Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-12

~, the same ideas as duelling. Former
w. IL a man wronged another he couio
make the wrong right il his might WIN
sword or pistol enabled him 10 au0
murder to the wrong, society remain
ing neutral. But society abanooheo
neutrality, declared dueliing CRIME
ard stopped it. Neutrality is vice OF
the same kind as the public sentl-
ment" which upholds rumseihns anu
furnishes an excuse for nuiityihs u
ficials. In jefferson county, LOUISIANA,
a lawless saloon keeper shot ana hlleo
a policeman, and was himself wound
ed by the chief Of police. The county
officials took sides with the rumdog.
let him go scott free, and conVicted
the chief of police Of attempt to kill.
Rut the governor refused to remain
neutral. sent in the militia. cleaned up
the place and ordered the attorney
general to prosecute the county OIL
GERS.
Among the crimes against American
industry for it's share in defending
civilization should be reckoned the
splurges of the pro-German logothetes
in Congress who have renewed the at
tack on the shipment OF munitions TO
the allies. Ex-President Taft smashed
their contention the first time 1t ap-
peared. w. ]. Bryan shot it to pieces
in a letter to Sen. Stone of the foreign
relations committee. Sec. Lansing ran
the remains through a meat chopper
in his reply to Austria. Otto Koenig's
Christian Herald. by asserting last
June that but for the shipment OF
arms from America the war would be
over in five weeks" meaning OF course
that his "Vaterland' would be victo-
rious, revealed the true spirit of their
protest and washed away whatever
salt Of reason might have seemed to
preserve it. Hearst's papers and 9TH
ers had a share in the same process.
Then came the beginning made by
our government in prosecuting the
German agents who engineered and
financed the thing. and the revelations
already made have reduced it to rot
ten carrion. Now these logOthetes are
endeavoring to call the putrid mess
back to life. There are few things in
our history more foul, more in the ma
ture of serving hell in the livery of
Heaven, than the attempt to prevent
American industry off-setting Ger
many's super-preparedness. And when
these same people oppose our pre-
paredness they prove that they wish
to see Germany rule the world. Mel
len, of railroad notoriety, is the only
one whom 1 have known to acknowl-
edge frankly their true viewpoint. He
hoped Germany would win, for Ger
many deserved to win because of thor
Ough preparation. Which is exactly OPP
posite to the right view. These. logo
thetes, including the writer of the New
York letter in the Maine Farmer, raw
ed lin the interest of peace and neu-
trality!?!?!?) about the floating of
temporary loan to France and England,
to stabilize our own currency. Have
you heard them zip against the sale
of long-term German and Austrian
bonds, now so widely advertised? The
logothetc stops with words, because ne
does not know or does not mean what
he says, or because his words are not
true. If Woodrow Wilson be logothete,
what shall we say of Theodore Roose-
velt's congressional son-in-law, at
lacking American industry, American
principle, American humanity, in the
interest of the foreign relatives of his
hyphenate constituency?
Yours for true and righteous peace,
E. EDGAR HARRIS.
East Corinth, Me-. JAN TO- 1916.