St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-10-28
WILSON AND THE ISSUES

A pamphlet of II pages by George
creel on Wilson and the Issues
was published last September ny
the Century Go. Every Democratic
community in this State should
send $500 to Wilbur w. Marsh
treasurer Of the Democratic Ma
tioy,al Committed 80 East An
street, New York City, with a re-
m,est 10 invest it in copies OF TINS
namphlet and reprints OF inter
meyer's speeches on Roosevelt ana
Invisible Government for pubiie
distribution throughout tae wards
tbore is no doubt that TO every
Democrat it would prove an IN
~spiration, to honest Progresslves IL
will rally them under the flag OF
Wilson with the gallant john M.
Parker.
TO Republicans who put country
above party. and who are far
minded enough TO admit an unde-
niable fact: that Wilson has put
more constructive legislation on
the statute books than the Republl-
cans did since they existed as a
marty: to honest Republicans. who
do NOT believe in hyphenism. who
do not want Intervention or war, 10
guch Republicans these pamphlets
will move an inspiration that Will
lead them to support Wilson.
The opening chapter OF CreeIS
work is on "Democracy's Test,
noipfs out that the campaign Of
1916 presents issues of larger I'M
n~orfsnce and more tremendous
meaning than any other in the his
history of America. The future OF
Democracy is at stake: il defeated,
ii might as well retire forever from
the scene of political action.-but
greater by far than the interests OF
any party where tragedy may lie
ii in the fact that all the dynamic
forces of the day r driving IN
the direction of confusion. preiu-
dice and stark em%otionalisln.' Not
since the sixties has the voice of
the people been louder or less in
telligible." Mr.. Creel points out a
vital factor that calls for initial
comprehension is the influence of
the European war on the public
mind: that the horror of the first
shock is passing away, that our
sensibilities are being blinded and
that the American mind is failing
to reflect the horror Of the Euro
pean dispatches telling of the loss
of life and billions of treasure: that
our emotions are calloused and
nunbed and the old ~selfishness and
prejudice ~reasserting itself. that the
ilnitv bred by a common revulsion
against the insanity Of conflict" is
disintegrating and that peace is
= getting On u nerves. that the cour-
age. the sublime moral c~ouraaeot
neutrality. when placed alongside
OF the physical courage of war,
when the world is in arms. has an
air of ignobiiity. Dangerous dem
agoeues like Roosevelt seize these
psychological moments to ply their
dirty trade TO work on American
pride and rub it to the raw" for
not taking sides. The pro allies on
n side and the pro Germans on
the other are both damning us as
D0ltrO0ns for not taking their re-
Speciive sides.
Wilson in guarding the country
against the ultimate crime of wal
has wounded the national egotism
tn at w a t e d o crack
the h 9 ! m e { 0 the Kaiser
and wanted to twist the Liens
tail. without really going to wal
over 1t. that Mexican ~outrages ap-
nearing on the scene at this psyche
logic moment presents through in
PREVENTION an opportunity to vim
dIcate the courage of America,
that the moneyed interests. re-
m0rsele6s. s~oulless. cruel and vim
dictive'have stirred the horrid brew
until the fermenting mass breathes
forth dire c%ontagion and the presl-
dents devotion to peace is held uu
to Obloduy and shame. 1.-The dead
children of the Lusitania will be
dragged from the oeean-bed and
the dead bodies of Villas victims
headed upon campaign carts for ora
t0ricai purposes Bonfires of lingo
ism will be lighted in every market
place, so that the flame of an UNI
reasoning emotionalism may bury
all else in shadow. 1t is the intent
to keen the neODle so busy Feeling
that they will have no time FOR
THINKING
The voters mind to the exclusion
of important domestic problems
will be fixed by the Vaccinations
Of organized greed and cunning and
centered on Belgium and Mexico
and this election will decide not the
tariff. not the economic differences
that ~differentiate the parties. but
II. will decide "the capacity OF q
neenle for self-government. II
viii decide whether the people pre-
fer facts to elamor. fairness TO be,
travail. Democracy to o~ligarchy and
whether they are TO think for
themselves president
IL Williams College and 0 OF the
former Republican president Of the the
limited States has come l9f
Wilson and has enrolled I nlmssh
with the League. OF lliuepeiue
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