Evening journal., 1914-11-19
THURSDAY NOV. i9 1914.
THE BAD DREAM OF saE PREsENT.

n, RESIDENT WILSON has written another private
II letter for public consumption This ono is adj
dressed 10 his sonn-law, Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
The Secretary quite naturally is eager to do any
thing TO bolster up the waning political fortunes OF
the House OF Wilson. It is doubtful, however, that
President Wilson has helped his to appreci-
able extent by writing that letter that Secretary
McAdoo has performed true hal service in dissent
mating it through the public prints
The President the future is bright and that the
past "is a bad dream" To him it must seem more
like nightmare than dream.
In reality the White House letter is merely part
and parcel OF widespread Democratic EFFORT to show
that Americans about to enjoy an era OF Wilson
prosperity Our opinion is that the public would
rather have less letter-writing and ntervew-gving
and more the prosperity promised in the name OF
the national Democracy in 1912 and never produced
The following extracts from the Presidents letter
cannot fail to excite much public comment, particular
" in view Of the Wilson administrations warfare upon
American business including the big transportation
lines:
We have only to look back years or so TO real
ize the deep perpextes and dangerous i'll humors out
of which have at last issued as IL from be-
wiiderng fog. noxious miasma Ten or twelve years
ago the country torn and excited by an agita,
ife brought her business ideals into question con-
demned her social standards. denied the honesty OF
her affairs, the Integrity Of her economic pro
cesses the morality good faith Of many OF the
Things which her law sustained.
the thing stood 50 until the Demucihuc party
came last year The legislation OF the past
wear and half has very large measure done away
with these things. With their correction suspicion
and in will will pass away
The railroads of the country almost as much
Affected not so much because their business Is
curtaled because their credit IS canea IN cues
ton by doubt TO their earning capacity. Ihere
is no other interest so central to the business wei,
fare Of the country as TINS NO doupt IN @ lne liz, ~"
Of the new day with its understandings the PROB
lens Of railroads will also be met and dealt VIII
For he future is clear and bright with promise o
the best things While there was agitation and sus
picion and distrust and bitter complaint OF wrons
groups and classes we're at war with one another oi
not see that their interests were common and suner
ed only when separated and brought into conflict
The future will be very different from the past whic
we shall presently look back upon venture to say
II upon bad dream. The future viii be dinerent !
action and different spirit time of healing becaus
time Of just dealing and cooperation between me
made equal before the law in fact as well as IN nam
A new day has dawned for the beloved country who's
lasting prosperity and happiness we 50 earnestl
desire.
II is not necessary for American business an
wage-earners TO look back years to find dee
perplexities and dangerous i'll humors which resemb
bewilderng fog and noxous mi.sma- Those thin
have been accompaniments Of the Wilson admnistr
ton The people are suffering from them today, not
bad dream but a grim reality and there are fe
transportation lines today that not also suferi
from them. In fact the treatment accorded 10 I
railroads during the last two has constituted
national scandal and public injury. In vie
Of the great injury that the transportation systeI
have suffered since Mr.. Wilson became President a
Of tho injuries they still suffering through the
tcrstate Commerce Commission and other government
agencies it seems rather strange for the President
he preaching at this late day gospel Of "candor a
Justice with respect TO them
VIC hope President Wilson is right in his assert
that our country is about to enjoy r period of gr
prosperity We doubt IT, however because we do
think his policies capable Of producing such
sired result Certainly tho railroads cannot pros
so long as the Federal Government pursues its pr
at1 NIr rfaun Il
ness men and wage-earners he induced to bark b
ten years for bad business dream when they h
one now that IS infinitely worse and the outgrowth
that sleeping sickness that the Wilson Administered
mas produced in the commercial and industrial nc
II nation