Semi-weekly herald., 1916-10-26
Worse and More of 1t.

totelHS tidt u Illlle country ike
Mexico had bluffed him to a stand
still, the Germans had no hesitation
in blowing up the Lusitania. He
wrote "em a third. Every time they
would blow up ship, and kill his
citizens, he'd get even by writing 'em
a note.
Then the English began to stop
his mails. He turns right around
and writes them letter-just like
that! He sticks in fresh carbon and
slams out another good, hot one to
Carranza who has just slaughtered a
lot of American soldiers at Carrizal,
demanding that he send Immediately
three representatives to spend nice
fortnight at New London, Conn at
his expense, to talk over the matter
So many of these notes has he
written that it's getting 50 now that
Ltrdly anybody bothers - answer
HIM any more. European dignitaries
are opening their morning mail. They
see large envelope with due
stamp on it.
'Who's that from?" they ask.
"Only Uncle Sam" says the secre-
retary.
"Chuck it in the waste basket"
they say, "He won't do anything"
And its the truth. The Wilsonized
Uncle Sam won't. When he said that
there was such thing as being too
proud to fight, that fixed him with
the world. Washington and Lincoln
and Grant weren't too proud to
fight. They were too proud not to.
If, in four years, with a concrete
example before him three hundred
and sixty-five days out of every one,
a man can't realize that diplomatic
note unbacked by force is of precise
ly the same value as bank cheque
unbacked by funds, what hope is
there fore him?
As to Keeping Tut of War.
Two reasons they give you for vot-
ing woodrow wilson.
The first is that he has kept us out
Of war. If indeed he has, how has
he done so?
He has kept us out of war first by
stullifying our national patriotism
and by encouraging our national
selfishness.
He has kept us out of war by the
simple method of running away. A
man can't very well get into fight
II he's willing to run away and every
body happens to be too busy to
chase him.
He has kept us out of war in the
third place because he's given us
nothing with which to go to war in
the first place.
And in the fourth place, he hasn't
kept us out of war at all. Mexican
soldiers have killed American soldiers
and American soldiers have killed
Mexican soldiers. And if that isn't
war, what is it? A lawn party?
We Are Laying Up Disaster
Furthermore, while his debilitation
OF patriotism may postpone for a
time war of any magnitude, it
means that we are but laying up dis
ister for our children some day to
meet when, finding themselves like
China, fat and easy prey for other
nations, they will have to shed their
hearts blood to pay for our shame
less blunders.
We can make ourselves great and
strong beyond attack. Shall we do
this? Or shall we keep on under Will
son borrowing trouble for our chill
dren to pay with their lives? For, in
two long years, Woodrow Wilson has
accomplished far worse than nothing.
The mangled corpses of the Lusitan-
ia are now rotting skeletons; yet has
Germany not atoned. England is
treating us not as we, but as she,
chooses. All he has succeeded in do
ing is to earn for America and Amer
leans the contempt, the disgust, or
the sympathy of every nation of the
world.