The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-05
ACCUSATIONS THAT DESTROY EACH OTHER


 ACCUSATIONS THAT DESTROY EACH OTHER yX7HEN NATIONS seriously dispute with each other there Nv but two ways which the dispute be settled it is not to be submitted the arbitration of neutral powers The settlement may be made by negotiation noe writ E Mr. Hughes and Mr. Roosevelt eoemptuouy describe operations of diplomacy resort may be had < 0 force, Ess es't-;S S.f f.ttis. sy rA I The settlement must be by negotiation and diplomacy Neither Roosevelt Hugheshav the moral age say many worlds i've would go to war; either in Europe Mexico Their campaign would be respectable Both speak biting irony writing They demand wordsp otherwise they think wrong the president to continue the diplomatic method and that they think the of the country demands
 MT Roosevelt few days declared that far Bel concerned he would not have put the United States ino war; he would merely "seize all the German ship nerned n \ th country" 1si Mr. Roosevelt knows that such act could mean nothing less than war; if it could be accomplished.
 The German ships in this country private property They subject to seizure, the New York World has sad than Prof Mnsterberg watch The courts appealed to by private owners nterned would order them 1returned in the absence of a state of zfss
 The course Roosevelt now says he would take would of course, war
 Belgium, is not bound to make for Begums rescue against the nations historic policy do and against it's mediate interest
 The has involved than billion and half beings who sixsevenths of the armament of the world.
 That America with hundred million people, and less than seventh of the armament should attempt to police the of mankind the disordered imagination
 America has special duty togo with force to the aid of the oppressed continents it should have gone the the cruelty treated avages of the Congo to the Amenans Turkey to the Jews in Russia and to the Irish in Ireland
 What possible claim be made for duty toward Bel that equally be made duty toward oppression 7 everywhere and in every form?
 Very cunning these gentlemen who the oppressed of Europe Back of them stand the other gentlemen who much opposed for the of the X United States
 Mr. Hughes turns his carefully parted whiskers toward < who andsO npoh them that substantially every newspaper printed German language in America, supports him.
 On the other side stands Mr. Roosevelt talking substance for Germany and attempting to bring into the fold those other sorey tried citizens who sympahze with the tsh Allies.
 The same taccJ are employed the same way in other fields In the south is named Tom Watson who paper the violent anti Catholic tendencies paper which fair minded New England scarcely read without shame that American write of other
 In the West is violent Cohoic newspaper known The Menace. va
 These papers with each other appealing bgotry against Wilson, whom heydescribe agent the Also certain papers, like the Gaelic American strong ly pro-Cathoc tendencies which hitherto fairly their presentation of their views These newspapers denounce the president bigo and Catholic hater
 Copies all publications being numbers, where they will do the most good"
 The appeal dead hareds to long buried rancors to all most forgotten feuds, does not end here.
 Another class of men, of whom Congressman E. J. Hill of th the Fourth District type waving the bloody shirt They trying revive the hatreds of the Civil War They say that Wilson is for the South and not North They appeal to New England to "avoid Southern Domination"
 These fine patriotic gentlemen, are they not? The trouble with their scheme is simple It is too comprehensive They make too demands the creduty of the people,
 They claim Mir Wilson is proGerman, because he doesn't fight Germany and of German sympathes asked to vote for him.
 They claim pro-B British, because he negotiated with cessation of submarine adventure against ships carrying Americans because he has suspended on the high seas
 One crowd cries nosy that the president is bgot and Catholic hater-