The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-10-10
"HE KEPT US OUT OF WAR"


Grover Cleveland once remarked
that there is no caltmity which a
great nation can invite which equals
that which follows supine sub
mission to wrong and injustice and
the subsequent loss of national self
respect and honor beneath which
are shielded a peoples safety and
greatness"
That calm statement Of fact and
opinion by the present Presidents
single Democratic predecessor since
the War of the Rebellion was not
uttered from the safe cdoister of
private life immune from account
ability. 1t was addressed to the gov
eminent of Great Britain during Mr..
Cleveland's incumbency of the pres
idency when that nation proposed to
seize certain Venezuelan territory
and declined to arbitrate. To it, he
added that lit will be The duty of
the United States to resist, by ev-
cry means in its power, as a will
full aggression upon its rights and
interests. the appropriation Of any
lands or the exercise ,of any govern
mental jurisdiction over any terri
tory which. after investigation, we
have determined of right belongs to
Venezuela"
No war or rumor of war followed
that straightforward statement of
undiluted Americansim. The sole
result was a prompt withdrawal of
British designs against venezuela
and the proposed contravention OF
the Monroe doctrine. The difficulty
was peacefully and satisfactorily adj
Justed and Great Britain acquired
for the United States a new and
most wholesome emotion of respect.
Evidently there was no thought in
His Majesty's government that
President Cleveland was twisting
the British lions tail for his own
amusement or for political purposes
at home. His reputation for FIRM
ness and for making good his words
precluded any such suspicion.
What would have occurred bad Mr..
Cleveland INDUCED in any too-proud
to-fight nonsense or had his Sec
rotary of State privately assured the
words quoted above were devoid of
everything but noise it is not diff
cult to conceive. Great Britain
would have proceeded and there
would ultimately have been war,
the consequence Mr.. Cleveland WITS
most anxious to avoid. But the Mon
roe doctrine was preserved intact,
the cordial relations between the
two great English speaking nations
preserved, and notice given to the
world that the United States propos-
ed to defend that national self
respect and honor beneath which
preserved a peoples safety and great
ness.
Grover Cleveland ratified the sab
er only to prove he had one, which
obyiated the necessity of using it.
He gave the American people real
leadership in a trying hour and he
brought them safely to peace with
national prestige enhanced and a
definite, traditional American poll
cy more firmly fixed than before
He kept us out of war" without
that loss of national self respect
and honor beneath which are shield
ed a peoples safety and greatness. "
He kept us out of war" because
England did not want war and re-
treated rather thin have it, Mr..
Wilson has kept us out of war be-
cause none wants war with us, but
ii was Mr.. Wilson who did the re-
treating, destroying in his flight
that national self respect and hon
or beneath which aare shielded ma
TONS safety ind greatness. Her
aid Republican,