Semi-weekly herald., 1916-11-16

are fighting for our lives and she re
members how we acted when she was
30 fighting and how we acted towards
her. II Is foolish to ascribe her great
prosperity to munition making and
unworthy to assign her attitude to
mere self-seeking. Munition max
ing is relatively petty business in
the industries Of all the millions Of
people. Whatever may be the course
of American domestic politics and
whoever may be her president, We
trust and believe that she will con-
tinue to give the Allies the legiti-
mate support. moral and material,
which she has afforded them thruout
the war.
The Daily Chronicle says that one
has to 60 back to 1876 to find an
election for the presidency SO close
ly contested. The closeness of the
result, it considers, reflects the real
difficulty Of Distinguishing between
the choices offered to the American
elector. In regard to their careers,
temperaments, private lives and per-
sonalities, the likeness between Mes
srs. Wilson and Hughes is much more
noticeable than any contrast. Both
are highly educated, studious, con-
scientious men unbeloved of bosses,
with lofty outlook, no gifts of dema-
goguery and personal entanglements
in the world of big business. While
Mr.. Wilson's platform was tolerably
definite however. the Daily Chronicle
says Mr.. Hughes was almost confin-
ed to antiWilson subjects, which fact
it attributes to the necessity Of re-
uniting standpatters and Progress
ives. Perhaps the only quite unmis-
taxable feature of his platform was
that he stood for restoring the high
protectionist tariff which Mr.. Wilson
had lowered.
From the point of view of Ameri-
can foreign policy the Daily Chroni-
Gle says it is exceedingly difficult to
dogmatize the result. With President
Wilson'S policy we are tolerably ia
Iniliar and can form our own views
on its merits and defects, but no one
could foretell exactly what his re-
placement by Mr.. Hughes would
mean. 1t points out that if Mr..
Hughes were elected, the interval be-
lore his Inauguration would be per-
iod Of inaction at what was likely to
Ne q very critical time.
If MIR. Hughes made Mr.. Roosevelt
his Secretary of State and gave prac-
tical expression to the strong body OF
pro-Ally sentiment which dominates
IN the states Of the Atlantic coast,
the Allies would have reason to be
glad he had taken Mr.. Wilson's place.
But there was no guarantee what
ever that he would do so. It was
just as possible that the promised
vigor of his diplomacy would be felt
In such matters of controversy be-
tween the United States and the Al
lies as the blacklist or examination
of mails.
In these circumstances it was ex-
traordinarily difficult for US on this
side to feel certain as to which can
didate's election would be most in
our interest and the difficulty can
nave been hardly less for our friends
in the United States.
The Manchester Guardian in an ed
itorial comment on the presidential
election summarizes the conflicting
factors and speculates on what Amer
icanism more vigorously applied in
the event of Mr.. Hughes election
might have to say to the Allies as
well as to Germany. In respect to the
Allies it quotes the remarks by Mr..
Hughes as to his not tolerating any
improper interference with American
property, mails or legitimate COM
merciai intercourse and his declara-
ton of the refusal to allow any ma
tion to put any American on the
black list. These words indicate a
policy which would take small ac-
count of the novel conditions of mod
ern war by sea and would be inspir-
ed by no feeling of sympathy. In
In any case, it concludes, we must
hope that we shall continue to have
the sympathy and support Of the
great majority of the American peo-
pie as we have now, and we shall de-
pend on ourselves for winning the
war.
Wednesday-The Pail Mall Gazette
commenting on the reported election
of Mr.. Hughes. which, according to
early cable dispatches had been as
sured, reminds its readers that the
election should not be viewed exclu-