Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-10-10

to most disastrous panic.
He never would have demoralized
social, business and political condi-
tions in the Philippines by the prom
Use of Immediate Independence
a foolish promise which members of
his own party in congress refused to
allow him to fulfill.
Never, while protesting his devo-
ton to the policy of conserving our
natural resources, would he have
given his backing to bill designed
to turn great water powers over, to
private interests.
AS president of the United States
Mr.. Hughes would not have refused
fatty. to protect the rights, proper
lty, and lives of American citizens in
foreign lands.
He never would have left it to
German and English warships to
carry American refugees from a
Mexican port in which their lives
were in deadly peril.
He never would have demanded
that the Mexican government salute
the American flag and then, after
Selling the principal Mexican port
with heavy loss of life, have re-
tired finally without The salute.
He never would have butted in
to the affairs of Mexico and without
warrant have demanded the resig-
nation of her president and directed
the management Of her government.
! He never would have formed a
partnership with the thief, rapist,
and murderer, Villa.
He never would have imperiled
the lives of Americans on the border
by lifting the Taft embargo and
arming the savage and blood-thirs-
/ y banditry of Mexico.
He never would have loudly
boosted of going into Mexico with
an army to "get Villa" and then
have tamely submitted to Carranza's
rude order to 60 not one mile fur
Their south.
He would not have stomached the
national insult involved in the bru-
tai butchery of American soldiers at
Carrizal and then have offered fin
ally to finance the de facto govern
ment of their brutal murderer.
He never would have had "per-
sonal representative" marching with
the bandit horde of the. unspeakable
Villa and share that scoundrel's bed
and board.
He never, in a message to con-
gress, would have assured the peo-
pie most emphatically that our ma
tional defense was adequate and
then later on have repudiated this
representation and have declared
for preparedness.
He would not one day deride the
plan for a greater navy>and the
next day demand a navy "incom-
parably superior"
He would not have inaugurated
the practice of writing threatening
notes to foreign powers and then
backing up when his bluffs were
called.
! He would not have declared his
devotion to the cause of civil SER
vice reform and then have sane.
toned the fragrant violations of the
civil service law by his underlings
He would not have diverted an
american war-ship to take his son:
.|in-law and party of politicians
with their families for cruise in
lSouth American waters on the pre-.
text of promoting American com
|mercial interests"
Il He never, in order to gain votes
would have used his power as presi-
dent to coerce congress into passing
a wage-raising bill without even in
vestigating it's merits.
1 Having loudly proclaimed himself
an advocate of "pitiless publicity
he would never have conducted the
most secretive administration fol
sixty years.
/, He never would have so conduct
ed our foreign affairs that the Unit.
ed States would be left without q
lsingle real friend among the ma
lions and with many bitter enemies
And so this list might be contin'
ued almost indefinitely. But the in
dictment is sufficient, recalling as II
does the most amazing record of ex-
ecutive error in our country's his.
tory.
: FOR HARDING.