The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-14

people of Chill conceived violent dis
like to the United States for our IN
sistence upon neutrality during the
Gillian revolution. When this feeling
was at its height one junior officer
from the United States warship Balu-
more 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 Harrison
settled our troubles by negotiation
| 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 fragrant
violations that Secretary of State Sew
/ ard advanced plan to go to war with
all of them at one and the same time.
But we didn't go to war. Lincoln
! settled our troubles by negotiation
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 neu-
trality during the Crimean war. We
gave these representatives OF Great
Britain their passports and sent them
| home. 90
| But we didn't go to war Pierce
! settled our troubles by negotiation just
as the president of the United States
| is trying TO 90 To-Day.
when Van Buren, was president a
deta chment of Canadian militia, dur
ing the internal troubles in Canada,
boarded the United States ship Caro-
lima in the American waters of Nj
agara river, killed an American mem
Der 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 negotia-
ton just as the president of the United
States is trying to do today
England Seized Our Ships.
when jefferson was president
England seized hundreds of our ships
and Napoleon hundreds more
| when Adams was president France
proved upon our commerce. She ex-
tended her seizure, searches and con-
/ fiscations to the very waters of the
United States themselves until she had
piled up in our state department
charges of over 1900 violations of
neutralitys 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 para
lyzed and business depressed. Amer
lean passengers and American crews
were thrown into prison and deprived
of legal rights.
But we didn't go to war. Wash
ington settled our troubles by nego-
| tiaticn just as the president of the
United States is trying to do today
I In concluding this issue, Mr.. Glynn
asks:
DO the critics of the present ad-
ninistration believe that Lincoln
should have risked national disaster
by using the sword rather than the
pen in pressing the Ala ana claims
Are they willing to brand Grant as a
coward because he kept US at peace
with Spain %
In answer to those who say that
President Wilson's policy does not sat
isfy any one Mr.. Glynn replies: He
means that it does not satisfy those
who would map out a new and I'M
tried course for this nation to pursue,
but they forget it does satisfy those
who believe the United States should
live up to the principles it has pro-
fessed for century and more
On Preparedness Issue.
In his treatment of the issue of pre-
paredness Mr.. Glynn asserts that the
genius of this country is for peace.
I'VE have built our greatness on the
resources of our people. The ring OF
the anvil and not the rattle of the
saber, the song of the reaper, not the
shrek of the soldier, the clatter of the
shuttle, not the crack of the rifle have
/ HOiI US the pidCe we occupy IN Inc
councils of the world
Like the old Mohawk chief who
. loved peace, we would like to throw
the tomahawk of war SO high in the
sky that no mans hand could evel
pull it down. But when some Other
tribe among the races of men sends
us bundle of arrows wrapped in the
; skin of a rattle-snake, we want like
old Governor Bradford. of Mass
chusetts, to be in a position to send
that rattle-snake's skin back stuffed
; with powder and with ball
we have been carried too close te
. the rocks of war during the past two
, | years to believe that those rocks dc
not exist And looking into the future
. | we can perceive that if our sovereign
ity is not challenged, if our peace is
not assailed it will only be because the
world knows that we are strong
enough to defend ourselves from every
foe
For these reasons this administra-
} ton has done more for our army AND