Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-15

met that quickly decisivey and said that
they stood as every American should stand,
back of the President of the United States.
| When the President sent his ultimatum to
| Germany he was criticised by two elements
| one that he was seeking to force the
country into war, and the other was that he
was too cowardly to engage In the conflict.
| There are, happily, two kinds of courage
| the courage of the man who Is willing to
| age of the man that sends others to the
| conflict. The courage of the man who
wishes himself to enter the conflict may be
rash, for he alone is to suffer. but the cour.
| age to take a nation into war, where mil
| lions of lives may be sacrificed, Is another
| kind of courage. II is courage that must
be able to stand bitter abuse a courage
that moves slowly, acts cooly and strikes
no blow as long as diplomacy may be en-
ployed honor of the country upheld, the
flag respected and lives of Americans pro.
tected. Woodrow Wilson has both kinds
OF courage-the courage of conflict and the
courage to act cooly and sensibly when he
is dealing with the lives of others--the fate
of a nation. 1t was no time for divided
counsel. The interference of Congress
would have created chaos in this country,
contempt for our honor and our country
abroad. and would have destroyed the power
of America to either maintain its honor or
protect the rights of the neutrals of the
world.
DEFEAT OF SHIPPING BILL.
The Republican party defeated by fill
buster the shipping bill proposed by the
Democratic party, which, If 1t had been en-
acted, would have made impossible the
more than 200 miles of railroad sIdetracks
crowded by the products of the American
factory and the American farm by enabling
us to get shipments abroad, and we would
by this time have been enabled to have a
merchant marine to take the products of
the field and the factory and the mines to
the hungry markets of Europe. They offer
to the United States the often proposed and
always defeated subsidy to the ship owners
to be paid out of the Treasury of the people
OF the United States. This time they call
1t by the name of subvention, but 1t means, |
of course, the taking OF the peoples money
to enrich few men.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
The Republican party. seeking some issue |
Just any issue upon which to hang the |
slightest hope OF returning TO power is |
driven to the necessity OF denouncing In its |
own platform. adopted at Chicago the vote |
OF majority of its own members in the |
House and Senate upon virtually all of the |
reform measures that have been written
into law by the Democratic party They
declare we faVor an effective system of
rural credits as opposed to the ineffective
law proposed by the present Democratic
Administration" BY this declaration they
charge virtually every Republican in the
Senate and almost every Republican in the
House with having voted for an ineffective
rural credit law.
With critics all about him, with patience
and strength and great foresight, woodrow
Wilson has kept nation at peace with
honor. He has driven from the control of |
The finances of the people of this nation an
OF wealth and substituted in its
stead just Government Interested only
IN supplying the legitimate business needs
or the country with sufficient currency 10 |
meet its demands and requirements II
ought not to be necessary to nominate him
n partisan convention, Patriotism in this
world crisis should rise above politics and
Ill parties should rejoice at an Opportunity
% proclaim him the whole-hearted ana
,appy choice OF republic of peaceful free
men. And as we cannot AFFORD 10 avian
lorses while crossing a stream. who would
ay that we can AFFORD TO swan horses
While crossing a bloody streamP 40
America cannot afford to change leadershIn
Turing this great eataclysm that shakes
he nations OF the earth. for to Woodrow
wilson more than any other citizen In ali
he world the Christian people. wherever
ne rain rails or the sun shines this world |
round look anxiously, hopefully and
rayerhully that he will bring peace 10 tha
rusgllns armies of Europe What marty
; II now that would dare undertake. ~
lscredlt this master diplomat, this uncon-
usraple leader, this great American for
y that you may palsy the hand that NAV
'Fiee the peace treaty OF the world