The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-11-04

ed with the dangers and difficulties
of the extraordinary times, has dealt
with the nation in such fashion that
the people seek to determine issues
by taking advice from terror and by
finding solutions in avoidance.
War may be good thing or a
bad thing. Cancer Is not a good
thing. tuberculosis is not good
thing. A railroad accident Is not
a good thing. Typhoid fever is not
a good thing. A toothache is a
thing to be avoided. But here Is
the point: Life is not a perfectly ra-
tional composition of good acts and
intents having as consequence hap
piness and physical we'll being. 1t
Is a thing which the human being
must face with fortitude. In his ex-
pectancy must be included some suf-
fering and some sorrow. 1t is the
aim Of a rational human being to
be prepared by spiritual and mental
discipline. by physical fortitude and
by courage. to meet the unavoidable
misfortunes without whimpering.
II the individual loses the attrib-
utes which would enable him to face
his future and accept what agonies
may come. knowing that some must
come. he is lost. The individual does
not like to be conscious, obvious
coward. He knows that IL he is a
conscious coward. he has lost self
respect; with the loss of self-respect
he has lost his protection. He is not
only exposed to the dangers he tried
to avoid but they have taken hide
Gus form in his Imagination; they
are constantly with him and his crav-
en- existence marks the fact that he
lives.
A nation need not think that 1t
live upon other terms than such as
are necessary to self-respecting in
Lividual existence. II 1t is a terrible
thing for an individual to lose forti-
tude. 1t is terrible thing for a
nation to lose its forti-
tude. 1t is a terrible thing for any
man or any set of men to have res
possibility for demoralizing a nation.
We say that Mr.. Wilson is destroy
ing the morale Of the American ma
ton. He is doing 1t and the Demo-
cratic campaigners are doing it in
his and their behalf.
They have spread the gospel of
fear. Any one may verify this by
few citizens. or poss-
IDLY by little self-analysis. The
United States is not a confident ma
ton. 1t is an alarmed and timorous
nation. 1t Is afraid. Even its bulk
and its wealth. its potential but I'M
developed strength. do not protect 1t
from its own alarms.
It wants TO avoid things, not as
sert things. 1t imagines II Is ideal
lstic. but its ideals are evaporating.
1t is travelling in the direction of
yrossness and cowardice. Its larg-
est political emotion now is one of
fear.
The fact that the United States
has avoided war is a good thing.
The fact that 1t is having its courage
and confidence broken down is a very
bad thing. He kept us out Of war"
Is the most denoralizing political
cry that the American people have
heard in fifty years. The appeal to
fear is the most damaging political
appeal that could be made. The Will
son campaign is corrupting the peo-
pie. 1t is asking them to surrender
fortitude and self-respect.
The people who succumb to this
appeal need not delude themselves.
They are not only yielding to an alb
surdity but they are debasing them
selves. BY SO doing they will not
avoid anything which may be in store
Tor the American nation but they
are doing their part to make the
nation wholly unfit to meet
what may be avoidable. - Chicago
Tribune.