The Monte Vista journal., 1916-10-07

more TO quicken essential patriotism
and to make this nation self-de-
tenslvely powerful than the floating
OF many battleships or the summon
ing OF vast armies, however Drac-
tically indispensable the latter are in
certain crises.
There are many progressives who
feel that the present national admin
lstration should have dealt at once
more firmly and skillfully with riot
Gus chaos in Mexico and with world
IN arms; yet, we decline to follow the
political critics, who fail to take ac-
count of the responsible burdens of
the present administration, and who
with the manifest purpose of riding
into office, without declaring their
own policy is definitely for war,
pour wholesale condemnation on an
administration which, when the
scales were evenly balanced, threw
the weight of it's influence for peace
idllel lHdu aggression.
For one, l am not so much i'm
pressed with the statement that ths
present administration has kept us
out as with the fact that, on diff
ferent occasions, when the easy way
led straight toward useless conflict,
it did not take us there. Looking
back, when all see clearer, who may
now wholly regret that the emphasis
was placed rather on fiscal and ecu
nomic precautions, and on the self
governing hopes of other nations,
than on the conquest of less wise or
less fortunate peoples? Had tho
course openly or impliedly sanctioned
by Republican leaders been pursued,
we might now be needless partisans
in the strife of Europe, and the soil
of the south would be freshly red
dened. and fertilized by the blood
and bodies of countless American
boys who would have sacrificed all,
following the flag through flaming
fields to vanquished heights.
Speaking as a progressive onlook-
er. contrasting the rank and file of
Republicans and Democrats, I find
justification in the apparent circum-
stance that at this time, the greater
proportion, though by no means all
of course, of what Lincoln called
the plain people of the country are
to be found in the Democratic party
"Those who profit unduly from an
ti-sOcial conditions in law and gov
ernment, who look for favors from
mere wealth rather than the fruits
of fraternal and cooperative toll
who boldly apologize for any prac-
tees, however constituencies, of gov
ernment when controlled by CONNER
cial avarice-are, by the same token,
more normally gathered in the Re-
publican group. The latter frankly
assert their high intelligence and
their right to govern others in the
names of privilege and of property
"To be explicit, take two of the
highest officials within the gift of
the people of Colorado this fall The
Republican party, in entirely char
acteristic fashion, has renominated
to the spreme bench a judge who,
for II years, has consistently support
ed practically every reactionary dec
sion of the supreme court of Colo
RADIO. 1t is doubtful if any high
court in America, especially during
the smaller part of that period, re
ceived an equal deliberate condemna-
tion of it's decisions on public ques-
tions from members of the legal pro
fession, both at home and abroad.
"If further proof be required of
the trend of Republicanism in Colo
RADIO, it will be found in the re-nom-
ination to the governorship of one
who was elevated to his present po-
sition as a result of the invasion of
our public affairs by coal corpora
tions, acting, as proven by the United
States industrial relations commits
sion, in conjunction with the Rookie
fellers--the wealthiest factors In the
nation and the controlling influence
in the Colorado Fuel and Iron com
pany. Years Of law violation and in