The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-30
Points Out AS Great National Error
the Lack of a Better Trained and
Equipped Citizen Army

I D'lllll Cllt0 lc tha
! policy Of all these Americans. whoa
fathers quilted Europe so that thov
might be free.
The Government, on tn, o.h,.
hand. has departed from this po.icr
| have not overlooked the difficult,
in its path, It's efforts or It's mrrt,
but, this much being granted. IL bs,
marched away from the star IN.
: stead of toward IL. and IL has ror,
contrary to the aspirations II IA.
country; and the various stages o.,
this march have been eNccssv We nro,
lection, the war with Spain, colonl.,
and ornaments.
THE American Government Ia,
taken the wrong line, and. like ali
Governments. instead of admitting N,
mistake in time. it has obst.natey
adhered 10 its course and sunk deeper
in the quagmire. While the country
has kept its ambition on a level with
the idellism attained by It's energe,,
founders, the Government has yieliai
20 the temptation to sink below tina.
level. and has enormously supposed
that the lower would be the mora
~
popular.
1T was a very youthful. seductive
and perhaps unconscious imper a',,m
under President Roosevelt bud.
ding imperialism: hut the buds bora
fruit under his successor, who copld
either approve of It's cncr0chncn;s
MOI moderate them 1t has .xcl'ei
the alarm Of the Republican elite
whore strong objections ! have IN.
derlined and | was thinking q .ns
eli. @ when I said that they wcr. m,-,
in harmony with the Democrats than
witt their own party; but they have
been powerless to stem the tide.
THE result is none the le's clea,
and is to be found in the 1917 Pres.
idential election. The Republicans
were split into two bodies. both fore.
doomed to defeat. one, with very
mixed feelings. followed Pres!der;
Roosevelt, and the other gave a hal.
hearted support to President IT,,
while the country gave an overwhelm.
ing plurality to the Democrats, Tho
party of protest.
The 1912 election was an ou,hr-ss
of public opinion, which was tired d.
and in revolt against what had been
going on. That this is true was shoVa
at once when the new President asked
Congress to revise the tariff and s-
lected William Jennings Bryan, tho
declared enemy Of ornaments. az Sec.
rotary OF State. But this rcvo,, Il
public opinion is anything hut revoll.
tionary and Is. on the contrary, quite
opposed To any such idea.
The policy It requires has nothing
to do with any ~dcmagog!g threats
1t contains nothing new and nothing
that is not normal or reassIr!nc Il
amounts tn n condemnation q tie
errors that George Washiug'.a tried
TO avert beforehand ny deH9unrl7s
them as 'apostasy.'
at was the protest OF a country
that is pulling itself togcthrr. r,fls.
ing to let itself he led i,'rty any
longer from its enormal' natural
sphere Of action or To- rush H'rl'T
into adventurous scheme = foreign
conquest. II implies a roy'rS.on. d;
last. to the Mount Vernon spirit 1rl
To the policy " safety without whI'h
the United States would hc 'd'Se .
their origin. their name ana 'H'.r des'
tiny, and would become an ephomerl
C~aricature Of countless ruined en-.
pires.
THE success Of this policy Is ~ =.
highest interest to Europe. II b, IN.
portant that the great transatlantic
republic should 50 act as 10 stand