The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-11-04

Backward or forward? Peace
with honor; or the hazard of war?
A few days more and American
voters must decide.
| When the shouting and the tumu11tt
of the campaign have ceaseu and So
ber Judgment, with patriotism for
it's guide, is called upon to say whe-
ther or not there shall be change
| in the administration of the repuD-
lie, what will the answer be?
This country today has prosperi-
ty that no other ever in all history
experienced, and it's people are happy
An old order has given way to a
new, which has quickened the ma
tion's impulses and given it new
courage and new hope.
Under President Wilson's admin
| istration the knell of an age OF in
equality and servitude has rung and
an age of equality and brotherhood
has dawned.
Legislation has been written into
our statute books which has giveE
more liberty to the citizen. broken
down the barriers of caste and made
opportunity the property alike of all
men.
| Invisible government has disap-
peared into the limbo of things that
were and hidden hands no longer
steer the Ship of State.
With practically all the rest of the
world in the death struggle of a
war that history cannot parallel and
| for which posterity for countless
generations must suffer and bear the
burden, this country has been kept
safely secure in peace and its sons
are alive to help, when the time
comes, to build up the desolation
that shall have been brought to the
unfortunates OF the European ca
tastrOphe.
President Wilson has kept us out
of war The frenZied brawlers OF
the opposition, with foam upon their
lips and thunder in their voices. de-
clare that his conduct was cowardice.
If so, it was the 'cowardice" of loft
| lest courage, of real greatness, of
prayerful patience, of humanity.
His prescience has enabled him to
see something nobler than bloodshed,
more glorious than destruction.
There is a grander destiny than
war ahead of the American people,
and this President Wilson has seen;
destiny which involves the cessa
| tion of all wars, the brotherhood in
peace of all the nations.
| The Democratic party during the
past four years has shown itself to
| be a great constructive party.
The remedial legislation which it
| has enacted is what the people of
this country for half century have
wanted and needed They are now
aded ri ]. vi ron vote 10 turn
them the other way !?
During his administration, he has
compromised with no heresy, has
! locked arms with no undesirable. but
has stoood squarely for America
| first, and firmly against those enc
mics and plotters in our nation who
would have the country's policies
dictated from foreign shores.
During this campaign, the Presi-
| dent has been criticised and attacked
by his chief opponent, immediate
predecessors in his high office, and
others, after manner that surely
can make but poor appeal to those
who love fair play and value plain
| honesty in controversy.
Serene in the consciousness of his
own patriotism and in having done
his duty, the President has made
never an appeal to passion or to
| prejudice, or even to partisanship.
He is a Democrat, but far above
that, he is an American.
He is a party man, but beyond
that, he is patriot.