South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-06-14

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She extended her seizure, searches
and cOnfscations 10 the very waters
OF the United States themselves un-
til she had piled up in our state de-
partment charges Of over $500 vio-
lations of neutrality's law.
But we didn't so TO war. Adams
settled our troubles by negotiation
just as the president Of the United
States is trying TO do today.
When Washington was president
and neutrality first declared. war
cOnvulsed Europe our ships dared
not to put out To sea. commerce was
paralyzed and business depressed.
American passengers and American
crews were thrown into prison and
deprived OF legal rights.
But we didn't go towar Wash
ingtOn settled our troubles by nego-
tiation just as the president of the
United States is trying TO do today
In conclusion this issue. Mr..
Glynn asks.
do the critics of the present ad-
ministration believe that Lincoln
should have risked national disaster
/ by using the sword rather than the
pen in pressing the Alabama claims =?
Are they willing 10 brand Grant as
a coward because he kept Us al
peace with Spain ."
What Others Think.
In answer 10 those who say that
Pres't Wilson's policy does not sat
/ isfy anyone Mr. Glynn replies: He
means that il does not satisfy those
who would map out new and un-
| tried course for this nation TO pur-
sue, but they forget it does satisfy
/ those who believe the United States
/ should live up to the principles it
I has professed for a century and
more.
| Chief Justice White of the
United States supreme court says
/ this policy has given America the
| greatest diplomatic victory Of the
past generation. MaXimilian Har-
I den. Germans noted editor, says
that never once has this republic
violated its neutrality and Gilbert
! X. Chesterton, the famous English
| journalist. says, it is the duty of the
! president Of the United States TO
protect the interests Of the people
| of the United States that he can't
dip his country into hell just to
show the world he has a keen sense
of being an individual saviour
This policy" Mr. Glynn contin-
mes, may not satisfy those who
revel in destruction and find pleasure
in despair. 1t may not satisfy the
! Thereafter or the swashbuckler But
4 it does satisfy those who worship al
/ the altar Of the God of Peace II
! does satisfy the mothers of the land
at whose hearth and fireside no jim
/ gOistic war has placed an empty
/ chair 1t does satisfy the daughters
of this land from whom buster and
| brag has sent no loving brother 10
the dissolution Of the grave. 1t does
satisfy the fathers OF this land and
( the sons Of this land who will fight
/ for our flag. and die for our flag
J when Reason primes the rifle. when
! Honor draws the sword. when JUS
tice breathes a blessing on the stand
ards they uphold.
Fighting for every degree Of i'm
I jury" he maintained, would mean
perpetual war and this is the policy
of our opponents. deny it how they
I will. 1t would give us a war abroad
| each time the fighting cock of the
European weather vane shifted with
the breeze. 1t would make Amer
lea the cockpit OF the world. We
. would be so busy settling other peo-
pies quarrels that we would have
no time To attend to our own bust
ness"
/ preparedness Mr.. Glynn asserts thai
the genius of this country is fol
peace.