grant sew confidences
to the administration and to surren-1
der their most important rights toJ
Its descretion? On what merits of
its own does it rest this extraordi-
nary claim?
Is this sir conartent with the
character of free government? Is
this civil liberty? Is this the real
character of our Constitution? No
sir indeed it is not The Constitu-
tion is libeled foully libeled The
people of this country have not es-
tablished for themselves such a fab-
ric' of despotism They have not
purchased at a vast expense of their
own treasures and their own blood
a Magna Charts to be slaves Where
is it written in the Constitution in
wHat article or section is it con-
tained that you maj take children
from their parents and parents from
their children and compel them to
fight the battles of any war which
thi folly or wickedness of Govern-
ment may engage in? Under what
concealment has this power lain
hidden which now foi the first time
comes forth with a tremendous and
baleful aspect to trample down
and destroy the dea-est rights of
personal liberty? Who' will show
me ' any constitutional injunction
which makes it the duty of the
American people to aorrender every-
thing valuable in life and even
life itself not when tne-safety of
their country and its liberties 1 may
demand the sacrifice but whenever
the purposes of an ambitious and
mischevious Government may re-
quire ft? Sir I almost disdain to
go to quotations and references to
prove that such -an abominable doe-
trine has no foundation in the Con-
stitution of tho country It is
enough to know that that instrument
was intended as thte basis of a free
Government and that the power con
tended for is incompatible with any
aetien of personal liberty An at-
tempt to maintain this doctrine upon
the provisions of the Constitution is
aa f exercise of perverse ingenuity
to extract slavery from tho aubotapco
of a free government It is an-attempt
to show by proof and argu-
ment that we oursoives are subjects
of despotism sod that we have a
right to chains and bondage firmly
secured to us and our children by
the provisions of ojr Government
It has been the labor of other men
at other times to mitigate and re-
form the powers of government by
construction to support the rights
of personal security by every species
of favorable and benign -interpretation
and thus to in-use a free spirit
into governments not friendly in
' their general structure and forma-
tion to public liberty
The supporters of the measures
before us act on the opposite prin-
ciple It is their task to raise ar-
bitrary powers by construction out
of aplain written charter of national
libertry It is their pleasing duty
to free us of the delusion which
we have fondly cherished that we
are the subjects of a mi’d free and
limited government and to demon-
strate by a regular chair of premises
and conclustions that government
possesses over us a power more
tyrannical more arbitrary more
dangerous more full of every form
of mischief more productive of every
sort of misery that has been exer-
cised by any civilized government
with one exeception in modern
times
Sir in granting Congress the power
to raise armies the people have
granted all the means which are ordi
nary and usual and which are con-
sistent with the liberties and security
of the people themselves and they
have granted no others To talk
about the unlimited power of the
government over the means to exe-
cute its authority is to hold a lan-
guage which is true only in regard
to despotisms The tryanny of ar-
bitrary government consists as much
in its means as in its ends and it
would be a ridiculous and absurd
constituton which should be less
cautous to 'guard against abuses in'
the one oase tliai in the other
All the means and instruments which
a free government exercises as well
as the' ends and means it pursues
are to partake of its own essential
character and to be conformed to
its genuine spirit Afree govern-
ment with arbitrary means to ad-
minister it is a contradiction a free
government without adequate pro-
visions for personal security is an
absurdity a free government ith
an uncontrolled power of military
conscription is a sojectan at once
the most ridicu'ous and abominable
that evfer entered into the head of
man
Sir I invite the supporters of the
measures before you to look to their
actual operations Let the men who
have so often pledged their own for-
tunes and lives to the support of
this war look to the wanton sacri-
fice which they are about to make
of their lives and fortunes They
may talk as they wi’l about substi-
tutes and compensation and ex-
emptions It must come to the draft
at last If the Government cannot
hire men to voluntarily fight in bat-
tles neither can individuals If the
war should continue there will be
no escape and every man’s fate and
every man s life will come to depend
on the military draft Who shall
describe to you the horrors of your
orders of conscriptin shall create in
the once happy villages of-the coun-
try? Who shall describe the anguish
and distress which they will spread
over those hi' Is and valleys where
men have heretofore been accus-
tomed to labor and to rest in se-
curity and happiness? Anticipate
the scene sir when the class shall
assemble to stand its draft and throw
the dice ' for blood " What a group
of wives and mothers and sisters
of helpless age and helpless infancy
shall gather round the theater of
this horrible lottery as if the strokes
of death should fall from heaven
before their eyes on a father a
brother a son or a husband And
in the-majority of cases sir it will
be the stroke of death Under
present' prospects of a continuance
of the war not one-half of them
uponr whom your conscription shall
fall will ever return totell-the tale
of their sufferings They will per-
ish of disease and pestilence or they
will leave their bones to- whiten in
fields beyon4 the-frestieiv- Deep-tbe
lot fall on -the father of a-family?
Qiq children already orphans shall
see his face no more When they
behold him for the last time they
shall see him lashed : and fettered
and dragged away- from his own
threshold like a felon and an outlow
Does it fall on a sou the hope and
staff - of the aged- parents? That
hope shall fail them On that staff
they shall lean no longer They
shall not enjoy the happiness of
dying before their children They
shall totter to their graves bereft
of their offsprings and- unwept by
any who inherit their blood Does
it fall on a husband? The eyes
which watch his parting steps may
swim in tears forever She is s
Wonderful Stuff!
Lift Out Your Corns
Apply a few drops then lift corns ot
caHutes off with fingers—
no pain
No humbug! Any corn whethei
hard soft or between the toes will
loosen right up and lift out withoul
a particle of pain or soreness
This drug is called freezone and b
a compound of ether discovered b
a Cincinnatti man
Ask at any drug store for a small
bottle of freezone which will cost
but a trifle but is sufficient to rid
one’s feet of every corn or callus
Put a few drops directly upon
any tender aching corn or callus
Instantly the soreness disappears and
shortly the corn or callus will loosen
and can be lifted off with the fingers
This drug freesone doesn't eat out
the corns or calluses but shrivels
them without even irritating the sur-
rounding skin
Just think! No pain at all no
soreness or smarting when apply-
ing it or afterwards If your drug-
gist don’t have freezone have him
order it for you ZS2
wife no longer There is no rela-
tion so tender and so sacred that
by these accursed measures you do
not propose to viVate Into the
paradirse of domestic life you enter
not indeed by temptations and sor-
ceries but by open force and vio-
lence Nor is it sir for the -defense of
his own house and home that he
who is subject to military draft is
to perform the task alloted to him
I would ask sir whether the sup-
porters of this measure nave weighed
the difficulties of this undertaking?
Have they considered whether it will
be found easy to execute laws which
bear such marks of despotism on
their front and which wi’l be eo
productive of every sort and degree
of misery in their execution? For
one sir I hesitate not to say they
cannot be executed No law pro-
feseerly passed for the purpose of
compelling a service in tne Regular
Army not any law which under
cover of military draft shall compel
men to serve in the Army not for
the emergencies mentioned in the
Constitution but for longer periods
and for the general oojects of war
can be carried into effect The op-
eration of measures thus unconsti-
tutional and illegal ought to be pre-
vented by a resort to other measures
which are both constitutional and
legaL
In my opinion sir the sentiments
of the free population of this coun-
try are greatly mistaken here The
Nation is not yet in a temper to
submit to a conscription The peo-
p’e have too fresh and strong a
feeling vof the blessings of civil liber-
ty to be willing thus to surrender
it You may talk to them as much
as you please of the victory and
Hory to ba obtained in the enemy’a
Provinces they will bold those ob-
jects in light estimation If the means
be a forced military service You
may sing to them tne song of the
Canadian conquests iu all its var-
iety but they will not be charmed
out of the remembrance of their
substantial Interests and true hap-
piness Similar pretenses they know
and the graves in which tbs liberties
of other nations have been buried
and they will take the warning
i Laws sir of this nature can create
nothing but opposition If you scat-
ter them abroad like the fabled ser-
pent’s teeth they will spring up in-
to arptad meit A military force
cannot bs-raised in this manner but
by a military force If that admin-
istration has ’found that it cannot
form an army without conscription
it will find if it venture upon these
experiments that it cannot enforce'
conscription without an army The
government was not constituted for
such purposes Framed- in the spirit
of liberty and the love of peace it
has no powers which render it able
to enforce such laws The attempt
if we rashly make it will fail and
having already thrown away our
peace we may thereby throw away
our Government
Rtmirlii of Senator Gore in the
Sanata on May 28 1917 m Bahalf
of Justice to tho Farmer
Mr Gore Mr President I rath-
er admire the Senator’s enthusiasm
for economy but I am sorry that
he desires to cut the first pound of
flesh nearest the farmer’s heart It
is not the first time that the Amer-
ican farmer has experienced this fate
at the hands of his professed friends
It seems to me that the farmer has
more friends before the election
and fewer friends after the election
than any other class of our citi-
zenship I suggested a moment ago
that before -emergency revenue
measures were passed it was esti-
mated that the American farmer
paid more than 70 per cent of our
entire-national revenue and out of
the billion dollars a raised he- re-
ceives only about $20000000 for
his special improvement and ad-
vancement Last week we appropriated $3
400000000 to exterminate human
life — almost as much as the total
cost of the Civil War Now we hig-
gle about a modest appropriation
to exterminate pestilenceand disease
and to multiply the means of saving
human life I wish that economy
prevai’ed in other departments and
was not concentrated on the farmer
alone to his hurt and to the hurt
of the public particularly when it
is designed as this appropriation is
designed to save a loss of from
$40000000 to $78000000 a year
by arresting hog'cholera and an an-
nual loss of from $40000000 to
$100000000 by staying the ravages
of the cattle tick What better In-
surance could be made-than to con
serve the food supplies of our civ-
ilian population and to conserve the
food supplies of our military forces?
I can imagine no more shortsighted
policy than that of submitting toi
these enormous annual loses- Instead-
of meeting our duty as statesmen
arresting these evils and protecting
our people against these incalculable
losses
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Nance, James C. The Marlow Review (Marlow, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1917, newspaper, June 21, 1917; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1861979/m1/7/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed July 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.