Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-12-18
PARTISANsHIP OR PATRIOTISM

Senator Galinger, the Republican leader of the senate, gave assur-
ances to the president a few days ago that the Republicans would CO.
operate sincerely and honestly with the Democrats in carrying III the
national defense program.
Let is hope, says the New York World, that six months hence
Senator Ganinger a say that the Republicans have sincerely and hon
eshy co-operaed with the Democrats on this program, and that no roll
call has shown a partisan division on the question of national defense.
OF one thing every Democratic and every Republican member Of
congress may be sure The work OF this congress will be scrutnzed in
every European capital as the work Of no other congress has yer been.
Europe is taking the measure OF the American people, and it las no
guide except the deliberations OF the peoples representatives in con-
gress: The refusal Of congress to support the president would be IN
terpreted in Berlin, in London, in Paris and in Petrograd as evidence
that the American people were hopeless1y divided Yer on the issue of
national defense, and that no government existed in the United States
which could speak authorhative1y for the people of the United States
or could act authoritatvely in the interests of the United States
Both Germany and Great Britain would instantly seek to capitalize
such a situation-Germany by a more stubborn opposition to the Anert-
a demands in respect to the submarine controversy, and Great Britain
by even or drastic procedure against American trade and American
shipping.
To Berlin, the Bryan and Hearst assaults upon the president are
proof of a widespread pro-German sympathy which is in violent con-
fct with the presidents unyielding attitude toward Germany. To
London, the Roosevelt assaults upon tn president are proof that the
most aggressive element of the American population is opposed %
neutrality and is willing that the fiat of a British cabinet should be
the law of the high seas.
out OF the wal without abandoning any American rights. In spite OF
all the inpatient criticism of Mr. Wilson's diplomacy because it has not
produced instant results in all cases., no right of the United States or its
citizens has been surrendered to anybody. The record is straight and
it will be kept straight, but whether diplomacy proves sufficient to OBJ
tain a unqualified acknowledgement OF all these rights may depend
upon the attitude of congress toward the president than upon
anything he can do.
The organs and the Hearst have already mudded the German stu
alton. Roosevelt is a source OF continuing comfort to the British news
papers that are aggrieved by the American protest against the orders
in council. A divided, a partisan or a n impoteht congress would be
a invitation to foreign aggression such as the United States has nt
known since the Napoleonc wars.
Much more than any program Of legislation is involved in the first
session of the sixtyfourth congress The honor, the welfare and prob
ably the peace Of the United States are all at stake.
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If a mouse and a mouse are mice, and a die and a die are dice
should houses be hGe or flies be flee?