Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-30

= creating distrust OF all opposition
to his policies by insinuations of
sinister Influences exerted to thwart
his plans. Every time. he gets into
close quarters with opposition in Con-
| sress the cry Is started by the admin
] 1stration that a great lobby of some
sort is opposing him against "the in
terests of the people,"
But at last the mask is off the man
in the White House. For a year he
was permitted to develop and exploit
his theories of government without re-
gard to their effect upon the indus
tries and the business of the country.
Now manufacturers, business men and
working men who were promised
millennium of prosperity under the
Wilson regime--the reduction of the
high cost of living and improvement
of every sort-are demanding to know
what the administration proposes to
do to make good these promises and
pledges to the people. 1t will not do
to blame some alleged lobby for in
reference with the program of the
President. Opposition to the Presi-
dent does not involve moral turpitude
or disloyalty or lack of interest in the
public welfare.
AS the representative of minority
of the people, he has no brief to speak
as their oracle. He deserves the de-
cent consideration of all men and rea-
sonable cooperation of Congress in
all matters affecting the welfare of
upon the part of any citizen to support
the various propositions of Woodrow
Wilson simply because he happens to
be President. Unfortunately he is that
type of man who insists that only those
are good men with pure motives who
give him their support. Those who
refuse to do so are past redemption.
1t Is the same sort of fatuous self
righteousness which seems to have
permeated the whole structure of the
Wilson propaganda throughout the
country. Those In Pennsylvania who
are upholding his policies also de-
mounce, bulldoze and threaten and
condemn all who refuse to follow in
their footsteps.
There has not been in the history of
the government such abject sub
serviency as has been demonstrated
by the majority of Democratic men,
bers Of Congress in their surrender to
the President. One of these declared
lin a speech that "he can make no mis-
take. He is our President. and what
he does is right; what he wants he
should have!'
Was there ever such kowtowing and
is It any wonder that the big men of
the party have broken with the die
tator of the White House?
President Wilson has been directly
charged with selling out to England
in the matter of the repeal of the pro-
vision of the Panama Canal act ex-
empting American coastwise vessels
from the payment of tolls when pass
ing through the canal. Representa-
tive Knowland has given in circum-
stantial detail a story of various con-
ferences between the President and
agents of the British government, fol-
lowing which a statement was issued
in London that there was not the slight
est doubt the repeal of the tolls pro-
vision would go through both the Sen
ate and the House.
There is suspicion at Washington
that the President is dickering with
England in order to save his face ii
the Mexican situation. His refusal tc
recognize Huerta and his subsequent
throwing down of the bars to the
bandit Villa in the matter Of deliver.
ing arms and ammunition across thu
American border has aroused the
people everywhere and there appears
TO be now nothing for him to do bu
admit his mistake and prevent wa
with Mexico by at once recognizinl
the only constitutional authority in tn,
distracted republic. Huerta may no
be the ideal ruler. but he seems to b,
the only one who is maintaining any
:" thing like a semblance of government
south of the Rio Grande.
| No, Maude, that loud noise from tn,
l Central West was not thunder. 1t wa
Y 'TJncle Joe Cannon having the lausl