Arizona republican., 1916-10-12
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY

hut if we had taken such action it
 would have become our duty, duty
 then easily performedsto instantly and F fully protect our property rights.
 Many men question whether. 1t will ever again be safe for nations to be-
 come inter defendant by allowing
 themselves so far as their necessities
 are concerned, to depend upon foreign
 sources of supply. The theory of
 having each nation or group of na- tions build a Chinese wall around it's
 borders is being discussed because of
 the, complete breakdown or the code Of international rights. The respon- sibility for this breakdown rests pri- marilv on the Pontius Pilatc-like con- Struction which President Wilson has put upon neutrality. Now the war
 has been carried to our very shores, 1 there is no American who does not realize the awful tragedy of our in- difference and inaction. Nine -tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. By | taking the right step at the right
 time Americas influences and leader ship might have been made a stabilize ing force. President Wilson's ignohle shirking of responsibility has been clothed in an utterly misleading
 phrase, the phrase of a coward, He kept Us out of war In actual real | ity war has been creeping nearer and
 nearer, until it stares at us from just l beyond our three mile limit and We i face it without policy, plan, purpose
 or preparation. No sane man can
 today be so blind as to believe Presi- 1 dent Wilson's original statement that | 1 the war was no concern of ours. Ev- l ! cry thinking man must realize the |
 uttel futility of craftsmanship | without plan or policy until such |
 facts as tlese now stare il In the | face
 Ridder Gives the Lie
 In signed statement today, M~ | | Victor Ridder of the New York !
 Staats Zeitung, denies absolutely the
 story made public by Norman Hap l 1 good of the Wilson independent | league to the effect that MT Rider i
 has told state Senator Keller of nli- | l nols, that he had written Q campaign speech for MT Hughes in which Mr. Hughes would attack England in order
 to Told the German vote MT. Rdder ! eays there WAS q meeting between I himself and Senator Keller but that knowing Mir. Keller he had witnesses present and he has the written state I ment of one of the witnesses. Mir ! fendy Abels of New York, that no such remarks as are credited to him ny Keller and Hapgood, were ever
 made.
 Instead. Keller was endeavor-
 ing tO persuade Mir. Bidder to cal on | President Wilson at the White House
 and assured Mr. Ridder that MT. Vii l son can convince you. in the course
 of an hour or two, that he is friendly
 to Germany MT. Ridder declares that
 MT. Keller for his own purposes will fully placed words in my mouth
 which Were never spoken" having
 disposed of this canard, Mir. Ridder
 goes on to make some extremely in
 teresting disclosures concerning the
 efforts of the Wilson administration
 to carry favor secretly with the Ger
 man-American voters whom MT. Wil-
 son publicly brands as disloyal He
 says that Mr. Abeles happened to be
 present at the netting with MT. Kel-
 Ter, having called as in the bearer If
 an invitation from Senator Stone.
 chairman of the foreign relations com
 mittee of the senate to discuss tn.
 questions of the compaign at q gath 1 ering of influential German Ameri- cans arranged at Terrace Garden that very evening" l declined the invita- ton. Mr Abeles immediately called Up Senator stone from tfe Staats Zeituug office and told him that I had declined. Senator stone then spoke to me saying that he would regard t Gs 2 personal favor not only to come myself but also to bring influential German Americans with me Under the circumstances l felt that We should at least hear what Senator Stone had to say and SO a number of us gathered at Terraca Garden for elmer at Soclock on September 16 as the guests of MT. AbeIes. Senator Stone used all his well known powers of persuasion to convince us that the | "pOarent anti German American of the Wilson administration were only for public consumption and that pri- ! Vatelv they were ready to work hand in glove with the German American leaders
 The whole object of the con- terence so far as Senator Stone Was Il concerned, was to find out what. Ic- \ tion Was necessary on the part of the administration in order to secure 4 the support of German Americans Tt \ the coming election. Can anything \ he more humiliating than the spec | tacle of the chairman of the foreign | relations committee of the senate | gumshoeing in small room of a Third avenue beer garden and barter | ing for the votes which the president frOn the platform of Shadow Lawn | and his speech of acceptance had re- N f'fbifRNtbs liit NDiittl t1ltt DIONt II \ at o'clock in the morning and mat ! ters were left in a state of watchful WaitiTR.
 \ Hardly ten days passed by | When the second emissary of Presi- \ dent Wilson appeared in New York City to accomplish what Senator stone had failed to accomplish This time the messenger appeared in the person of cabinet minister-no less 1 parsonage than Albert Burleson postmaster general, who divides the honors with Senator Stone and Colo nel House in the intimate advisorship of the president. Mir Burleson ar
 ranged through MT Viereck, the edi- tor of the Fatherand for conference at the offices of the democratic na- tional headquarters. Be 1t said to the credit of the gentlemen invited. that they did not have any dealings in the subterranean political diplomacy \ which was being engineered by the
 Wilson group. Mrs. Viereck was the | only one to welcome A[r Burlesou