The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-11
WILSON AND POPE CAN'T
WIN
Former Talks Too Much Without Acting, Latter Lacks
Courage of Opinion, Says French Ex-Premier-
Has Confidence in American People.

when no might BE- acting. Poor human
Pope of an all too human democracy.
Besides his fulcrum he has also this
advantage. that tho lever V In his hand.
that he 10 the representative of b as
pirations Of humanity, beautiful and un.
realised though they BE-. II he
merely take high ground. II he
merely lend his speech to his doctrine
even without drawing the sword-a thing
no ono ever asked OF him-if he would
but let the soul Of his " countrymen
speak through him more clearly thai the
voice Of the financial interests he wouio
Of himself and by himself marshal the
forces Of the world and make them work
his will with q power which even the
greatest Pores havs failed to WELD. bun
he dares not, even a. the dAree
not. though sustained by his powerful
humanitarian doctrines.
A We watch him We are appalled, by
his lack Of energy. Tho worst 10 that
he talks. We hear him only too often.
why then does he talk? To plead alter
proclaim at the tor Of hts lungs his In.
difference to his own principles In the
name Of mercantile interests. which mer-
camille interests I DO not pretend 10
despise when they are rated In their
proper place among human concerns.
The Lusitania AFFAIR was for all civil
i~lxation a question Of humanity. .
Mr. Wilson himself could not prevent
himself from Whispering this word.
though he withdrew II at c and
turned the matter into a dispute between
America end Germany on the point
whether william H.. having the right to
murder humanity In heaps on tho high
seas. should run the risk Of adjoining his
holocaust with American victims also.
relying on his book Of International law.
the inheritor Of the Declaration OF In
dependence. which pretends to have eet
the pattern for all human society. put
over which the students of the future
will not grow pale. "
Not that he has not occastonally Ut
tered . good thought and even made .
point which his boche opponents never
fairly met. but because the whole thing
was a babbie OF words ard the man had
no intention Of pushing his arguments
to a rupture. Of translating them into
deeds. On both sides II was a deluge
OF words. In which the Presidents elo-
Quence ~foundered beneath the over
towering verbosity Of the Wilhelm
straese.
Without receiving any satisfaction for
his demands and Just whom the German
insolence was let loose on the United
States In a Thousand forms n when
the White House was Obliged to close Its
doors to Or. Domba the excellent Mr..
Wilson shut up. His powers Of dis
sertation were then exhaustedf Not at
all. for behold him At London presenting
new memorandum In which ho prides
himself on %espOusing the opposite cause.
This time his complaint 10 that the Eng
lish blockade IL not effective" because
new inventions in ava architecture may
have results which Mr.. Wilson had not
foreseen. 1t Is the opposite claim to that
which Lincoln made against England
during the civil war. Tho American
Government thus refutes itself In ad-
vance. But I have. however, no inten.
ton OF stirring up this mess.
In the Lusitania matter. no mag
nlficently followed up by the torpedo
ing of the Ancona. human lives only were
at stake In the present remonstrance
II Is a question OF cotton. OF the cotton
which william II. needs In order to sink
other Lusitanias and other Anconas. Of
the cotton which the French and Eng
lish seize n pay for In order to avoid
the very catastrophes over which the
American President has been weeping
diplomatic tears.
Inasmuch as II Is only the Allies that
are concerned in this last remonstranc
that Is to say only civilized peoples
and no longer the great modern bar
barism of Germany-Mr. Wilson an
nounces up and down that he will not re-
spect our blockade. He loudly pro-
claims his intention Of fighting n neces-
sary. His zeal hsis probably overshot
the mark. Cotton growers are not tho
only inhabitants Of the great republic,
and that republic draws certain advan-
tages from the war.
Let President Wilson talk on-sincs
we must make up our minds to it-and
let US nave confidence In the American
people. who will In the end know how 10
| push him Into action.