The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-19

gcst to him that 1t was a happy oc-
caslon for his classic remark about
being too proud to fight" am
tempted to think that Mr.. Wilson did
himself an injustice when he said
he was willing to fight" either for any
great cause or on account Of any
wrong hereafter done to this country;
and that the truth was expressed the
other day by his eager eulogist. Sec
rotary Baker. when he said that he
was glad" that mo ono could insult
Mr.. Wilson and make him go to war. %
Unquestionably General Carranza.
and probably Herr Won Tirpitz, hearth
ly agree with Secretary Baker-and
deep down in his own heart | am in
cllned to believe that Mr. Wilson him
self also agrees with him.
Elliot Rldlculcd.
Two OF Mr. Wilson's most distlng-
uished champions. one Official and one
nOn-olIlcial take the same view. Sec
rotary Lane stated that the fact that
American citizens have been killed
by outlaws and bandits" wasa proper
subject for much regret" but not
for sacrificing the blood of orr sons. -
Does he think that wOeful allusion
Of regret" is the way to move ban
dts? DR.. Charles w. Eliot, former
president of Harvard. praises Mr.. VIII
son for having made great con-
tribution to the peace Of the world
and to tho promotion Of humane and
just dealings between nations" by
having gone far to establish as the
American policy the policy Of non-in-
teryention by force Of arms for the
protection Of miners. commercial ad-
yenturers. inventors and workmen in
foreign parts and by having refused
to adopt the "malign suggestion" to
protect the lives OF these men by
punitive expeditions and compelled
agreements" Reduced to concrete
terms, this statement Of pr Eliot is
that President Wilson is greatly TO
he praised because he took no action
when some nineteen MISUNDERSTANDING.
Woodworking and totally unarmed
American miners. and engineers we're
taken from railroad train, tortured
and murdered by an armed Mexican
force. Dr. Eliot has been a severe
his condemnation OF bosses. crooked
politicians and damagOgic labor lead
ers; but no corrupt boss. no crooked
politician or labor leader, no CON
sCIenccless capitalist. has ever
preached or practiccd more degrad
ing doctrine, n doctrine more runous
to the soul and the manhood Of this
nation. or more destructive to hui
manity and justice in the world at
large. than the doctrine thus set forth
by this former college president. There
can be no more severe condemnation
of Mr.. Wilson than to say that he is
not unworthy of such praise. Ameri-
can women are raped and American
children murdered in Mexico: Amcrl-
can men are tortured to death: hum
dreds of our people are slain; con-
tinual fOrays are made into our own
territory; Mexico itself is utterly de-
vastated aud its people slaughtered
by the hundred thousand; and Or. FL
liot denounces as n 'malign suggeS-
ton" any proposal to put a stop to
these horrors in the only way by
which it is possible to stop them. 1t
would he unfair to China TO compare
Or. Eliot with even an old-school
Chinese statesman. If he really rep
resents the American people, then let
us by ali means abandon the Monroe
Doctrine. and preparedness and pa
triotisn and every form OF manliness'
national ana individual; let us leave
Mexico to he set straight by Germany
or England or Japan; and let us SIT
in helpless folly at home until some
vlrile nation makes us what we would
under such conditions deserve 10 ne
the hewers OF WOOD and the drawers
Of water Tor amen conquerors. Bhl
II we Americans are III sons OF our
sires. II we are worthy OF our lore
fathers of the days OF washington, II
We are entitled to claim kinship with
the valiant souls who wore the blue
In the armies OF Grant or the gray IN
the armies OF Lee, let us treat such
counsel with the derislon II deserves
and view with deep suspicion the pres
ident who has earned such support.
There was probably no American
outside his own Immediate following
more anxious to see him succeed and
more disappointed when he failed than
| was. criucise him only because
my duty as an American citizen, proud