Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-10-06
PRESIDENT PREDICTS WAR If REPUBLICANS WIN
Only Alternative Present Foreign Policy Wilson Vigorous
Political Speech Attacking Republican Party the Party
Special neessUrges Young Democrats and True Progress
sve Rally the Democratic Party the Party of the People

power for four years. And what has
happened? 1t has redeemed some of
the promises falsely made by the at
torneys of the special interests and
it has done something more interest
ing than that. You remember that
four years ago there was great body
of spirited Republicans who said:
This thing is becoming fraud
and a sham. We have been taking
care of some people, but we have no.
been taking care of the great body of
the people. We have not thought
about their morals; we have not
thought about their health; we have
not thought about their rights as
human beings, and we insist that you
put the policy of this party in our
hands or we will go off and form a
party of our own
And thereupon the great Progress
sive party sprang up--great not be-
cause it turned out to be more nu-
merous than the party from which 1t
had seeded, though it did that, bat
because it had the real blood of hu-
man sympathy in it's veins and was
ready to work for mankind and for
get the interests of narrow party. !
want to pay tribute to the purposes
and intentions of the men who formed
that group in our politics.
But the interesting thing is that
inasmuch as they did not get the op-
portunity, we took advantage of our
opportunity to do the things that
they wanted to do. And want you
young fellows to understand the rea-
son for that. There are standpatters
in the Democratic party. There are
men sitting down hard on the breech-
ing strap.
There are men who are trying t.
hold back and to serve what they be-
lieve to be conservatism, though it is
really reaction. But the interesting
thing about the Democratic party is
that those men are in a small minor
ity in it's ranks, whereas in the party
of the opposition they are in major
ity and are in control.
Progressives OutnumDer All.
1.-THE interesting thing for all poll
ticians to remember is that the pro-
gressive voters of this country all put
together outnumber either party. /
venture to say they outnumber both
parties together. This country il
progressive and II you youngsters are
going to be in the running it will he
because you will throw in your for
tunes with the party of which the
progressives have the control.
II am progressive. do not spell
it with capital 'p,' but think my
pace is just as fast as those who do.
l do not interfere with the running
and l am very much astonished to see
the company that some gentlemen
who spell their name with capital
are keeping. They are engaged in an
capture a party which is fortified
against them and refusing to enter a
party which is already captured by
those who believe in their principles.
The intellectual processes by which
they arrive at their conclusions are
entirely obscured to my intelligence.
zone thing has become evident, not
because it was explicitly stated, for
nothing has been explicitly stated, but
because 1t is Enthusiastically implicit in
almost everything that has been said,
Am not right that we must draw the
conclusion that If the Republican par
ty is put into power at the next cleo
ton our foreign policy will be radi-
cally changed? l cannot draw any
other inference. All our present for
eign policy is wrong, they say, and If
1t Is wrong and they are men Of con-
science, they must change it, and If
luCy arc 6OlA6 " ChaA6O ~ III VAub
direction are they going to change it?
War the Only Alternative.
"There is only one choice as against
peace, and that is war. The certain
prospect of success of the Republican
party is that we shall be drawn in one
form or other into the ENVIRONMENTS
Of the European war, and that south
Of us the force of the United States
will be used to produce in Mexico the
kind of law and order which some
American investors in Mexico CON-
slider most to their advantage.
There is a more serious aspect
even than that. From this time until
the 18th of November it is going to be
practically impossible for the present
administration to handle any critical
matter concerning our foreign rela-
tons, because all foreign statesmen
in1 x1yoV a