The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-07
GOVERNMENT HEADS
NEED NO ASSISTANCE
President and Congress Thoroughly
Able to Cope With Difficult
Foreign Affairs.
To the Editor OF The State:

The past 18 months have been
fraught with new perplexing political
questions, following each other in such
rapid succession that even our gov
ernment officials have had only lin
tied time in which to consider many Of
them. So far our government has
kept this nation from entangling for
eign complications. The president, the
senate and house of representatives.,
by the constitution, are our legally au-
tnorized representatives for the con-
trol and management Of all the for
eign relationships of this nation. Their
authority has never been questioned,
until the present, but now our country,
amazed at the audacity Of the man,
stands waiting for the showdown OF a
sudden farce that will carry in its trail
a precedent for bolder and bolder as,
saults on the liberties Of our republic,
as men with money behind them lose
sight of patriotism for their own sell
fish purposes.
The present war will pile up in this
country fortunes Of immense proper
ton. And the money power that was
in the hands of the Rockefellers, Car
negie and the Morgans will be divided
out between new and unknown men
who with sudden riches and the lust
for power that money gives will be
eager to press themselves forward.
And in these new and untried hands
We may we'll fear that it will be a
greater danger and menace than it
has been in the past.
We can see in the present peace
movement what money can make Of
man; for without any definite plan
made known to the public, Or even to
those whom he chooses as his asso-
ciates, the promoter of this scheme,
one of our money kings, steps forward
TO change the existing plan of man
aging our foreign relations with other
countries; offers an outing On scale
of such magnifcence, such lavish
display of money, as even startles
those whom he invites to be his as
sociates.
Now, l would like each citizen to
answer this question for himself: Who
Authorized this man of money to play
lie rart of host; who authorized the
selection of his guests, and what quail
! ifcations has he or mis- guests for
membership in a worlds peace con-
ference?
Has any state authority selected as
it's representative one of these guests
invited to attend this peace confer
ence? Has our national government
appointed representative to any such
assembly? Are the interests of the ma
ton in one mans hands? Has man
and his money already grown so AFRO
CANT and powerful that he dares as
sumo such a role?
And every man who accepts the in
vitation and attends this meeting
should ask himself this question: What
am I going for? Is it merely for a
! grand outing-with trip across the
water, the company, the personal
pleasure shall enjoy without it's cost
ing me cent? While at the same
time he must realize the position he
places himself in, the obligation to act
and vote as suits mine host" and will
he not feel also that any set of men,
so gathered together, would make any
action they may take the "joke of the
season.
We want to see peace in Europe.
This war has caused much loss and
disaster to tne South and her pros
perity will be restored only by the
ending of the war. The South is a
unit for peace and so is the United
States. The, constitution places the
control of the foreign relations of this
country in the hands of the president
and congress and any effort at inter-
ference with such control deserves a
stern rebuke with some real punish
ment if the law can reach the crime.
For wealth and money should not en-
wrap man as to render him less liza
Bile for an act dangerous to the life
of the republic than the desperate
who on the Mexican border takes the
life of an American citizen. The one
shoots the man and is caught and
hung; the other with his money in