The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-15
No Man Since Lincoln SO
Trusted BY People as
Wilson
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youths usual reckless passion for the
hazards of adventure.
There is every certainty hat in the
beginning intervention would have
been supported ~unstintediy by the
people. Even as We nave seen the
Socialists Of Europe. pledged to peace.
swept away by high ides Of racial
feeling, 50 would every pacifcist pro-
test in the United States been DROWN
ed out by the boom Of the first Amer.
lean gun. War is always glorious
until the lists of dead and wounded
begin to come, and il must be remeIn-
hered also hat for years it had heen
TIE custom for public men to soothe
the people with the laudanum If
brag and buster.
Judged by every fact in the case,
Woodrow Wilson'S reputation Of
Huerta was in no sense the result Of
a carefully reasoned determination,
but Enthusiastically the instructive re
coil of the democratic spirit. Mental
processes are free from the
inpingementS of selfinterest. 1t is
unly in the unthinking passions OF
idealISIn that there is found the cour-
age to do the right thing rather thaG
that which is eXpedient and oppo"-
taniStic.
While recognition of Huerta was
the wise course, as practically defines
wisdom, it was not the right course.
Ihv acknowledgment that he asked
involved d sanction of assassination
and acquieScence in the Legitimacy II
murder as Il substitute for constitu-
tional procedure. His official exist
encc promised a restoration OF the
tyrannies of DiaZ and d continuance
of the virtual slavery Of the great
mass Of the Mexican people. Presi-
DEM Wilson's address at Mobile is
uenTa than any moro eNnlan4IiQI OF
his course; it is the most Illuminating
exposition of the spirit Of delnoc-
racE since Lincoln barred his soul 1t
Gettysburg. He said:
Human rights, national integrity.
and opportunity as against material
interests-that is the issue we have
TO face. : " This is not America
because it is rich. This is not Amer
lea because it has set up for a great
IOpuiatlor great opportunities for ma
tertal prosperity. America is a name
which sounds in the ears of men
everywhere as a synonym with indi-
vidlial opportunity because a synonym
of individual liberty. ! Would rather
belong IL a poor nation that was free
than to q rich nation that had ceased
to be in owe with liberty. Do
not think that the questions of the
day are mere questions of policy and
diplomacy. They are shot through
VIII lliG principles OIL ne. we OdTe
not turn from the principle that nor
tality and not expediency is the thing
tina: must guide us, and that We will
never iniqli-v it -
IN OSt convenient to do so.
Il further proof were needed O.
Woodrow Wilson's reliance on ideal
ism rather than on logic, it is fur
nisheA by his attitude in those trying
days when "Watcllful waiting pro-
vided laughter for cynics and an open
avenue of attack for jingoes and con
cessionaires. With almost incredible
hypocrisy, intervention was urged "in
the interests of civilization" by the
very class most responsible for in
dustrial strife in Colorado, West Vir-
giliia and Michigan, for the child
labor horror, for housing evils, and
the existence Of Slums. No effort Of
unScrupuious activity was spared. and
at n movement of extreme tension
the b1under OF an over-Zealoua ad-
nlral seemed to throw a lighted
match full into the poWder-barrcl.