Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1915-06-16
THE SUNS ANTI-WILSoN COLUMN.
The Question is Would There be ANY
We're the Suns Founder Living?


am gratified to see that The Cap
ital, in common with the vast major
ity Of the reputable papers in the
country. has ranged itself behind the
President in his efforts for the observ-
ance of international law by the war
ring nations, and for the protection Of
American citizens in all their rights.
both under the laws of this country
and the laws of nations.
In the stand thus taken by The
Capital, and the press generally. part
~ lines are obliterated. and the rally
ing cry is our Country First" Il
is regretted that an exception should
be found in our own State. and that
the exception should be such paper
as the Baltimore sun For some rea-
son, best known 10 itself. il devotes =
column a day to belittling and ridi-
culing Mr. Wilson and the policies of
his administration; especially in re-
gard 10 the policy toward the Euro
pean nations now al war. Ii is not
meant that the one column mentioned
contains nothing but abuse OF the
President but that the general trend
of the column is in that direction
If there has been a word OF com
mendation spoken by The sun in its
Anu-Wilson column for the Admins
tration in its hard task Of keeping the
country out of war and protecting the
rights of our own people and the ma
tional honor I have failed to read il.
On the contrary. its Anti-Wilson col
umn has not a line of rebuke for the
sinking of the Lusitania, no word of
blame for those who sent to death
without moments warning defense
less non-combatants- women and ba-
bies. To the amazement of people who
have regarded The Sun as, i'm one sense
a home production and an example OF
the enterprise of that prominent
Marylander, the late Arunah s. Abel.
this awful massacre, this up-to-date
slaughter of the innocents. has been
implicitly, if not expressly. justified
by The Suns Anti-Wilson column.
II has said, in effect, OF the victims
and their bereaved friends: 1T was
their own fault. They had been warn
ed. If they had stayed at home they
would not have been hurt" Not a
word of blame for the twentieth cen
fury Herod; he is fighting for his
life with his back to the wall " Fight
ing for his life" defending himself
from war-like mothers and Zero
cious babies. In his desperate strug-
gle, drowning the mother with her
children at her knees; strangling the
babe at the breast changing the milk
from natures fount for the choking
flood of ocean brine. Heroically fight
ing for his life against babes and
stockings, he at last vigorously van
quishes them. and, amid the plaudits
of his countrymen, he sees them sink
in the deep with bubbling groan, UNI
knelled, uncodined and unknown"
Perhaps he slept more comfortably
the night after the victory. He was
not annoyed by any calls for mercy,
by any appeals for help. No crying
babies disturbed his rest. nor that
of the publishers OF The Suns Anti
Wilson column. There was no voice
of Rachel weeping for her children
for the voice of Rachel is stilled for
ever by the champion who fought
against her for his life. It IS well for
DIR. Wilson" to see himself as The
Suns Anti-Wilson column sees. him
Perhaps then he will cease his mis-
guided efforts to protectAmerican citi-
zens in their rights and to uphold the
honor of the flag
He must try and forget his murdered
countrymen; he must not see in i'm
agination the rows of tiny mounds
which will never be filled by the tiny
bodies now rocked in the cradle Of
the deep" He must not dream of their
ghosts as pointing accusing fingers
at him and saying thou art the mani"
Leave that TO the hero who, with his
back to the wall" fought them to the
death. Leave it to him-and The
Suns Anti-Wilson column.
BY the way if the founder of the
paper were now living. would there be
any Suns Anti-Wilson column?
(Signed)
SCOTT LANE HEFFENGER.
A,a~.-,ls-