The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-04
WILSON ON LINCOLN.

! Charles ID. Hilles, chairman of
!. the Republican national commit
!. tee, has issued the following:
T At this time, when the negroes
!. throughout the United States are
I celebrating in various ways the
|. dftieth anniversary OF the first
/ proclamation OF emancipation
I. and when the Democratic candl-
/ date for the presidency, Woodrow
7 Wilson, is appealing to the peo-
j pie of the western states to sup
!. port him, 1t is fitting that the
|. chairman Of the political commit
!. tee organized to further the cause
|. of the candidates of the Repub-
!. lican party for president and vice
!. president should call attention to
7 an expression of opinion by Gov
!. ernor Wilson at n period In his
Z career when possibly he never
|. dreamed of being candidate for
|. a political office.
|. That expression Of opinion was
/ made In his capacity of historian,
|. and 1t adds to the cumulative teS-
/ timony that he was until he be-
!. came candidate and that he is
{ now un-American in his views of
|. public questions and at heart
|. contemptuous Of more than one
!. class of American citizens and
!. out of sympathy with their aims,
|. their purposes and their beliefs.
|. 1t was on Sept %, 1862, that
I President Lincoln issued a proc
|. lamation giving formal notice
/ that unless the southern states
!. returned to their allegiance to
/ the Union within hundred days
|. he would declare the slaves with
[ in their borders free, and 1t was
!. on the 1st Of January, 1868, fol-
/ lowing, that a definite proclama-
|. ton of emancipation was issued.
{ OF this crowning event of the ca
+ reer of the immortal Lincoln,
|. Woodrow Wilson says in his
7 History of the American Peo-
|. ple," written forty years after
7 ward:
|. THE proclamation when 1t
7 came was no law, but only his
|. Nincoln's) deliberate declaration
I of policy for himself and for his
|. party, and changed, as he meant
/ that it should change, the whole
!. air of the struggle and of politics
/ as we'll"
7 1t is safe to say that not even
I the most radical unrecOnstructed
!. southern man would attribute to
3 Lincoln this motive which it re
+ mained for the historian Wood
I. row Wilson alone to discover,
+ that Lincoln abolished slavery
I. to further his own political ambi-
I tions and those Of his political
{ party. The statement adds proof
/ to much already at hand that
I. Woodrow Wilson forty years aft
/ er the war was and presumably
1. still is devoid of sympathy for
/ the motive and results of the
!. civil war.
/ The quotation from the Demo
: cratic candidates writings proves
/ that he is not q reliable historian
!. nor a fair commentator. 1t goes
{ to show what has been often as
!. serted, that Governor Wilson is
I not at heart an admirer Of or a
+ believer in American institutions,
!. as his other writings and speech
/ es show that he is not a eulogist
!. of American industries nor a de
l" fender of American labor. He
I. continuously ISLANDERS millions of
{ adopted citizens from abroad
T cans. He sneers at trade unions,
!. and apparently he would If he
l. could close every American mill
!. and buy in foreign markets, be-
l. cause in the first place he is an
+ aristocrat born and bred and be-
Z cause he wants the American
I people to buy where they can
I. buy the cheapest.
+ Everything that can be learned
1. about Governor Wilson from his
I. writings, from his speeches and
\. from his manner of living indi-
/ cate that he Is not the type of
!. man who can successfully appeal
/ for the support Of the American
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