The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-14

. our insistence upon neutrality during
q the Chilian revolution. When this
: feeling was at its height one junior
officer of the United States warship
Baltimore was killed outright in the
, streets of Valparaiso and sixteen of
, our sailors wounded, of whom one
afterwards died.
But we didn't go to war Har-
rison settled our troubles by nego-
tiation just as the president of the
United States is trying to do today.
when Lincoln was president this
country's rights were violated on
every side. England, Russia, France
and Spain were guilty Of such flag
rant violations that Secretary Of
State. Seward advanced a plan to go
to war with all Of them at one and
the same time.
But we didn't go to war. Lin
coin settled our troubles by negotia-
tion just as the president is trying
to do today.
when Pierce was president the
British minister in this country and
three of his counsel violated our
neutrality during the Crimean war.
We gave these representatives of
Great Britain their passports and
sent them home.
"But we didn't go to war. Pierce
settled our troubles by negotiation
just as the president of the United
States is trying to do today.
"When Van Buren was president.
a detachment of the Canadian militia
during the internal troubles in Can
ada, boarded the U. S. ship Carolina
in the American waters of Niagara
river, killed an American member of
the crew, fired the ship and sent her
adrift over Niagara Falls.
"But we didn't go to war. Van
Buren, settled our troubles by nego-
tiation just as the president of the
United States is trying to do today.
"When Jefferson was president
England seized hundreds of our ships
and Napoleon hundreds more.
'1When Adams was president
France preyed upon our commerce.
She extended her seizure, searches
and confiscations to the very waters
of the United States until she had
piled up in our state department char
ges of over 1900 violations of neu-
trality's law
"But we didn't go to war. Adams
settled our troubles by negotiation
Just as the president of the United
States is trying to do today.
when Washington was president
and neutrality first declared, war
convulsed Europe our ships dared
not to put out to sea, commerce
was paralyzed and business depress-
ed. American passengers and Amer
lean crews were thrown into prison
and deprived of legal rights.
"But we didn't go to war. Wash |
ington settled our troubles by nego'
tiation just as the president of the
United States is trying to do today
In concluding this issue, Mr.. Glynn
asks
"Do the critics of the present .ad-
minstration believe that Lincoln |
should have risked national disaster
hn thon hp |
pen in pressing the Alabama claims?
Are they willing to brand Grant as
coward because he kept us at peace
with Spain?
This administration has done more
for our army and our navy than any
administration in our history.
More than this, it has modified
the resources of the nation to meet
the needs of war. 1t has placed the |
wealth of the country back of the
strength of the country, the toiler
back of the soldier and the sailor.
and to our opponents we say you
cant create an army, can't create
navy in the course of a day. to
them we say if our navy is not strong !
enough our army not big enough,
the republican party is eighty per
cent to blame, for the republican
party has been in control of this !
nation eighty per cent of the time
during the past fifty years.
The democratic party advocates
and seeks preparedness, but it is
preparedness for defense, not pre-
paredness for aggression.
'lt is the preparedness which
builds the nations house upon rock,
so it will not fall when the rains
descend and the floods come and the
winds blow.
In his review of our domestic pol
icy the temporary chairman pointed
out that the promise made by dem
ocracy four years ago had been faith
fully kept.
To-day the prosperity which the