The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-03-26
WHY THERE is THE
1.-THE STATE OF MIND
TO WHICH PRESIDENT WILSON
RECENTLY REFERRED.
NATION is HOMESICK

-" SdSCCS6Iui-I TedSQTy Dc
Ie'encies and Emergency Taxes Are
strange Experiences.
President Wilson recently declared
TO group of business men whom he
had summoned to the White House tC
advise with touching some phase Of
the present depressed industrial stu
alton that he was greatly puzzled by
the continued stagnation in the realm
or business movements and that in
his opinion the existing unfortunate
condition of affairs was in great par,
psychological, that it was due to a
state of mind rather than to any
actual causes that could be remedied
or removed.
Arc even from the viewpoint Of
orthodox republicans it will be ad
mittod that there is a great deal oil
truth in President Wilson's state
ment.
If President Wilson has ever beer
homesick; if he has ever been so faI
away from familiar scenes and friend
ly faces as to wish himself back again
with the old home conditions; If he
has ever worried through the days and
spent the nights awake because OF
unhappiness over his strange sur
roundings and through his longing
to be again with those he better knew
if the President has ever undergone
this experience he can realize some
thing of the force and effect of a
state of mind" and he can sym
pathize with very large majority
OF the people of the United States
over their present inconsistencies.
President Wilson knows it to be
true, Of course. that he was not the
choice of majority of the voters OF
this country for the office he now
holds.
He knows it to be true that only
through an unfortunate division of a
great body of voters, who were act
ually united in sympathy and in pur
pose on the more important policies
OF national management and national
legislation, was it made possible for
him to become the nations chief
executive.
1t is therefore true that almost
every political action taken by Presi.
dent Wilson has been in opposition
to the sympathies and the wishes of
d idi Sc hdJoiity vi the peOplt VI tnIS
country.
They respect him as well equipped
scholar and as a high minded gentle
man, and they recognize the defer
ence and the loyalty due to him as
the honored occupant Of our country's
first official position.
But most of the people of the
United States believe that Mr.. Will
sons political theories are not cap
able of successful demonstration.
They know that all efforts in the
past to apply the policies and prin.
ciples of President Wilson's party to
the business and governmental affairs
Of our nation have resulted in fail
ures and disasters.
The great body of the American
people are homesick AS far as the
important affairs OF our government
are concerned.
Perhaps 1t is true that those now in
control are honest and earnest. and II
will not be questioned that they are
hoping for success. But their ways
are different; their methods are pecu-
liar and the policies they are insist
ing upon are not those which through
years gone by have been accompanied
by national prosperity and natioEa
happiness.
They want to go back 10 the better
ways and the happier Amer
loan days.
They are disturbed through days
and nights by national treasury de
fciences and emergency forms o.
taxation They arc distressed by idle
factories and silent mills: by hearinr
the appeals OF the needy for employ
ment and by observing the increas-
ingly long bread lines.
They remember the great body Of
the American people do. that at other
times in the history OF our country
there have been treasury deficiencies
aud emergency taxes and idle work
ing men and long lines of the hungry
and the distressed.
And they recall that these were
times when President Wilson's party
was experimenting on nation, as
he has been doing, with its peculiar
policies and its political theories. And
in the other days as in the present
days these experiments created the
nationwide state of mind" to which
he recently referred, the condition OF
inconsistencies.
Is il to be wondered at that the
people of the United States are anx.
ious to vote again?
That they are eager 10 return with
their country as a whole to the sur.
roundings they better know; to
policies more familiar and more for
tunate and more in harmony with
the genius and the spirit OF American
life?
President Wilson is insisting upon
subjecting the people of the United
States to the results of political
policies they have always opposed
and have found 10 be undesirable
They are away from home, and
most of them are very anxious to
hare our country retrace the steps
Of its last unfortunate political pill
irimage and to begin again along
4 pathway not so troubled with dis.
content and with lack of confidence
and with all the ills and worries that
accompany individual and national
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