Arizona republican., 1916-10-19


 President Wilson's speeches are models of adroit indirect suggestion and avoidance of downright state ment. But the other day at Omaha he seems to have committed himself to the statement that he was willing to fight but was waiting for some thing worth fighting for for some thing which would put all the cor puscles of his blood into shouting shape It would be interesting to know exactly what outrage on Amer ican citizens or on the rights of hu- manity anywhere, which would make him cross the line between being willing to fight and too proud to fight He certainly did not regard the treacherous murder of Boyd and Adair and this United States, as something worth fighting for He cid not even write a note about it. The murder of 1894 men, women and children on the Lusitania did not put all the cor puscles of his blood into shouting shape. His corpuscles did not shout; they did not even whisper: apparently all they did was to suggest to him that it was a happy occasion for his classic remark about being too proud 10 fight. l am tempted to think that MT. Wilson did himself an injustice when he said that he was willing to fight either for any great cause or on account of any wrong hereafter done to this country; and that the truth was expressed the other day by his eager eulogist, Secretary. Baker, when ne said that he was glad that no one could insult MT. Wilson and make him go to war. Unquestion- ably General Carranza and probably Herr won Tirpitz, heartily agree with 1 Secretary Baker-and deep in his own | heart I am inclined to believe that | Mir. Wilson himself also agrees with l him.
 Two of MT. Wilson's most dis | tinguished champions, one official and | one non official, take the same view | Secretary Lane stated that the fact | that American citizens haze been 1 killed by outlaws and bandits Was q proper subject for much regret but not for 'sacraficing blood of our sons. Does he think that a woeful allusion 1 Of regret Is the way to move ban dits? Dr. Charles w. Eliot, former l president of Harvard. praises Mr Will ! son for having made great contri- button to the peace of the world and 10 the promotion of humane and just | dealings between nations by having gone far to establish as the American policy the policy of non- intervention | by force of arms for the protection of l miners, commercial adv yenturers. in | Nentors and workmen in foreign ralts, and by having refused to adopt the 'malign suggestion to protect the lives of these men by punitive expe- ditions and compelled agreements
 Reduced to concrete terms. this state
 ment of Dr. Eliot is that President
 Wilson is greatly to be praised be- | k.o. ..nI-
 nineteen fine, unoffending, hard work
 ing and totally unarmed American
 miners and engineers. were taken from
 q railroad train. tortured and mur-
 deied by an armed Mexican force. Dr
 Eliot has been a severe censor Oi political morals. strong in his con.
 demn2tion of bosses, crooked politi-
 clans. and demagogic labor leaders; . hut no corrupt boss, no crooked poll tician or labor leader, no conscience- lese capitalist. has ever preached ol
 practiced more degrading doctrine r a doctrine more ruinout to the sou , and the manhood of this nation. ol more destructive to humanity and jus $ tice ir the world at large. than tn
 doctrine thus set forth by this forme ? college president. There can be n,
 more severe condemnation of NIT
 Wilson than to say that he is not un worthy of such praise. American wo men are raped and American cnildreI murdered in Mexico; American mel are tortured to death hundreds Q B our people are slain; continual forav are made into our own territory: Mex
 lco itself is utterly devastated and it I people slaughtered by the hundre. thousand and Dr. Eliot denounces a 5 a 'malign suggestion any proposal L ofl fs. ? way by which it is possible to stol f them. It would be unfair to China {, ; compare Dr. Eliot with even an old 9 school Chinese statesman. If he reaIi ] represents the American people. tnel
 let us by all means abandon the Mon roe doctrine, and preparedness. an, % patriotism and every form of nanli , ness. national and individual: let u 2 leave Mexico to be set straight b - Germany or England or Japan; an let us sit in helpless folly at hom until some virile nation makes U U what we would under such condition deserve to be madc-the hewers- 0 :, | wood and drawers of water for allie
 conquerors. But if we Americans ar :. Tt sons of our sires, if we are worth Of our forefathers of the days c s Washington, if we are entitled [ f claim kinship with the valiant soul d who wore the blue in the armies ,
 Grant or the gray in the armies .
 Lee, let us treat such counsel wit e the derision it deserves. and vic f with deep suspicion the president wh s has earned such support.
 ( There was probably no America n GU side his own immediate followin
 more anxious to see him succeed. an l. more disappointed when he faile if than I was. I criticise him only be f cause my duty as an American cit - zen, proud of his country and jealor ,- or her honor, forces me to stan le against him Apparently the chi o aim advanced for MT. Wilson now n that he has kept Us out of war M
 Wilson himself said in effect Il other dav that if he was not electt
 We would have war. Yet Mir. Wilso
 through the demoeratic platform. al
 nonnces that the Mexicans ha'
 made war upon us. and have mn
 de"ed our citizens Apparently M
 Wilson does not mind the Mexican
 being at war with us as long as V
 arc not at war with the Mexicans. M
 Wilson's conception of war painful
 resembles that described bv MT. St
 phen IeacocE in his anecdote of Inc
 MT Smith took MT. Tompkins by t
 coat collar from behind and beg;
 kicking him vigorously. and the fig
 continued in this manner for sever
 minutes. The War out of which N
 Wilson has not kept us with Mexi
 has been waGed in precisely this ma