The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-09-19

world war began Wilson did not rais.
finger to put us in a condition of
defense. Only the proverbial good
luck of America has kept us from
paying the bitterest price for his un.
forgivable neglect.
We have all heard him ridicule the
idea of greater navy. then declare
Tor incomparably the greatest navy in
tie world, and then go back on that.
We have all heard him declare for
tolls in the Panama Canal: and have
seen him show our own people and
the English that he did not mean IL.
We have seen him elected on plat
form which pledged him to single
term as President and then become
candidate for another term.
We have all heard him declare for
the Conservation of our natural re.
sources; and have seen him neglect
that policy, and refuse his help to
defeat the Shields waterpower bill,
the most dangerous attack on Conser.
walton since Ballingers effort to turn
Alaska over to the GuEgenheims.
We have all heard him declare for
efficiency in government and have
seen him set the pork barrel first ard
throw efficiency away. / have known
Official Washington from the inside
FOR six administrations In that time
the government business has never
been so badly done and so extrava.
gantly as it is now done under VIII
son.
We have all heard him announce
himself as the champion of Civil
Service reform; and have seen him
turn the government departments ov
er to the spoilsmen as no other pres
tdent has done in twenty years.
We have all heard him declare for
pitiless publicity; and have seen him
conduct the most secret administers
ton of our time.
We have heard him announce him
self as President Of the people. and
have seen him, as the most partisan
President Of his generation flout and
oppose the Progressives, whom now,
because he needs them he seeks to
conciliate and enlist.
Worst of all Is this: When every
principle of freedom and equality for
which our fathers fought was at stake
in the great war, when our whole
country eagerly awaited the leader
ship of the President, Wilson dodg
ed. He refused to take sides on the
greatest moral issue of our time. He
advised our people to be neutral ev
right and wrong. While our friends
abroad were fighting for the princi-
pies we held equally with them, he
taught us that profits and ease were
better than self respect. President
Wilson has done our nation the most
serious injury that any leacer can
do to any people by making us finch
with him from a great moral deci-
sion. Thereby he weakened our hold
alone can make any people self lie.
speeding, safe and strong.
Having led US wrong on the ground
that we must be neutral in the face
of the deliberate breaking of the
worlds peace, he has just reversed
himself again, and in his speech at
Shadow Lawn now assures US that:
No nation can any longer remain neu-
trail as against any wilful disturb
ance of the peace of the world.
II Is bad enough that Wilson's for
eign policy has left us as the wal
draws toward its end, without friend
among the great nations of the world
and without the respect of any one
of them. What is worse is that ne
has kept us from standing up for
what we know to be right.
The ignoble standard of profit over
principle which Mr.. Wilson forced
upon the country in our foreign rela-
lions, he has applied to himself as
President. In what he has said. done
and left undone the record shows him
steadily dominated by political eXpe-
diency.
These facts and many others like
them, have forced me to see that what
Mr.. Wilson says is no sign OF what
he has done or of what he will do.
The one thing his record shows is
that what he stands for now he is not
likely to stand for long. I do not care
what his platform or his campaign de.
clarations may be, because the com
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