South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-05-27
PATRIOTISM AND PREPAREDNESS.

That was mighty good bunch that David I. Gull
foyle handed the Rotary club. Wednesday proposing
that instead Of so-called preparedness parade it
would be more appropriate have patriotic parade
July Fourth. 1t seems too from what happened
Thursday night to the preparedness parade program
that has had effect The parade been indef-
initely postponed subject future arrangements"
A patriotic parade the other hand would
be keeping American ideals and COINS
back the lapse Of few years serve
as revival Of American custom. of
pandering to the ideals of Europe. a revival of
presidential campaign customs the disguise of
patriotism.
Why it that all Of a sudden republican friends
frenzed preparedness anyway. after so per
cent of half century at their command-as recently
quoted from ex-Sec'y Treasury Leslie NJ Shaw
under Roosevet-in which to get that which they
now complain against having been left undone. Re-
member too that during Mr.. T. Roosevelt's
verbose administration that navy permitted
to fall behind that of Germany the army lost in
recruits point which it never recovered until
after Prest Wilson took hold All this while too. we
were buying plate at prices ranging II to
S5 per cent higher than was being paid to the
manufacturers by Russia Germany Italy. without
the least effort the part of good republican
friends to find the reason it.
But now the democrats in control OF the govern
ment and almost with the first gun-shot the
European field the republican party grew great
preparedness and Augustus Peabody Gardner,
gresham from down east began to tour the country
and lambast the administration lack of mill
tary and naval equipment And Mr.. T. Roosevelt.
possible if probable republican candidate for the
presidency. began to in the vein. When
Prest Wilson made his the
people administration was not asleep the
preparedness question, definite program
would be worked out, IT looked for time though
the g. p. might shift Undergraduates ex-
treme At the time Of the Sen shivelys funeral
republicans with funeral party
made bones of condemning the president for the
public he had taken, but since that time con-
applied the blue pencil the frenzied
demands of the preparedists-not the presidents but
in two those repubhoans,--so
public stands put through parades are necessary
Politics. is Nothing under the but
politics and the cheapest kind of politics at that
Local people fallen for the dope may be
honest and sincere enough it, but the incep-
ton of the parade movement is republican politics
with dependence upon the frenziedness Of the Amer
lean mind to fall into line? American mimcry-in
some respects a national traits just we'll enough
understood by PSYCHOLOGISTS that conceived the
plan that they have az NJ trouble with the spread
ing and absorption OF their hypnotic suggestion The
parade in New York played up by the press, and then
the i-patriotic fear which the
pie themselves into. and snob desire to
be like the nilitaristic monarches arstocracies
of Europe did the rest the line Of cam
paign dope that the republicans employed through the
distribution calamity press-dope, two years ago,
creating the psychological impression that panic was
at hand. the establishment of the bread
line and soup houses calculated to win the congress
ional campaign OF that year
Indeed too it was hardly to be expected that any
hitch in such a propaganda could be sderacked for
a patriotic parade July Fourth. Neither has it BEEN
but no parade is better than put under false
pretenses II congress had passed the frenzled
preparedis bills that have been presented TO it, this
parade propaganda would be one against extravagant
naval and military tendencies. and the howl would be
that we had gone militarstic without reserve Mr..
GuifoyIe very effectively but at least decidedly
suggestively paradsts that he saw their
bluff and called it-but. OF course. full retreat
TO the legitimate that he proposed would have
been TOO bold admission Of basic cussedness'
THE WOOL FAMINE.