The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-03
'1nfamOns betrayal ok prlnclpIes.r

hIamOnS betrayal % Principles"
Moral capitulatiops Which have IN
dermined the manllness, courage and
seli-respect Of this nation; coarse self
interest and love Of material comfort;
play for safety and our own bank
acconnt-such are some Of the deyelop-
ments OF our national character during
me last three years under the admin
lstratiOn OF Woodrow Wilson, seen BY
Or. langdon C. Stewardson. college
professor, writer and minister of the
Gospel
DIR. Stewardson is Georgian by
birth, educated in philadelphia, and
the universities of LeIpslg, Tubingen,
ana Berlin. He was an Episcopal rec
tor for many years, professor of phil
osophy at Lchlgh University, and
president Of Hobart College. He rep
rcsents all that is finest and best Of
our ideals and citizcnry. In 1912 he
was anxious to see Woodrow Wilson
elected, believing him to be sincere
reformer; today he is vehement in his
desire to see the great yacillator re-
tired from office. and he believes 1t
the duty of every American who be-
lieYes in democratic institutions to
work his hardest to bring this about
He says:
THE surrender at Vera Cruz was the
sequel to an ill-considered attack upon
a weak and distressed neighbor. The
surrender to Bernstorff was the meek
acceptance of a diplomatic affront and
n national humiliation MS well. But
the surrender to the brotherhoods is
the surrender of constituted authority
to the forces Of revolution. together
with the Infamous betrayal of the prin-
ciples OF democratic government No
such dastardly and disastrous episode
has ever before soiled the record OF an
American executive or blackencd the
pages OF American history. Its evil
consequences none can depict or fore
see. No adequate parallel to it can
be found. The industrial Janizaries
tthese new soldiers OF the imperial
labor unionsl marched on the White
House and, having enlisted the presi-
dent in their ranks, the two together
proceeded 10 iutimidute Congress I'M
der the threat Of a national disaster.
The self-same Congress which shame
fully submitted to the massacre of its
citizens on the Lusitania and TO the
abominable attacks upon life and prop
crty by the German propaganda has
yet further dishonored itself by sur
render of democratic principles to n
gang OF railway bandits. In fear and
trembling and under the spur of the
executive lash il has passed, in un-
seemly haste. an act Of doubtful con-
stitutionality and betrayed at once the
principles Of our government and the
cause of the people. The result was
tclegraphed 10 Shadow Lawn. and
there the head Of our government ac-
tually pronounced this deed of shame
to be for himself the climax of
happy day
whatever may he the presidents
triumphs of the pen and intellect. his
moral defeats in all tests of essential
manlincss are great and glaring. He
is capable Of advocating the highest
principles in argument. and he does il
with verbal dignity and in the best OF
taste but when il comes to the final
test Of action he falters and surren-
dars.
"A further continuance Of such NOR
al lassitude and of the asphyxiating
gases OF wisconsin which have occas-
toned it means the death of all that our
forefathers held dear and of all that
is distinctly glorious in the life and
history of our republic. Rot OF char
acter has set in all over our land, and
one sure way to arrest or stop it is to
put the chief contributor of this rot
out of office and deprive him for the
future of every official opportunity to
wreck our national institutions or de-
grade our national life
Coming from a former Wilsonian.
who is n sincere advocate Of peace, but
sincerer upholder Of national honor,
this grilling Of the spineless Wilson is
worthy OF consideration.