New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-16
Democracy Made Good,
ollie James Tells Party
Goes Before the Country, Chairman Declares with a
Record of Deeds Under Wilson Never Reached
by Republicans.

I the American people navy ann army
in three months than Colonel Roosevelt
and Mr.. Taft did in eleven years.
For the frat time in the history oil
our country" said Senator james, after
: reviewing briefly Democratic leglsla-
ton. which he declared had made pros
perity possible. "the United States leads
the world in exports. We are more
pro-perous than ever, and mills when
/ have not turned = spindle for years are
now busy. All the laborers in the
United States are employed ms never
before. With the world war raging. our
country il the only neutral one that Is
not in distress and the only one that
has not declared a moratorium. Every
demand Of the stress OF war the Demo
cratic party has met quickly. We nave
freed business from the blackmail 0.
the politician as we have emancipated
il from the clutch OF monopoly"
wilson's Mexican Policy.
The Senator likened President VII
SON, Mexican policy TO that OF LIN
coin, and quoted from declarsti9n oi
10 latter 10 show that he had declined
TO intervene when conditions WIZ
much the same as now. =,
"It il perfectly easy thing Mr..
lanes continued. "for the President OF
tho United States to plunge his coun-
try into war IL he is politician before
he is a patriot. He would seek his own
reelection as he came upon horsebacH
I'M the bloodv highway OF contending
armies. or course, our army could IN
wade Mexico and march IN triumph 10
lie capital. but after tho war was over
other armies would march-an army
Of widows and orphans. an army OF
cripples and men broken in health, an
army OF pensioners, and an army OF
tax collectors gathering up the earn
ings Of the people to pay the grea'
war debt"
"No President during the life Of this
republic" said the Senator, mas ever
had TO deal with so many delicate ana
dangerous problems as those when
have confronted President wilson.
With more than half OF the worid IN
arms in Europe. with Mexico IN revolu-
ton At our border, these difficult and
complicsting problems have confronted
! him almost daily, and he has handled
them as becomes patriot and a states
man.
when the Lusitania was sunk the
militant voice OF Theodore Roosevelt
cried out for war. and II he had been
President Of the United States At thai
time. to-day 100000 brave American
sons would be contendlng around the
forts Of Nerdun IN this mighty maeis-
from OF blood thousands would have
been buried in bitches. Our Pres dent.
patient. patriotic. far-sighted, the real
statesman, handled this question with
the greatest ability. and won for Amer
lea It's greatest diplomatic victory.
"There are. happily, two kinds OF
courage, the courage Of the man who IS
willing TO undertake the dangers him
self. and the courage Of the man that
sends others 70 the conflict. Woodrow
Wilson has both kinds OF courage the
courage Of conflict and the courage 10
act coolly and sensibly when he is
dealing with the lives Of others-the
fate of nation.
-Four years ago We Sneeringly called
Woodrow Wilson the school teacher.
To-day he is the world teacher. His
subject the protection Of American
life and American rights under inter
national law. And without orphaning
single American child, without
widowing single American mother.
without firing single gun. he wrung
from the most militant spirit that ever
brooded above battlefield an acknowl-
edCement Of American rights and an
agreement 10 American demands. He
has elevated himself TO that lofty but
lowly eminence occupied by George
Washington. Abraham Lincoln and
Woodrow Wilson the three wors,
abused and best loved Americans the
republic ever grew"