The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-08-18
Prosperity Awaits Nation if Govern
ment Can Successfully Garry Out
Neutrality in European Conflict.
PRESIDENT WILSON COMPETENT
Must Prevent Attempts to Deliber-
ately Involve This Country in War
Recent Incident Recalled.
BY Congressman G.. H. Tavenner.

tory since the Civil War
finds in tn. White House
the man who is competent
to guide the ship of state through
the troubled waters. Providence is
still watching the destinies of this
great republic. When the strife
broke out between the states there
was Abraham Lincoln And now
when the war is threatening to en-
gulf the whole earth, and only the
wisest council can bring the United
States safely through to the great
destiny that seems to be hers for the
reaching, in the White House we
have Woodrow Wilson, who will
rank with Abraham Lincoln II the
histories Of the future.
President Wilson's great ability
was never better shown than just at
the outbreak of the present Euro
pean war. That YVES a period when
the world was ringing with the
clustering ,proclamations and boast
full utterances of the European mon
archs. In the midst of the shout
ing of kings there was heard a quiet,
commanding note. phrased in the
the most terse and clearest of Ian
guage. 1t was the offer of Pres
ident Wilson to mediate in the Euro
pean trouble.
Compared with that utterance the
boisteriousi statements of the war;
ing emperors sounded like the
efforts of high school sophomores.
It showed that the United States in
Woodrow Wilson has chief ex-
ecutive who drafts in ability the
reigning heads Of the European
nations. In the White House we have
the brain and courage that may
safely be trusted by the people in the
critical times ahead. -
And they will be critical times
The whole earth cannot engage in
desperate war, destroying utterly
billions of wealth which patient in
dustry has been generations in
effect upon the fortunes of the few
-combatants among the nations.
Just to mention two of the possible
ngers-that of being involved in
the war itself; and that of being
disastrously involved in the financial
crash that Isl bound to overtake
Europe if this war is continued to
the bitter end. If we can avoid
both of these dangers. the destiny Of
America in the near future will be
something undreamt of until the
present moment. Upon Woodrow
Wilson will devolve the mighty task
of preserving the nation.
Should Europe utterly exhaust
herself-her lives and resources-in
the present struggle, there is moth
ing ahead of her but bankruptcy.
The bankruptcy of Europe wohld put
a financial strain upon the United
States that would be we'll night I'M
bearable. If European currency, for
instance, were impaired. there would
be rush to exchange American Sc
curities owned abroad for American
gold The American gold supply is
entirely Inadequate to meet such a
demand.
The glittering prize held out to
the United States is the foreign
trade formerly held by the manufac-
turing nations of Europe. 1t is the
underlying cause of the present war
the bone over which the foreign
war-dogs are fighting And the lean
hound on this side of the ocean is
preparing to escape with that bone
while the others are fighting. -
There is a possibility that Ger
many or any other European nation.
seeing America preparing to monop-
Ollie the foreign trade for which
they are fighting with bullet and
bayonet, might deli berately attempt
to involve the United States in the
war. This would effectually prevent
us from Selling the trade. The ease
with which such course might be
followed is shown in the recent Incl
dent regarding the location of a
German wireless station on Long
Island. H.
The pride is a glittering one if we
can thread the rapids and gain the
still water ahead. Such prosperity
as never before was known awaits
us there. In the White House sits
our pilot and guide. He is borne
down with care. There is a new.
great grief for him to bear, but his
courage is still unfaltering. The best
of life has gone for him, but, spurred
by the responsibility of his office, by
the knowledge that the faith of the
people is in him, with squarded
shoulders, he faces the future.