The farmer and mechanic., 1915-08-31
UphOldS President Wilson.

CphOIds President Wilson.
Mr.. Edison, in reply to q question
declared President Wilson's stand alb
soluteiy correct on the German sub
marine situation, yet he regretted that
Americans added serious burdens to
the Chief Executives efforts to pre-
serve neutrality by insisting upon |
ttaNellnS aboard steamships of bellig- /
erent countries which pass through |
the war zone named by the Teutons.
They have no sense to place us in |,
position where we might have trou- |
ble,' said Mr.. Edison, land my ad-
VICE to American travellers is to keep
Oft vessels of belligerents. Why not
go on board vessels flying the Amer
ican flag? Or they might as we'll 20
Oh a belligerents war vessel They
would be safer there
HoWever, this does not condone
the action of submarines in torpedo
ing passenger ships and risking lives
OF noncombatants without giving
! them chance for their lives. l think
1t is very bad thing for the German
naval authorities to do. There GER
| talnly is no gain in having these pas
sengers drown, and it is foolish, too,
for the Germans to injure their repu-
tation in warfare. If they cannot
give necessary warning to passengers
on a ship they plan to sink, owing to
means l would say let that ship go,
and get another which might be de-
stroyed without sacrificing innocent
lives. If they want to get these ships
there are enough enemy craft to at
tack without sinking the ones with
large numbers of passengers. They
are justified in sinking enemy ships
carrying contra band, but have no
right to sink the passengers.
Condemns the Arabic AtrOcity.
''The Arabic, 1 understand, was
bound for this country, and even
though it had been used as an ammu-
milton ship and was on a return voy-
age the submarine should not have
risked the lives of passengers on
board"
The United States will be slow in
going to war over the submarine out
RACES, Mr.. Edison believes and he sees
no need for this country's entrance
, into the European cataclySm.
nl Il would be slow to take umbrage
o at the talk or mistakes of a man who
q | is fighting mad" said the inventor
i"Germany has done many things she
n would not do when normal because
4 the country is fighting mad now
: | Now get me straight on that point
said Mr.. Edison with emphasis. 81
q don't wish to state the country is in
o toXicated but fighting mad, and she
is not normal and not acting normal
4 | l would take a good deal of tall
q from an individual in that condition
" satisfied he was not in a rationa
q | frame of mind.
q The Germans are now mad cleal
:, through, and we must take that fac
v into consideration. They think the.
a are all right in their stand; | thinl
they are all wrong"
r. 'Oh, I'd like to see Germany re
It public, with the people electing thei
# own president. Now, they Nigh
\, elect the Kaiser He's a pretty abl
= man, but l don't like his moral prin
!; ciples in this affair. The peopl
J. should rule-not a Kaiser; not !.
=, clique Of military folk-allied wit
% the great business combinations i
q Germany"
Al Everywhere in Europe you will Sc
If democracies spring up after this ter
q rible war is over, and these are need
ed, not the least, by the way, in Rus
~ sia. The people may for a time max
- mistakes in their own government
certainly; but the bungling will b
their own mistakes, and the govern
is mentS their own governments.
~ Denies CarbOlic Sales.
ar Of the published references to a
I'd legged sales of Mr.. EdiSonS carbol
al acid for use by the Germans, by Ed
lv son said he had sold none for the
I'D purposes. If any of his products WeI
MS purchased for warning nations
:" would be only through third parties
n MY manufactures are intended e.
d. clusvely for peace purposes M
10 Edison added.
be OF the lynching Of Frank Mr.. Ed
ms son said:-
,iS THAT was a horrible mistake 3,
ed fore we criticise too strongly repOr
TO of Belgian horrors we must rememb'
a these events have nothing on Geo
re gia. Any people who have the rigl
he to vote and correct all their evils, b.
Sc do as was done in Marietta ha7
he mlgnty poor thihhinS cdpdcity; Ihe, {,
~ courts may do. If the courts
ve things not to their liking why the pc
,,e pie should use their votes TO mai
of them do what is right. This lynchil
- b.- q xrooh iS the naoatiOn of all La