Middletown transcript., 1916-03-18
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mIDDLETOwN, DEL, MAR. ls 1915
EXECUTIVE FOLLY

IN q president gotten the affairs OF
the country, domestic and ferelgn' INTO
.,cb q middle as has Mr. Wilson at this
moment His inconsistent, shlttng
nolicies have bewildered the nation
congress and his own party-indeed' he
has so greatly alienated the support OF
congress, Democratic in both branches
that to secure the passage OF some OF
his most important measures he has
been compelled to appeal to Republl-
cans.
His feeble, vacillating course in the
Lusitania outrage-no nearer settlement
now after the lapse of ten months OF
childish scribbling, than when the massa-
ere occurred-has become the jest and
derision of all Christendom. But worse
still, this cowardly farce of ten months
of paper threats has inclted GermdLy
to the commission of many more sta
murders of our citizens, while like
cowardly sufferance of ambassador
Bernstorff's impudent Interference i'll
our domestic concerns has emboldehed
nro- German traitors and emIssaries all
over the land to perpetrate innumerabe
acts of murder and arson, until this
German propaganda against our country
has found its elimination in bold con-
spiracy to coerce congress into aiding
Germany in her submarine piracies-
into supporting the Kaiser rather than
the President
Until within few months Mr.. Wilson
has opposed any plan to put the countr.
in position to defend itself againsi
foreign attack or insult, but ha
publicly proclaimed the shameful
notions of ''peace at any price, of q
"nation too proud to fight" etc. Now
all of a sudden, after discovering that
Americans would not tolerate this policy
of poltroonery, he executes one OF his
customary "fops" and comes out in a
vociferating tour for preparedness, In
slant preparedness and then gets
angry at his own party in Congress fol
following the very doctrines and policies
he has himself been preaching an
practicing ever since he has been ii
office!
The presidents weak and foolish
policies have hopelessly split his own
party, and may end in embroiling US il
a war with Germany and Mexico. Altho
in Congress, thanks to Republican
votes, he has been able to defeat that
reasonable pro-German conspiracy, yet
the resultant spectacle of a divide'
congress has weakened our nationa
prestige. Yes, the damage has beer
done, and if Germany presumes upoi
this seeming want of union among ou'
people to make further war upon US, or
wretched Mexico, grown contemptuous
because of Mr.. Wilson's silly actions
also does so, the country will have him
to thank for it.
A firm, courageous policy that per
mitted no trifing such as has marked
these dreary ten months of Wilson note
writing with Germany, a policy that
from the very first disclosed the malice
hand beneath the soft glove of diplomacy
such as Cleaveland used towards
England's arrogant CLAIMS in the Vene-
zuela matter, or such as Roosevelt en-
ployed to check Germany's impudence
in the Guatemala Casa statesmanlike
course like that of these two manly
presidents, would have brought Ger
many to her senses, and all this sacri-
flee of the lives and property of our
countrymen here at home and on the
seas, would have been averted. Truly,
had the country been so fortunate in
this crisis to have had Cleaveland or a
Roosevelt in the presidents chair, the
Lusitania together with the rest OF
those practically sunk ocean steamers,
would still be afoat, the thousands Of
slaughtered passengers would yet be
alive, and the pro-German traitor with
torch and tomb would not have dared in
our free land to show his hateful head.
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