The Alaska daily empire., 1916-05-22
MIR. lRvING's INDICTMENT

The talented chairman of the Republican ierrltoF' al committee has indicted President Wilson TOT oe,ns politically dishonest and m support ol 's rves ment in communication in the Oispa.Cn' .s, ns s,,s thirteen instances where alleges that the Pdesoe"' has either changed his mind or Is nconsistant
 or course one can understand how greatly shocked a Republican leader may become over if constituencies in this year 1916. when the oppoSton w .t p~osidar, Is hesating as to whether t will attach his administration for being too vigorous ID up holding the rights of Americans or for oelns LOO "S' whether it will follow the example or the IA Nepuo ncans who voted in Congress to support lhe F'esiue rern policy or the 114 who voted to surrender tne ghts of Americans on the high seas; whether N VIII follow the action the recent Republican Sena'ol1i caucus that voted Co support the PreSioeneS HeNls poicv or whether it will follow Hearst h oecNi'ne that he should have cleaned out Mexico; whether N will condemn him for not reversing the Tat poicy oy recognizing FIuerta or whether it Will remam si'ene on the question: whether t will nominate COL fsOOse' welt who thinks he should now be in Belgium @t tue head of 12000 Rough Riders. hgn'hs tue na''.. whether it will nominate Justice Hughes whom most of the professional German papers are snpporuns' whether it will enter only the elephant in the Presi' dental race or whether the moose ana the eepn""' both win run
 Of course The President has changed his mind. just ~ an ,he growing minds of ful grown men everywhere change with greater light and greater experience he recently expressed the hope that the time would never come when he would cease to change IS m'nu' for with the coming of such a time he would know I fHnf nn 70 i,nee Let us hope with him. and let us hope tnat all men in office and out of it Will change .nei minds whenever knowledge gained by deeper SeuoS and wider experience indicate that old policies were wrong There is an old saying that wise me" change their minds. fools never
 However President Wilson has changed his mind fewer times probably. than any other President we have had in recent times when one considers nov nov man ythngs have changed sncve ne oecame I'eSf many things have changed since he became freSi dent since Jefferson who had given such close and intelligent study to governmental problems
 But let us look into some of the instances that the Juneau prosecutor for political dishonesty cues
 President Wilson was in favor or the Gar
 rison continental army plan Now he IS
 against it. Secretary of War Garrison re-
 He stiii favors the Garrison plan. but did and does not believe that t would be wisdom to attempt to force 1t an unwilling Congress
 President Wilson was against and op-
 posed to increasing the navy. Now he de
 mands that the navy be made the largest
 in the yord.-tlrving)
 Not true but he believes now that conditions de mand larger increase than was thought 10 De nec' essary @ year two ago.
 President Wilson was opposed to tar
 riff commission. Now he demands a tariff
 commission (frvingl
 There is all the difference in the world between tariff commission after the special privilege protecting tarin wall has been demolished and one when 1t was intact It will be easy for @ tariff commission to face of the specific opposition Of the beneficiary in- face of the specfc opposition of the beneficiary in terests would have been tedious. tiresome task
 President Wilson opposed to young
 men spending time in military training. Now he
 demands that 100000 be trained.-(Irying)
 He is now. he always has been. in favor or voluntary military service. But here. as in many other instances he is willing to yield something to those who differ him if necessary and has said that universal military service is not inconsistent with 8 democracy.
 President Wilson fayorel the Wilson
 brand of intervention in Mexico, and did
 send an army to intervene. Then he declared
 that While ! am President nobody shall in-
 terfere In Mexico" Now he is chasing one
 lone Greaser-tIrving)
 This is just childish pratue. Conditions in Mexico have been constantly changing. The President consulted freely with Root and Lodge and other Re.