The Republican journal., 1914-09-10
: THE WILSON POLICY.

| pIete CONIfOl VI the ekieiotIVS onu cNASS~
tive departments-had been specially
designed to destroy the unprecedented
prosperity the country had enjoyed under
Republican rule it could not have been
more successful in paralyzing trade and
industry and depriving hundreds of thou
sands of our people Of employment. Yet
no one will accuse President Wilson of
having so unpatriotic and SO destructive
an end in view. Every one must credit
him with good intentions. But, like
most men whose life has been bounded
by college walls, who have had no prac-
teal experience in affairs, he is dream
er whose head is in the clouds and who
believes that in striving to attain his
ideals he is about to confer lasting bene.
fits upon his country. He knows more
about finance than those whose life has
been spent in the marts of the world !;
more about manufactures than the
manufacturers, more than the collec-
tive wisdom of Congress, which he bends
to his will against its better judgment.
Il is surprising that there should be
any defenders of the Presidents Mexican
policy, which has caused the loss of the
lives of many of our people, the destruc-
ton or abandonment of their property
! in Mexico and an expenditure of millions
in sending fleet to Vera Cruz and the
landing and maintaining of troops in that
city. President Huerta was friendly to
Americans, an able man, and his govern
ment had been recognized by Great Brit
ain and other foreign nations. Had
President Wilson not given aid and COM
fort to the revolutionists Americans and
American interests in Mexico would have
been safeguarded, the revolutionists put
down and peace and order maintained.
But the embargo against sending arms
and munitions of war into Mexico was
made operative only against Huerta.
Had this country been drawn into war
with Mexico the arms and ammunition
furnished to Villa and Carranza would
undoubtedly have been used against our
troops So far from the policy of the
Wilson administration bringing about
peace in Mexico Gen. Villa is now in
triguing for the overthrow of Carranza,
the provisional president, with the ex-
pectation, no doubt, of securing the
presidency himself. His success would
mean another revolution, with further
losses of life and property. Meanwhile
the administration is maintaining troops
in Vera Cruz and battleships at that
port and further increasing Mexican
hatred of the Gringos. Then the failure
of the administration to protect the lives
and property of Americans in Mexico
in striking contrast with the policy of
Great Britain, who affords protection to
her subjects everywhere-has caused
deep indignation. When refugees ap-
piled to this government for protection
and redress they were told that they had
no business to be in Mexico. that they
only went there to make money and must
suffer the consequences. Can any pat
riotic American approve of such pol
icy?
The Wilson and Underwood tariff that
was to reduce the high cost of living has
had a contrary effect, and the war on the
railroads and the trusts has been equally
disappointing. One great New England
railroad has been driven practically into
bankruptcy. Its stockholders deprived
of their dividends, and on this and other
roads trains have been taken off, curtail-
ing the facilities and increasing the cost
of travel and throwing thousands of rail-
road men out OF employment. The dis
m emberment of the so-called steel trust
is said to have Injured to the benefit of
that organization without gain to the
public. And that is true of other trusts
The reduced tariff on sugar, with free
sugar in the near future, has ruined the
sugar industry of Louisiana and the
sugar beet industry of the West and the
Pa cific coast. The so-called sugar trust
buys and refnes raw sugar and will be
the gamer under the present tariff,
rather than the consumer, while the
sugar producers of this country will be
driven out of business.
Now the administration is after the
banks. Some one has complained of dis
elimination in making loans and the
national banks of New York, already,
with other banks, hampered by the
v ague provisions of the income tax law,
h ave been called upon to give details as
to their loans and the securities upon
which they are made. The newspapers
of the country have to submit to an in
QUESTION as to their affairs and make de-
tailed statements as to their expenditures
evn to such minor details as paste, ink,
etc., and publish a list of their stock
holders semi-annually. Why the lawyers,
the doctors and business men generally
are not subjected to a like inquisitlon
I'm der this paternal administration 1t IS
d iffcult to understand; but unless an
aroused people compel return co Re
publican form of government this and
~L.A