Middletown transcript., 1915-10-09
.IDDLETOwE, DEL, OCT. ., 1915
DEMOCRATIC BLUNDERS

hid ever any administration " axe so
- many serious blunders as this pres
ent one? From the president down to
each of his cabinet heads incompetency
and laundering have marked almost
every department.
Here are a few of Mr.. Wilson's.
After advocating in his party's plat.
form and on the stump the retention of
the provision in the Panama canal tolls
tavoring American cOastwise commerce
as president he reverses himself, and
dragons a Democratic Congress into
repeating this provision-for Eng
lands benefit and to his own country's
injury.
His Mexican policy, his much vaunted
"Watchful waiting" has been an utter
failure that has made a bad situation
worse and cost the country dear in
money and in the lives of its citizens.
His foreign policy both as to England
and more especially as to Germany,
has been weak and contemplate and
lowered the national prestige.
He promoted and forced the passage
of the ruinous Seamen's Act that has
driven American ships clean off the Pa
cific Ocean.
He favored and still favors, the un-
wise Ship Purchase Bill, and means to
do his best to force Congress to enact
into law that wretched piece of legisla-
tions whose folly has been as clearly
shown as was that of the Seamen's
Act bill.
Policies or statesmen like views, MIR.
Wilson has none. A short time ago he
decried building up an adequate navy
and arny-today, when the whole coun-
try, alarmed at Germany's brutal rape
of Belgium, and her outrages against
all neutral commerce and her murders
of our citizens, is demandinga navy fol
protection he again reverses himself!
At the outbreak of the warm Europe
Mr.. Wilson foolishly tried to forbid al
commerce snd trade with the Allies
particularly insisting that no munitions
of war be sold to them. Now, an over
whelming public sentiment has forced
him to back out from that foolish anC
untenable position. But column coulC
not recite all the bunders he has made
Postmaster General Burleson in hi
cheese-paring attempt to save few
dollars to lessen the huge and daily in
creasing deficit, has crippled the posta
service.
Bryan's absurd antics in the Stat
Department brought fresh shame. ant
humiliation to the nation.
The Secretary of the Treasury Nc
Adoo is trying by dishonest Juggling
of his accounts to hide the fiscal blum
dering that has put the Ship of Stat
on lee shore.
But perhaps the biggest blunderer i
this cabinet of incompetents is Secre
tary of the Navy Daniels, who has tn
audacity to override the advice of navf
experts whose whole lives have bee
spent in the service.
This editor of a small newspaper i
Raleigh, N. c., who admitted he knel
nothing about naval matters more tina
the average country editor, put in sol
control of this great branch of tn
country's service-the Navy!
Against the protests of naval eng
neers he sends the submarine F. wit
% men to their certain death, and cer
sures the officer who warned him ths
the type F. submarine was very unsaf,
One of the officers on board that fat
craft wrote a letter to his home in Cal
fornia saying that they were being SCI
in their floating coffin to find the
grave in the oceanf
Now after those poor fellows ha'
been drowned like~rats in a hole tn
ignorant but conceited Secretary of Il
Navy has ordered all of the F. subma
ines to be withdrawn as defective!
These are few of the costly folli
being committed by the utterly inc
pable and laundering set of greenbor
who are pretending to run this gre
government Of ours.
Fortunately it is rich and strong a
the time wherein this junta of stupi
can play their idiotic pranks in short
the consequences might be serious
deed.