The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-06-16
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But we didn't 20 to war, jefferson
settled our troubles by negotiation
just as the president Of the United
States is trying to do today.
when Adams was president Frcnce
presed upon our commerce. She OK
tended her seizure, searches and con
fiscation to the very waters OF the
United States themselves until she
had pied up IN our state department
charges Of over 2S00 violations OF
neutralitys law American ambassa-
dors who sought to adjust these
wrongs were refused recognition and
openly nsulted at the French court.
President Adams called Washington
out Of retirement to head the army he
created the navy department and he
bDilt ~ elye battleships
But we didn't go to war. Adams set
tied our troubles by negotiation just
as the president Of tho United States
Is trying to do today.
when Washington wes president
aud. neutrality" first declared. war
eonvused Europe, our ships dared not
to put to sea, commerce was paralyzcd
and business depressed American
passengers and American crews we're
thrown into prison and deprived OF
legal rights. Genet the minister from
France, fitted out privateers In our
harbors flouted our officials, and tried
70 rally this country to the support Of
France in return for the help France
gave Us fl the Revolutionary war,
England and France seized 100 Of our
Ships and conGiscated millions Of dol
lara worth of our property and up IN
quebec Lord Dorchester promised ca
radian Indians the pleasure Of burn
ing American homes and scalping
american citizens.
But we didn't 80 to war Washing
ron settled our troubles by negotia-
ton just as the president Of the Unit
cd States is trying to do today
n the face Of this record do Repub-
liems realize that when they arraign
tho policy Of the president OF the
United States today they arraign the
policy Of Harrison, of Blaine, of Lin
anttA .,I ~ ft,,,,to IN,, tl,, ,,1n..,,,.o
OF criucising a Democratic president,
are they willing to read out Of the Re
publican party the greatest men the
Republican party ever hads Are they
willing to say that the Republican par
" Of today condemns what Hamilton
did in Revolutionary days, what Lin
coin did in Civil war days and what
Grant and Blaine and Harrison did but
yesterday
IN his policy of peaceful uegotia-
tions today the president Of the Unit
"a States follows the example set him
by the greatest presidents the Dem
ocrauc party and the greatest presi-
dents the Republican party ever gave
this nation
DO the critics Of the present admin
istration believe that Lincoln should
have risked national disaster by using
the sword rather than the pen in press
ing the Alabama claims2 Are they
willing TO brand Grant as coward
because he kept US at peace with
Spain?
Yet no incident Of the present war
shows SO gross violation Of our neu-
tral rights as England's action in
building navy TO prey upon our com
merce no submarine attack surpasses
in horror the butchery OF American
citizens by that Spanish firing squad
ir Santiago when Grant was in the
presidential chair
IA this as in all the other big ques-
tions of life the more we understand
the past the better we shall Judge the
present. Where it took ten years to
secure inadequate compensation for
the Alabama claim, the present admins
istration has already secured in the
case OF single claimant reparation
greater than all the Alabama claims
combined Where. in other admins
tations during great foreign wars,
the American flag was merely an m.
vitation to pmuder today that flag Is
the best protection OF am who desire
to be safe upon the seas
Where Washington vainly pleaded
for recognition OF our neutral rights.
where jefferson sought in vain to pro
tect our shipping. whore Lincoln fail
ed TO gain us the freedom of the seas
the man who now sits in the presiden-
iial chair has secured from every /
warning power. from every empire un- |