The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-04-25

an administrator upon which rests
the responsibility fer a program Of
fcrceful dealing with a foreign prob
lem. No American Of serious mind
and sane understanding can feel any
enthusiasm for this engagement upon
which the nation has found it nece
sary to enter, and the realities or con
fIict that have come 50 swiftly In the
affair at Vera Cruz must serve to i'm
press deeply tho meaning and the pos-
sibilities of a proceeding in arms by
one nation against even faction Of
another. Mr.. Bryan, as a passionate
deyotee Of peace and d distinguished
protaeonist OF the settlement Of all
disputes by arbitration is, Doubtless,
deeply distressed that the govern
nent Of which he Is a part has found
II impossible to avoid the shedding
( blood in adjusting its foreign rela-
tIons, but he Is not man to ghirk the
duties that fall upon him, nor TO
waver in determination TO carry out
a righteous policy to which he has
committed his approval. There has
been not the slightest indication of
division Of sentiment in the cabinet
over the Mexican policy Of the admin
istration, and, as a matter Of fact, Mr..
bryan has been tredited-or charged
with large measure of respcnsi-
bility for the making and maintain
ing Of that policy, which has been
seized upon by some of his enemies
as an exhibit against him at this time,
and IL Is the advertisement Of this,
that has given wings TO the
rumor that he contemplates retirement
from the cabinet of war president.
In the current issue OF his Commoner
appears an article signed by Mr..
Bryan, which deplores the disposition
to measure the strength aud glory Of q
nation by 1t preparedness for war.
The path Of history says Mr.. Bryan,
is strewn with the wreck Of nations
that boosted that they. were all pow
erful they went down under Jehovah 3
inexorabe law-and the God who
ruled over Babylon is the God who Is
ruling yet This question must be de
cided on moral principles and not by
the counting of our regiments and bat
tleshlps." The New York Sun make
sport of the fact that this preachment
and warning against military arr)-
ganee appeared In Mr.. Bryan's paper
ON the very day that the government
OF which he IL high official landed
armed forces on foreign shore ano
split the blood Of Americans in enfore
ing demand upon another govern
ment. There Is. perhaps, the irCny OF
fate In that circumstance. as there Is
+ in the fact that Mr.. Bryan, vino dc
elared that he went into Office that
an administration of which he was a
part would not draw the sword, finds
himself. after little more than year
sitting in councils of a war In which
Ithat administration has found II necep
AIRY to engage But, that Is for
uity against which no one could
guard
Actually no more appropriate ut
teranee by an official Of govern
.nent entering upon military enter
prise could be made than this of Mr.
|Bryan's. IL ever there was a time foi
humility and realization that right
BUSINESS is not to the strong armed
IL is TO nation of irresistible power
entering upon an armed conflict Will
one of limited ability, Mr.. Bryan is
in the right state OF mind for the Mex
lean enterprise and II is to be hoped
that he will Undue the nation with his
own solemn regard