The Springdale news., 1914-11-20
PRESIDENT AND PEACE.
(By Champ Clark.

(By Champ Clark.
 Perhaps-who knows ?-when Presi- dent Wilson has finished his course as Chief Magistrate of this mighty Republic and when historians come to assign his place in the pantheon of fame, they will pass over the great domestic measures of his administra- tion, such as tariff revision, eurren- ey legislation, and so forth, and de- clare that his successful efforts to keep the United States out of war constitute his clearest title to the gratitude of his country.
 In his famous first inaugural ad dress, which has become classic, and which every boy and girl should commit to memory as q literary eX- ereise, Thomas Jefferson stated our ideal relations with foreign nations in these words: Peace, commerce. and honest friendship with all na tions; entangling alliances with none'2words fitly spoken. and there fore like apples of gold in pictures Of silver"
 That is the sum and substance of our international creed, to which we have adhered without the shadow of turning. A wiser or q Znobler creed 10 nation ever had
 ZlataCt aynoSftiaa is fas4a1 in rho terse, luminous, emphatic, opportune neutrality message of President Woodrow Wilson pro lamatioa which all good and sensible citizens, of whatever persuasien political or religious. uphold and applaud
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 The Iust reason MA2 We desire =pesael==ia =ia#rans-A Atlantic countries that We are an akin to somebody over there. and our hearts go out 10 our kindred in their sore distress. This applies 10 Us all, whether our ancest- ors came over sou years ago, as mine did, or at a later time IL ap- plies with peculiar force to our 10000 GOO citizens who were born in the countries now in battle array.
 Another reason why We want peace is that war has disturbed almost ev- cry business in which any of our peo- pie are engaged, entaillng sorrow suffering and want on millions of Americans who had no hand whatso- ever in precipitating the awful situa- tion
 Who started it no man seems to know. What it is about appears to be equally obscure. In his cele- brated poem, "Blenheim. Southey caused old Caspar to give his grand son, Peterkin, a glowing account or -oId aoq eql uodneleqm eRleq eql pounded the pertinent and far-re- sounding question, What good came of it at last?" a question which has not been answered to this day. So perhaps, it will be with this war the bloodiest in all the hoary regis ter of time.
 what it is about, we fondly hope and