The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-19

gest to him that II was a happy Oc-
casion for his classic remark about
being too proud to fight" am
tempted to think that MIR. Wilson did
himself an injustice when he said
he was willing to fight" either for any
great cause or on account Of any
wrong hereafter done to this country;
and that the truth was expressed the
other day by his eager eulogist, Sec
rotary Baker. when he said that he
vas glad" that mo one could insult
Mr.. Wilson and make him go to war
PROFESSIONALLY General CarranZa,
and probably Herr Won Tirpitz, hearth
ly agree with Secretary Bakcr-and
deep down in his own heart ] am in
clined to believe that Mr.. Wilson him
self also agrees with him.
Elliot Rldiculed.
Two Of Mr.. Wilson's most disting-
uished champions. one official and one
official take the same view. Sec
rotary Lane stated that the fact that
american citizens have been Killed
by outlaws and bandits" wasa proper
subject for much regret" hut not
for sacrificing the blood OF our sons"
Does he think that n woeful allusion
~ regret" is the way to move ban
dts? Or. Charles W. Eliot, former
president of Harvard. praises Mr.. Will
son for having made great con-
tributinn to the peace Of the world
and TO the promotion NJ humane and
Just dealings between nations" by
having gone far 10 establish as the
American policy the policy Of nOn-in-
tcrycntion by force of arms for the
protection Of miners, commercial adj
vcnturcrs. inventors and workmen in
foreign parts" and by having refused
to adopt the "malign suggestion" to
protect the lives of these men by
punitive expeditions and compelled
agreements Reduced to concrete
terms. this statement of DR.. Eliot Is
that President Wilson is greatly to
be praised because he took no action
when some nineteen misunderstanding.
hard working and totally unarmed
American miners. and engineers were
taken from railroad train. tortured
and murdered by an armed Mexican
force. DR.. Eliot has been severe
censor Of political morals. strong in
politicians and damagogic labor lead
ers; but no corrupt boss. no crooked
politician or labor leader, no con
scienceless capitalist, has ever
preached or practiCed a more degrad-
ing doctrine, a doctrine more ruinous
to the soul and the manhood Of this
nation, or more destructive to hui
mainly and Justice in the world at
large. than the doctrine thus set forth
by this former college president. There
can he no more severe condemnation
of Mr. Wilson than to say that he is
not unworthy OF such praise. Ameri-
can women are raped and American
murdered in Mexico; Ameri-
can men are tortured to death, hum
drcds OF our people are slain; con-
tinual forays are made into our own
territory; Mexico itself is utterly de-
yastated and its people slaughtered
by the hundred thousand; and DR.. FL
liot denounces as a "malign SUCCESS
ton" any proposal to put stop to
these horrors in the only way by
which II is possible to stop them. It'll
would he unfair to China to compare
DR. Eliot with even an old-school
Chinese statesman. II he really rep
rescnts the American people, then let
us by all means abandon the Monroe
Doctrine. and preparedness and pa
triotism and every form of manliness,
national and individual; let us leave
Mexico to be set straight by Germany
or England or Japan; and let us sit
in helpless folly at home until some
virlle nation makes us what we would
under such conditions deserve 10 he !
the hewers of wood and the drawers
Of water for alien conquerors. But
II we Americans are fit sons OF our
sires. II we are worthy of our fore
fathers Of the days of Washington, il
we are entitled to claim kinship with
the valiant souls who wore the blue