The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-05-10
Might Learn Something from King
of Montenegro.

Might Learn Something from King
of Montenegro.
The king of Montenegro was told
by all the monarchs and powers of
| Europe that he must not take
/ Scutari.
He is king of a very small country
you could tuck it aWay.in Long is
hand and still have room left for a
good deal Of real estate speculation
Half of his able-bodied men have
been killed fighting already. What
| has happened to Montenegro in this
war is about equivalent to the kill
ing of seven millions OF Americans
of the fighting age.
| The loss of half his fighting men,
and the fact that compared to the
rest of Europe he is like a fly COM
pared to an elephant, doesn't frighten
the king of Montenegro, because he
kneWs that he is right.
| He had right to take Scutari.
He had a right to go on with the
fight, which he and his men victori-
ously and courageously began.
And when Europe told him to stop
he invited Europe to mind its own
business and went ahead with his.
lie took Seutari
And that, Mr. Woodrow Wilson, is
what happens when nation has at
the head of it a man whois thinking
about the rights of that nation and
not theorizing about something else.
In this country, we don's intend to
have Chinese or Japanese Inhabitants
and California says so ina land bill.
Other states have done what Cali
i! fornia does.
The government of the United
States itself discriminates against
the Japanese and Chinese very wise
".
If the japanese and Chinese came
here in numbers greater than public
opinion would permit, we should have
a problem that would result in whole
sale murder, and in conditions very
much more unpleasant for the Japa-
nese and the Chinese than the pres
ent polite diplomatic state Of affairs.
Mr.. Woodrow Wilson, president of
the United States, unfortunately has
been accustomed to dealing with four
important bodies of human beings,
name y-a eshnen las senior
nor and class.
And now that he has been promoted
to position in which he deals with
more important bodies, he acts as
though he had to solve some trou-
bic among the sophpmores, some
cane rush, or some little hazing in
eident.
L And he lectures the college, for
getting that the United States is not
a college; that the public opinion Of
the citizens of this country Is not the
Whim or the playful mood of a class,
Of college boys.
Mr. Wilson is asking Uncle Sam
to apologize to little Mr.. Jap and
thus keep out of trouble.
Mr. Wilson has given the Japan
ese, conceited and aggressive enough
already, an idea that the United
| States fears their naughty displeas-
| ure.
1 California. He has interfered in a
matter in which his voice will carry
| no weight, in which he can do great
harm, but absolutely no good.
He has made the nation ridiculous,
and he might cause temporary seri-
GUS trouble, by making it necessary
for the United States to settle once
and for all the japanese idea that
Japan can do in this country things
which the people of the country
are not willing that she should do
It is unfortunate to take man
who has made no success except as
q moderately good college professor,
i man Wha knows nptAing ct inter-
national affairs, a man whose self
approval Is gigantic and oFerWhelm.
| ing, and put him In position where
lack of ability to keep ones mouth
.shut, and lack of common sense to
appreciate the rank of others, can
work SO much harm.
j 1t is comical to see the king of
Montenegro obtaining his rights and
defying Europe, and to see this coun-
try, the greatest and most powerful
in the world, rebuked by a college
/ professor president, because it ven
lures, in attending to its own busi-
ness, to offend a small handful of
aiagas and braggarts in Iapan,-NeW
York Journal.
! Tho only eoad flv is the dead fIY,