Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-01
That wndependent" League.


That "Independent" League.
Democracy's latest campaign meth
DDS remind US of the self govern
ment" literature of the liquor interests
it is all SO obvious. The woodrow
Wilson Independent League" is ad-
vertising extensively and appeals to
independent" voters on a tissue OF
misstat ement. A quarter page adv't
appearing in Boston papers starts off:
Woodrow Wilson has kept US out Of
the greatest war in history. He has
defended neutral rights. He has pre-
served peace with honor. He has
made South America trust US. He has
been generous and patient with Mex
leo, and acted only when action was
inevitable. under actual attack.
We have prepar adness without mill
itarism. The President is committed
to a navy fully equal to the interna-
tonal tasks which the United States
hopes and expects tc take a hand in
performing, and an army fully ade-
quate to the requirements Of order, of
safety. and of the nations rights
surrounded by every danger, the
United States enjoys the greatest
and most evenly distributed prosper
ity in its history"
The silly assumption that President
Wilson has kept us out Of war"
should be echoed by Republican vot-
ers everywhere for it's effect upon the
common sense Of every thinking per-
son. Have not other neutral nations
kept out of the war? And not single
one of them has engaged in the vacil-
lating and aggravating course pur-
sued by the United States. Woodrow
Wilson has done more toward en-
broiling us in war than almost any
other man would have been capable of
doing had one nation at war not been
fully occupied. His meaningless
threats that were not backed by acts,
and instantly recognized abroad as
bluff" have had US on the verge of
war for IS months, but with whom
could we war?
He has preserved peace with
honor"
Whate deliberate falsehood. Every
intelligent person in this country
knows that the overwhelming sentiment
Of this country has been for peace
with all nations; every intelligent per-
son knows that this country is not pre-
pared to fight the smallest nation in
Europe; every person knows that
Woodrow Wilson could not fight Ger
many or Great Britain alone II he had
wanted to, and every person will grant
him all the honor" he can get out Of
the diplomatic fizzles Of the past year
and half.
Does that idiotic sentence mean that
Woodrow Wilson has been holding the
American people back from bouncing
on Europe?
He has made South America trust
u.s."
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were not so meaningless it might mean
something" This pretense is as
groundless as a statement could be-
If it means anything. it means tina.
this administration has actually done
something to cement relations with
South America, whereas 1t has done
the least of any American administra-
ton in twenty years along that line.
The pitiful farce of the "A B C Con-
ference" is still fresh In mind.
He has been generous and patient
with Mexico"
O, Lord forgive us our "patience".
When a President repeatedly invokes
the powers Of great nation to carry
out his personal determination against
single individual. shall we call it
patience? When a President arms
the men who are bound to be his foes,
in his processes of destroying one man
who has defied him, shall we call it
generosity" or patience?
We have preparedness without mill
tarism."
Such preparedness" as We have.
After two weeks Of "hurrying to arms"
the government is sending troops south
inadequately equipped and is buying
field equipment in Canada. Think Of
our preparedness" when we are
| obliged to send hurry orders to Lon
don, Ont, for field kitchens-a coun-
try that has been at war for two years
and that has raised and equipped from
one-twelfth Of the population Of the
L. S.. more than the whole U. S. army
and all it can muster in months.
Lord Save US from Woodrow Wilson
"preparedness"!
And that last paragraph-what is
the nature Of our prosperity? The