The Delta independent., 1916-11-03

safety of the republic above any idea
of petty gain. If any public man plays
any class of Americans for succors,
he is apt to come out the little end OF
the horn.
We are asked to vote for President
Wilsan because ''he kept us out of
war"
In reply l want to ask the voters
who kept Sweden, Norway, Holland,
Denmark, Spain and the South Ameri-
can countries out of war?
In my judgment what kept the U. S.
out of war, granting that someone
wanted to fight us. was the absolute
inability of any of the belligerants for
doing any more than they were doing
or are now doing.
England cannot spare one soldier or
one ship to fight us nor can Germany.
And England could not get along with
out the supplies she is receiving from
us and Canada, which she would have
to do in the event of war with this
country.
| can state, absolutely without fear
of contradiction, that England, France.
Russia or Germany would Tread no
single thing as much as war with the
United States.
This being the case, President vii
son had a wonderful opportunity for
upholding the dignity and honor of the
nation without any danger whatever
of plunging us into war.
IT, when the German ambassador
had the unmitigated gall to publish
warnings throughout our land that
Americans should not dare to exercise
their rights under international law
by sailing on the Lusitania, President
Wilson had Immediately replied
through the press that American rights
could not be so easily denied, that if
the boat was sunk, he would immedi-
ately seize all German shipping in
termed in American harbors and would
Immediately call for two million vol
unteers, tell you, voters of Gunnison
county, that the ship ould never have
been sunk and we would have had
peace WITH HONOR.
But President Wilson took no action
whatever and the ship was sunk and
he merely then wrote a note and the
crime has not yet been atoned for,
and many other passenger ships have
been sunk. If. after the Lusitania had
been sunk, President Wilson had i'm
mediately recalled our ambassador to
Berlin and had sent the German am
bassador home with curt note to the
effect that the people Of the United
States did not care to associate with
murderers of women and children, in
that event there would have been no
more sinking of ships and loss of
American lives and we would still have
had peace WITH HONOR.
And England has run over us even
more than Germany but there is this
difference -Englands violations of in
ternational law has not involved loss
of life. However, it has been humili-
dtlnR " any s'NN 'AN'>AN
of Gunnison county blush for his
country.
When England seized Sweden's mail
Pennsylvania seized English mail.
England promptly stopped fooling with
Sweden's mail and Sweden had peace
with honor.
When England seized our mail, Pres
ident Wilson wrote note and England
took six months to reply and then
politely told this country to "go to
hell"
NV friends, all of Europe will con
tinue to tell us in diplomatic language
to "go to hell" and will continue to
violate our rights as long as President
Wilson is at the head of our nation
because he has stated in so many
words that as long as he is President,
there will be no war. This is direct
invitation for any European country
to treat us as insultingly as it sees fit.
II we had President who would say
to all the world: Just keep off OF
Uncle Sans toes and mean just that
we would have no war and our peace
would be with honor.
At the present time any man who
understands anything of international
law and knows anything about the in
suits and injury our country and flag
have suffered under the present admin
istration, cannot hold up his head,
square his shoulders and look all men