Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-15
AMERICANISM AND PEACE;
 PREPAREDNESS, PROSPERITY
These Are the Issues on Which the Democratic Party Stands Wilson's Foreign Policy That of Great
 Leaders from Washington Down, Glynn Shows

mitted any thought of partisan profit ! any consideration of political advan 1 tage to obscure our vision of tht | tremendous issues now before tht people of the United States. We mus cast aside all that is selfish, we mus | hold ourselves worthy of nations confidence by offering only the bes of our intelligence, the flower of oul patriotism toward the solution o what all men perceive to be crisis 1 in the nations affairs
 Wilson's Peace Policy.
 In asking for an endorsement ol the presidents peace policy MT Glynn said:
 For two years the world has been afire; the civilization that we know has been torn by the mightiest strug- gle in it's history. Sparks from Eu- ropes conflagration have bazed in our own skies, echoes of her strife have sounded at our very doors. Tha' | fire still burns, that struggle still continues, but thus far the United States has held the flame at bay; thus far it has saved it's people from participation in the conflict.
 What the people of the United States must determine through their suffrage. is whether the course the 1 country has pursued through this crucial period is to be continued; whether the principles that have been asserted as our national policy shall be endorsed or withdrawn.
 "This is the paramount issue. No lesser issue must cloud it, no unre- lated problems must confuse it."
 In declaring that the policy of neu- trality is as American as the Amerl- can flag, MT. Glynn asserted that:
 "Ihe first president of the Uaited States was the first man to pronounce neutrality rule of international con duct.
 Stands with Washington. "In April, 1793 Washington declar- ed the doctrine; and within a month John Jay, chief justice of the su- preme court of the United States, in an epoch making decision from the bench whose realization would ensure universal and perpetual peace. wrote ' the principle into the law of this, land , The Declaration of Independence had foretold it by declaring the rest o1 mankind enemies in war, in peace friends; the constitution recognized it: but the first president of the Unit ed States by proclamation, the first chief justice by interpretation gave it vitality and power.
 | ''The president of the United States l stands today where stood the meI i who5 made America and who savet | America. He stands where Johr Adams stood, when he told King /, George that America was the land ht loved and that peace was her gran deur and her welfare. He stands where General Grant stood when nc said there never was a war tha could not have been settled better some other way, and he has show1 his willingness to try the ways o peace before he seeks the paths o l war. He stands where George Wash ington stood when he prayed tha this country would never unsheatl the sword except in self-defense s' long as justice and our essentla rights could be preserved without 1t l For vain glory or for selfish pur poses, others may cry up policy o blood and iron, but the president 0 the United States has acted on th' belief that the leader of nation wh' plunges his people into an unneces sary war, like Pontius Pilate. vainl, washes his hands of innocent bloo' 1 while the earth quakes and the heav ems are darkened and thousands giv up the ghost"
 If Washington and Lincoln Right Wilson Right,
 Speaking of the opposition to tn presidents peace policy, the speake continued:
 "By opposing what we stand for to day, the Republican party opposes what Hamilton stood for a centur ago. The founder of the Republican party and the founder of the Demo cratic party. placing their country happiness above every other consid | eration, forgot partisanship and mad American neutrality a national creed l We who follow Jefferson stand wher Jefferson stood, but we look in vail for a sign from the present leader of the Republican party to show tha they follow where Hamilton lec Where Hamilton counseled modera tion they denounce it. Where Hamll ton thought only of country the think only of self. Where Hamilton placed patriotism above partisanshi they placed partisanship above patri otism. How then do they dare t speak for the great body of Americal citizens who form the rank and til of the Republican party? Do thes leaders believe that their Republi canism is a better Republicanisr than Hamilton's. their Americanism purer Americanism than that o 1 Washington?
 eff Washington was right. if Jeffer son was right, if Hamilton was right if Lincoln was right. then the presi i dent of the United States is right to day: if the Republican leaders ar l right then Lincoln was wrong an Jefferson was wrong and Hamilto was wrong and Washington wa wrong"
 Justification of History. 1 The justification of our policy c neutrality is expressed by MT. Glyn | in these words: