The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-12
But Many Believe, Colonel,
That War Is at Least As
Far Away as Next March /


The German U-boat raid off the New
England coast is vigorously resented by
Theodore Roosevelt principally, we feel
because resenting it is considered 5y the
Colonel the political thing to do.
Somehow or other the Colonel has IL
figured out that these U-boat raids reflect
on the Wilson administration and show
up the policy that has been pursued in
Washington since the opening Of hosulI-
ties in Europe-the policy, by the way.
that HAS KEPT Us OUT OF THE WAR.
The Colonel sees a menace 20 the Unit
ed States in the presence off our shores
of German submarines, but submarines
aren't found hanging around anywhere
unless there are ships of bellgerents u
attack, so we presume we are justified in
our own belief that the real menace lies
in the presence of trading ships that are
subject to attack.
Maybe we could have these trading
ships agree TO have themselves attacked
at some other point in the ocean-say on
the other side of the ocean, instead Of on
this side-and save the Colonel all this
annoyance
We don't know when we have seen the
Colonel so "all het up about anything,
unless it was in 1912 when the Old Guard
was kicking his delegates out of the Re
publican National convention, and it
seems that little matter like the presi-
dency of the United States was at stake
at that time, also.
The Colonel saw the presidency going
to Democrat unless he was nominated
then, and he had it figured out correctly.
too.
We begin to feel that the Colonel fears
1t is going a second time to that same
Democrat, hence this pitch he has per
mitted himself to be worked up 10.
It's "two-gun" pitch that has hold
of the Colonel right now.
The war "stares at u.s." he declares
very solemnly.
1t has been staring at US for some
time.
No longer, Of course, than We have
been staring at it, but what the Colonel
wants US TO take notice oil, is the fact
that war is doing its staring at the pres
ent moment from the three mile zone"
What do we mean by the three-rl.le
zone, do We hear you ask?
Well, it's like this
AS long as these German submarine
that have the Colonel 70 terribly excited
keep three miles out in the ocean, war
can stare at us as much as it likes and
the stare isn't any more Ominous, despite
the Colonel's excitement, than as If the
war were staring at us from the North
sea or off the dock in London.
And what a German submarine doe.
outside of this three-mile zone isn't anv
of our business and nothing for us TO get
excited over, so long as the submarine
confine themselves TO interuationaI Hoyla.
which they would have to do, also, il they
were operating in the North sea
OF course, it is too bad that they should
have come close enough to give the
Colonel Whit of their powder becaus,
Whit of powder in the Colouels case
works not unlike a Whit of blood does In
the case Of wild beast.
That's why a lot Of people are glad M,
Colonel didn't happen 10 be president
when the European war broke out.
We feel il our duty 10 call yom attcn-
ton once again DO the fact that prcsi-
dental election approaches, and Chat one
of the candidates is man whom the
Colonel doesn't liko-a man, really. whom
the Colonel bitterly detests.
The Colonel is campaigning for Hughes