Middletown transcript., 1915-05-01
WILSON'S BLUNDERS

w ces the country will owe this
weak and foolish Administration at its
clOsel 1t policies, equally at home and
abroad, have in the main been mistaken
and disastrous.
Its bungIing of the tariff-in another
way as far from the. true mean as the
Dingley tariff-has cost the manufac-
turing and general business interests of
this country dearly.
Indeed, but for the godsend of this
great European War, things would have
been very much worse!
But for those unprecedented demands
from Europe, of war munitions and
other materials this country would
have had four years of Nilson-Bryan
dry rot or worse, of downright panic.
The Administration financial policy
has already fallen about $1OO, 600, 900
short of meeting the expenses of the
National government and although Con-
gress, Democratic in both branches,
boasted long and loud of its intention
to reduce those expenses, it has in fact
increased them! Nor can this fiscal
blunder be charged to the war. for this
Democratic regime was $1OO, 900, 900 in
the hole in July before the war broke
out.
So we have a war tax, not because of
war at home or abroad, but because we
\ have something about as bad for bust
lness-a Democratic Administration!
Its weak, hating Mexican policy has
cost American interests there a billion.
of money, and worse still 300 American
lives, and finally, repeated insults to
our flag, invited by Bryan's folly and
swallowed with disgusting equanimity.
In violation of his own party plat
form and of his reiterated declarations
from the stump, president Wilson did
further damage to the business of his
own country in going out of his way to
hamstring American commerce by pre-
senting England with equal rights to
the Canal which $4OO, 900, 900 of Ameri-
can money had built.
But these are minor evils which the
wisdom of later Republican adminis-
tration can largely remedy-at any rate
without recourse to the bloody arbitra-
ment of war-but Bryan's weak
trucking to the cunning Japs has en-
couraged that unscrupulous nation to
attempt the spoliation of China, which
perfidy once accomplished will deprive
this country of the vast commercial
and trade benefits which under the
''open door" policy would have been
realized.
Thus in few months the cap-and-
bells folly of this mountebank Bryan
will have undone the invaluable, and
far-reaching good which the wise states
manship of Secretary Hay after much
effort had succeeded in accomplishing =
loss which some day will need to be
recouped with precious American blood
AS if it were not enough that Bryan
by his cowardly silence had encouraged
these Japanese outrages upon the
feeble China, he must also actively
assist by going in person to California
TO insult and browbeat that sovereign
state into tamely suffering Japanese
impudence to enroach upon the rights
of its own citizens
Never before was the office of Secre-
tary of State thus prostituted to the ig-
noble task of aiding and abetting a for
eign nation assault one of the states
which under the constitutional compact
of the Union the National Government
is sworn to protect, as when Secretary
Bryan attempted to force the state OF
California to wrong its youth by per.
mitting grown up Japanese men to sill
in its public schools alongside of Young
boys and girls!
Quite naturally this conspicuous Co
wardice and disloyalty to American in
terests has awakened the contempt o.
foreign nations that on all hands ar,
treading on Uncle Sans toes. Wha
can you expect of a foreign polio,
whose mouthpiece, Secretary Bryan, il
not ashamed to declare that under n,
circumstances would this country 90 t,
war;! A weak Secretary-a veal
army-a weak navy-everthing weak