The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-01
saluted?
Three Years Of ANARCHY.

committed on women. and ever! elt
ment telling for law ana order .-
tematically hunted down ara ,eei et,d
or driven out Of the country
"Mr. Wilson. through t,ese tr.s
years, has actiyelg interfeTed IN Ne,
leo and throughout the time h. has
consistently inleffered on benz. ri
some represenlaliye Of banditry ~ ,lr6
forces of ANARCHY He has done .,sry-
thing he could against or in disregard
OF the men who represent the only
chance TO get peace and orderly liberty
for tie Mexican people.
Second War with Mex;co
HE is now engaged in a second war
In Mexico. He is wsging d war asains,
villa. with whom little more Than a
year ago he concluded what was in
effect a treaty Of peace and friends hin
formally entered into through one NJ
tho highest officers Of the United sta ,ra
army. General Scott, by President Nu.
sons direction.
photographs of General villa and
General Scott and the other partici-
pants in this extraordinary III n,
treaty making were published broad.
cast throughout the press. You can
find one OF them in the files a, tha
Metropolitan magazine Of about a vea :
ago. e''
u most earnestly wish peace in Me.-
leo and with Mexico. and every sten
Mr.. Wilson has taken with regard ~
Mexico for the last three years hs .
tended to make peace Impossible.
Failed OF Preparation.
THE great war in Europe has now
been waged for twenty months. Mer.
lean armed forces have been killing
and wounding Americans at Intervals
for five years. yet under the presidents
lead our governmenthas failed to MAKE
the smallest measure II preparedness
"As regards Mexico our governments
has apparently believed It could insnre
peace by helpinE ilrs, one and then
another among ho warning chiefs al
banditry and nov IL Is endeavoring IA
prop up Carrar2a against its former
favorite, Villa.
I'm his message to Congress Of De-
cember. 1914. President Wilson assert
ed we were thoroughly prepared to
defend our rights and that II was
historical and panicky to talk of the
need of further preparedness. He has
since forced out of the cabinet secre-
tary of war because the president
would not back even the small and in
sufficient measure of preparedness
which the secretary OF war advocated.
Unable to Guard Border.
In consequence, as Mr.. Wilson him
self said in one of his speeches last
February, he has been exposed to the
humiliation OF being unable to patrol
our own borders to protect it against
bandits. We broke down completely
even in the preparedness necessary for
the minute expedition that has gone
into Mexico.
Our aeroplane service went tn
pieces. just as previously our s,1bma-
rine service had gone TO pieces. The
army and navy officers are not in the
least to blame. but the president and
MS subordinates, whose notions for the
last three years have caused these
calamtties, are woefully 10 blame.
our troops are now 200 miles In
Mexico and 1t is announced that the
government is trying 10 buy automo-
bile trucks for them IN Michigan.
Sees "Glnstly NIisconduct.c
The president is right to use the
word humiliation. II Is that, and more
than that, for the American people.
and 1t represents ghastly misconduct
on the part OF our government officials
In the last three year..
II there Is this complete breakdown
on the part OF the government of
ms great and wealthy nation OF 10O.-
ooo.Oo0 inhabitants in dealing with a
bandit raid. think of tine serious dis
aster that would befall US under such
government II we were ever mem
aced by serious war.
Immediately after the sinking OF
the Lusitania, President Wilson made
his famous speech about orr heinz
too proud to fight" A few days lat
er on May 81. as reported in the New
YORK Times, he explained that he was
not willing to speak about patriotism
at Independence hall at Philadelphia
on July 5. saying: This is perhaps
the very time would not cara to
arouse the sentiment of patriotism,
ASHAMED OF Being Rash.r
Tile other day in his speech at the
Gridiron club he was reported No saw
ing that he would be as mnch
ashamed of being rash Ms Of being
cowardly, which stand on an exact mar
with statement by woman that
she would be as much ashamed Of he
ing quick=tempered as of being un-
chaste.
These three sentences are eauiva-
lent to the statement that patriotism
Is sometimes dangerous yirtue and
cowardice verlial vice.
IA nation whose official heads cnn-
duct It's foreign affairs and handle Its
army and navy In accordance with
these principles will encounter ,nre-
cisely such experiences MS lis nation
has encountered during the LAST three
wears and will earn for |, eli no ms
sibtlity of the most terrible ,iiskrace
md disaster N the fntur
Speaks with Eager Acmorv
The colonels' statcmen da,;v.
cred eStemporancously to tt.. CORE
siMa,. ~ Nv, VINO SAT around In the
s Ma ~. y, MS us nome at Sag Hill.
t ne S sn'.ss MS meme so W rat he
s mas . a,.s 70 SWING aroun chair
DRY from memoranda on h u
The remainder of the Tina ia
leaned forward, sure of his rro,nd.
his eyes shining eagerly and now and
then the open palm OF his right hand
smacking his knee for cmphasis
HIS statement is bell.yel To- indi-.