New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-08

So Further on, he says, We insist
upon security in prosecuting our self
chosen lines of national development.
We do more than that. We demand 1t
also for others Later he says, We
regard war as a means Of asserting
the rights Of people against aggres-
,ion,' and continues, we are fiercely
jealous of aggression from
without
/ what does Mr.. Wilson mean when
( in one line he rays that We have
stood apart, studiously neutral be-
cause 1T was our manifest duty to do
co. and a couple Of paragraphs later
says that. we demand security in pros
ecuting their self-chosen lines of ma
tional development for others? lie
can take either Of the two positions;
but he cannot take both. Did or did
not Mr.. Wilson demand security Tor
Belgium TO prosecute its self-chosen
lines Of national development? he
knows he did not. Then what does
he mean by saying that, we demand
this security also for others tie is
using words TO cover a policy of dis
4 honorable inaction.
pierce Jealousy" Scoffed At.
again, he says that we are 'hercely
Jealous Of aggression from without,
How did he show his fierce Jealousy
as regards the aggressions on the Lusi-
tania and Ancona, which resulted In the
Of. hundreds Of American lives? How
hiss he shown his fierce Jealousy as
regards the sixty or seventy soldiers
wearing the American uniform, not TO
apeak of the women and children and
civilians. killed or wounded on Ameri-
can soil by Mexican bullets? One
SYMPTOM of his fierce jealousy to pre-
/ vent Aggression from without was the
issuing of an order that our men
I should not FIRE back when fired upon:
"Three years ago Mr.. Wilson said
he believed in the policy OF 'pitiless
nublicity.' We have never had as Sc
/ cretive an administration. The exact
numbers Of the soldiers Of the United
/ States Army who have been killed or
wounded by Mexicans, the exact mum,
bers Of the American men, women ana
I children who have been killed or out
( ragged In person or property IN Mexico
cannot be told, because Mr.. wilson
mas hindered all publicity. Mr.. VII
/ sons elecution is that Of Byzantine
J logothete-snd Byzantine logothetes
were not men OF action.
Almost three years ago Mr.. wilson
/ refused to recognize Huerts, on the
/ ground that we were never TO recog-
4 pize a government founded on violence.
/ He then tentatively supported Nlila:
/ who represented the embodiment OF
/ violence; il being meanwhile asserted
/ on behalf Of the administration that
under no circumstances would we deal
/ with Carranza. whose government ike
wise WAS founded on violence. The
! President has now eaten his words and
| recognized CarrsnZa; and through MS
/ private secretary he has issued a de-
/ fence Of and apology for the outrage
/ committed by the Carranzistas and by
/ the other bandits Of the other factions
/ in Mexico, outrsges as Infamous as
( ever were committed by savages any
where under the sun. But ne now
uses the power OF the United States
/ TO help one set Of the bandits respon-
( sible for these infamies against an
/ other set.
an his present message President
Wilson advocates rs necessary certain
propositions for putting this country
/ In 8 state of preparedness TO defend
itself against foreign aggression. In
his message one year ago he said such
propositions were hysterical and I'm.
proper His proposed enlargement OF
the regular army is utterly inadequate.
"He says: we will not maintain a
standing army except for uses which
are as necessary in time OF peace as
in time of war, and we shall always
see to il that our military peace estsb-
li,hment is no larger than is actually
and continually needed for the uses OF
DAYS in which no enemies move against
us What this means ! have no idea,
and ! am certain that no one else has
any idea.
Continental Army" Raped.
"The proposed continental army
cannot produce good results. II is a
proposal that few Of the young men
Of the country shall for two months
every year abandon their work and in
tbe interest of the common defence
train themselves to defend their sue
cessful business rivals who decline to
abandon their work in the interest OF
the common defence. The Presidents
proposal is merely to create an inefii-
+ Giant rlVhl OF the NhtlOHdi ouhtu. -
will damage the national guard with
out achieving any useful purpose what
ever.
"The message does not make clear
what il is-if anything which the
pre,ident proposes in the way OF indus
trial legislation or action. He states
that the transportation problem lies at
the very bottom OF our efficiency as n
neople He seems TO stand, and in one
scntence clearly does stand, for the reg
ulation Of the railways OF the country.
There is AT even greater need OF the
encouragement, and, incidentally, the
ynculation OF industry. We need eff
ciency in railrosding; but II there are
No goods TO carry there is no use in
having carriers; and therefore the
fundamental thing is efficiency in bust
\ ness -, r.u,
| an short, the President fails to make
single constructive recommendation
q. yegard. industry. Our utter lack OF
nrenarednes. 20 meet foreign aggres-
lion i. no greater than our utter lack
~ preparedness 10 meet the industrial
h sr,s. that will be upon US when TINS
ftftEa NhOnln