Bisbee daily review., 1914-04-28
PATTERSON AND WAR.

Smelling strongly of powder and reverberant with the tuma.rumbling the drums editorial by Henry watterson in his Kentucky journal is calculated to set the Nations blood atnging Naturally. the Colonel bristles doubles up his he the MeSi situation. Listen to him:
 Let us not deceive ourselves nor be deceived It is The of the hour makes many protestations; that have quarrel with the Mexican people that want Mexican territory that seek only good neighborhood that peace and order sole objective points But all the same. if the flag across the Rio Grande it will never come
 Throughout the ages the historic rules has been to appeal God for the justice of the The cause" is always the prevailing idea. sometimes of selfish in clad in patriotic raiment and sometimes of am bition robng itself in religious pretenson occasiona y blood sprnked in the face of the people to goad them But unusually, the of corn has been put evidence bride hid behind until the issue completely joined and the parties to the con fct committed beyond recall So will it be in the odys- sey which the Yankee Greeks are preparing for them selves and precpitating upon foolish Trojans of Mexico.
 It is true that for our proceeding have something more than pretext The mistake the President made in recognizing the facto Government along with the other nations and of letting it at that may in the end prove wiser than knew; that Is, placing all the responsibility upon us clear the way for the march of manifest destiny, about which in the good old Demo cratic days we heard so much.
 Surely the consequences have been deadly enough The world which has censured delay cannot now array itself against pulling its chest nuts out of the fire time that toast own The swelling this imperial theme-for this i, is-may carry the Doctrine lengths never dreamed of by it may be- the farseeng Sen ator Borah suggests the beginning the upon the Isthmus; yet Lodge in his splendid sub s,itute described We have good warrant and expansion as little as revolution goes backward when headed South and West the canal the first We mean not war;. says Wilson. "An aboard for Panama" say the boys
 Foreseeng these things the Courier-Journa at the close of the Spanish made and constant effort fix limit the jngo spirit and the horizon of conquest that Monroe Doctrine was a National menace and international irrtant South and Central suspected patronage and resented protection We sought their custom. The Courier Journal recognia:ag the commerciazed of the time pleaded the removal of bar to friend iy intercourse especially which the occasion of much misconstruction. could be maintained only by force of
 The genus or the Nineteenth oi lne ttntufieo' we set forth was liberty. Measurably the world had ob- taned it. The genius the Twentieth of the Centuries, we argued is markets Let us, urged do nothing to frelghten away the myrads who to be clothed and fed-benoyelently assimilated said some, Christian ized" said oherswhist having watered the milk and sanded the sugar proceeded with prosperous pa trotism and profitable pety.
 Man proposes God dsposes. The peaeemakers house of cards falls with crash Mir. Bryan's hope O. next years Nobel prize goes gimmering Andrew Car negie's picture is turned to the wall lt,s war.
 Yea verily, we in for it. Tramp, trahp. tramp the boys are marching They may not be just shout ing the battlecry of freedom War never ends where 1t started Militarsm in the saddle knows not where ,o stop and southward the Star of Empire takes its way The whine of Uplift crowd please, or fool the pharisaic but it is war; and Forrest observed, rueans fighting and fighting means killing, and when if is over there the forfeit the indemnity and if s not worth our while will 1t pay to lie about our peaceful intentions and pious purposes thinking to n,aeste or bamboozle the of LatinAmerca Soune tle bold antheml On to the lsthmus