Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-11
ASSAULTS ON
The PRESIDENT
Administration Most Vicious
ly. y.lAssailed, Says Veteran
Newspaper Man
JONES GIVES EXHIBITION
The Tenacity Of WilsonF orces
Reluctant Congress to
Keep All Pledges

j: have been about this capital for
more than a third of century, and
/. never knew of an administration
so viciously and unscrupulously as
sailed by the opposition as that of
Woodrow Wilson. The democrats
treated r. B Hays with comparative
ly distinguished courtesy. The as
saults on Grover Cleveland were less
malignant than those aimed at the
man now president. If they would
confine themselves to the truth it
would little matter but they resort
to all sorts of lying and SANDER.
I'll tell you what is the matter with
these gentry. They voted against
the income tax and they are striving
to divert public attention from the
fact. Every one of 'em is hench-
man of monopoly, fetching and car
rying for the plutocrats who have
controlled the republican party for
more than 80 years. Faced by dire
necessity the republican party levied
an income tax during the great war
of 1S61-65; but when peace came that
party repealed the act. The demo-
cratic party gained power in 1893
and imposed on the rich an income
tax which a republican supreme court
promptly declared unconstitutional
More completely than during the civ
Il war the republican party was in
power from the retirement of Cleve-
land till the advent of Wilson, and
they did not enact an income
tax. But public opinion forced from
them a reluctant assent to a consti-
tutional amendment authorizing an
income tax, though the best lawyers
In the land declared that such an
amendment was not necessary. Had
not the republicans been bitterly hos
tile to imposing on wealth fair
share of the public burdens the
amendment would have been in force
before Mckinley died and the income
tax levied before Roosevelt was warm
in his seat.
Before the session closes Wilson
will have eXtorted from reluctant
democractic congress such amend
ments to the antitrust laws as will
take from high finance the power to
duplicate such capers and shines as
were seen in the wreck of the New
Haven. of Chicago and Alton, of Rris-
co. and other high-toned robberies
practiced by Big Business. OF course
the henchmen of monopoly in con-
gress are enraged. OF course, they
are calamity howlers, of course they
are base slanderers.
Well, there's this about it-Wilson
springs like tiger and holds on like
a bulldog and this congress will have
to stay here until the Wilson pro-
gram is vitalized and the law of the
land Then there will be two years
to try it out. If it shall prove sue
cessful there will be nothing political
I'm the country but the democratic
party; if it fails, Theodore ROose-
welt will be "Everyman himself" That
is all there is to it so far as the demo-
cratic policy is concerned.
But the fiercest assaults are aimed
at Wilson's Mexican policy. And no
national honor could be gathered
from a war with that weak, torn, dis
tracted country, so no national dis
honor can arise from resort to even
extraordinary means to avoid such a
war; If it were nation Of our size
and class Wilson is the very man to
throw down the gage or pick up the
gauntlet, but the strong should have
patience with the weak. The jingoes
would have us bully and some Of
'em insist that we shall not only
carry fire and sword into Mexico,
but that we must rob her Of the best
part of her fair domain. That was
considered all right centuries ago
when the scale Of justice was ever
inclined to the sword of Brennus.
Wilson is striving to get out of
Mexico without a war, and II every
American citizen had upheld his
hands, this good day the Mexican
question would be composed and COM
parative tranquility established in
that unhappy land. Talk about cop
perheads! They are the jingoes in
congress who seek to embarrass and
hamper and thwart a president OF
their own country in his dealings
with a foreign pawn. The jingoes
of 16 years ago forced q war on Nc