French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-05-11
MIGHIYrGERMAN WRITER
DEFEND PRESIDENT WILSON.
Famous Berlin Editor Returns to an
Exhaustive defense Of Americas.
Chief Executive.

Berlin, Friday May 5, via London,
May 6-After figuratively taking the
public's bPeath away two weeks ago
by a daring article captioned IF T.
Were Wilson, Macmillan Harden to-
day returns to an exhaustive defense
of President Wilson. his policy and the.
entire American standpoint.
In a leader in The zukunft entitled
The Real Wilson," Herr Harden
praises President Wilson as "a man
of high moral and high spiritual
character Of whom we might be proud}3
if he were sours." What the writen1
characterizes las "LazyIfgnorance" isl
represented as "~shattefing from the
msntel of would be patriotism, which
in reality Mas nothing ID common with
genuine patriotism, Fhen5s President
Wilson ISL assaiIed as re Frequently
has been.E
/. "NinetyFhine one-hundreths of ali
the so-called wal literature" Herr
Harden continues, stshould be sent
where it belong-to the paper mills
and the mblic shouldreturh to books
Iom which azwide awake spirit speaks,
neutrality-suspicious. Wilson'S The New
Freedom. s. Then perhaps, pure com
mon sense will return to you and
awaken you to the duty of respecting
the dignity of foreign peoples"
Herr Harden follows with a brief
characterRsketch of President Wilson
in whichEhe calls the President ga
brave OPPONENT of evil and abuses"
and alludes to him as4A"actuated by "a
love for his people and possessed Of
the will to lead them to the heights OF
his ideals after they had gotten into
the swamp land"
Germany he adds. should be
ashamedSsof people who SANDER him
because they have read calumny in
newspapers"
In all his controversies with Ger
many, says Herr Harden, President
aWilson' has acted from absolute con-
SYiction. 4, Dare we measure by the
STANDARD, of a Students %squabble the
SQmplainfs of a great free Nation led
by a man of weight and importance of
President Wilson," asks the writer.
+""1f President Wilson, after a thorough
investigation is convinced that war
tf:pNike actS4of Germany. have broken the
saws OF humanity, it was not only his
right but it was his. duty to talk witt,
clearnesS He owes this not only as
a dutyI to himself but tq. US"
!, Turning to the position of Chancel-
!, lor o Behmann-Hollweg in the pres
) emit controversy, Herr Harden says;
1.-The daring of the Chancellor 'must
not appEp2imate that of a'suD-marine
commander"
! Herr Harden next turns. his guns on
! Herr You Heydebrand; Conservative
leader id the Reichstag, because of his
attack 6ni America in connection with
the Sussex note charactetizing the at
I tack aS "sorrowful abuse. in which
|. there dsanot a glimmer of statesman.
!, ship" In alluding to Herr o Heyde.
t brands assertion that America stood
4 in close connection with england, be-
J fore the war. Herr Harden points ouI
that Germany also did. SO with Italy
Russia. Japan. Portugal and England
r Herr E6n Heydebrands assertion tina
E America was at first secretly and ther
openly on the side Of Germany
. enemies. Herr Harden claims not t.
( have been proved and he declares tina
America has never violated neutrality