The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1916-06-16

FRIDAY, JUNE rs. 1910
me ISSUE.

''t 'NO1LF
With the Republican candidate for
the Presidency nominated the Progres .
NV" candidate dead aborning, and the
Democratic nominee fOrcOrdAned an 4
hk"Iy to be announced at any moment.
N" national campaign may be said to
he formally opened
Never since the campaign IN 1864.
when President Lincoln was on trial for
reelection, has similar contest been
made, and If We can rcad the logical
sequence Of events the result will be
sImilnr to that Of over half century
ago.
WIN opposing candidates having no
many traits of character in common
That II has been facctiou4ly said II barber
could remove all difference between
lhcin m ten minutes, it IL likely that
ISSUES of state policy will alone be dis
cusscd, and that these will mainly
mario" down to single one, our
country y policy as to war, whether in
America or in Europe
President Wilson, like his predecessor
has done what he properly could Ia
avoid war with Mexico. While thi4
has not always met the approval of
literary lovers Of blood and carnage. il
IA fair t" conclude that IN Colonel Roose
vets defeat Mt Chicago this il the tru,
Republican attitude, and IA the call for
military preparedness has met with
such varying enthusiasm, and in munN
sections with such chilling support on
hostile opposition the inference IL fan
that the President has led m fast ~.
the country would follow! The belief
IL doubtless fixed in many n mind thai
Mexico will never give her people II
stable government until the United
states shall have given her such spank
my and such training ~ she gave Cuba
IN 1888, but we ARE forced to agree that
MeXlco's hcts not the United States
must determine such time, and few
viii deny the Presidents proposition
thht every country must be allowed u
chance to work out its own form OF
government until the rights of other
peoples dwelling there demand inter.
Venton 1t Is generally conceded that
the isolated cases of loss of life of our
citizens through public causes thus fnr
scarcely exceeds, in comparison with our
whole people, the ratio of one star to
all the stars in the armament; how docs
TINS compare with the probable sequel
had our army been battling for two OF
three years with Mexican bandits? The
time Tor intervention may be and prob
ably IL near at hand, but this delay hns
been JudIclous and the final defeat viii
b" all the easier and the more above
the conqueror' temptation.
In like manner, while no nation has
ever been tried abroad rs ours has by the
warning nations of Europe, and to keep
out OF n break has required much more
craftsmanship than to fight, thus far
peace has been maintained with dignity,
ana in every case our President hus
gained by diplomacy what would have
been lost through war Under such
circumstances who chIdes because we
have not been led into contest for
which we were lamentably unprcpared
both IN spirit and in equipment? And
who today does not recall with extreme
satisfaction the peaceful settlement of
issues between US and the European
nations through the arts of diplomacy
rather than over the corpses of untold
thousands of our dead And will not
the logical consequence of this be- that
when foreign fighters have glutted their
vengeance on each other they will
inevitably turn to the nation for leader.
ship in the future which has won it's
bloodless victory during the last two
years!
War talk IL cheap, and loud and urid
but the force of reason, and the nc
compllshments of sound judgment will
sway the greatest nation of the world
long after war howlers have returned
to the dust
Because President Wilson has met
wisely and well situations which were
never dreamed of when he WAS elected,
because war conditions over which he
had no control have delayed the eirec-
tive working of tariff changes in favor
of which he stood for election: because
he has proved that loftincss of motives
and pose of mind mark the sue
cessful statesman; because we are
enjoying financial prosperity elsewhere
unknown, and because the task for which
he was called to the Executive chair
remains still unfinished. we believe that
he should be elected to do in his second
term what his distinguished competitor
VIII find 1t impossible to do in his first.