New Britain herald., 1916-10-18

| and yet in a message to the legisla-
ture while governor of New York
he violently opposed the income tax.
| He condemns President Wilson's ap-
| pointments as political, and yet he
appointed machine leaders and the
pals of political bosses to high Of
| fetal places in the State Of New
| York He talks Of the need of con-
servation of our natural resources,
end yet as governor of New York
! he signed an amendment to the no
| torious Long Sault water power bill
| which turner over q tremendous wa
ter power on the st. Lawrence river
to a water corporation without ade-
| Quate compensation. And so fragrant
was this water power grab that a
| subsequent legislature was forced tc
| repeal by popular demand the very
! law which the present republican cam
didate for president signed. And when
| these facts percolate out here through
! the west I am quite sure that our
republican friends will hop again,
change their hues. raise new cries
and like the Huma, keep on the wing
National Honor.
When the props fall out from be-
| meath every other issue and they are
| driven to take their stand in the last
| ditch our opponents wave the star
spangled banner and talk of national
| honor. They talk Of national honor
/ as if by some Divine commission they
| had been appointed the keepers and
| interpreters of the honor and real
| dishonor can be felt and are felt by
| the lowest toi1er in the land as
! acutely and as accurately as by even
a real lawyer or even a. presidential
| candidate. Instinct serves better here
! than legal speculation or metaphysical
distinction. The man in the street,
the toiler on the field, the artisan in
the shops, the man who shoulders his
nlusket and marches away at his
| country's call needs no lawyer no
! statesman, no interpreter to tell him
| when the honor of his nation is out
ragged or the glory of his flag is sullied
| 1t is an elemental instinct which
! knows without knowing why. 1t is an
! elemental instinct which enables even
/ the unschoolel to know right from
| wrong, justice from injustice, prin-
! ciple from prejudice, passion from
| reason. When the honor of our
| country is outraged and the glory Of
| cur flag assailed the people will know
! it without any political leader telling
| them. If such an insult ever comes
| to this country the great mass of the
| people who will have to do the fight
| ing Will not have to be called to war.
| They will call themselves to war.
| They will rally around the stars and
| stripes as their fathers rallied at Lex
| 1ngton and Concord, at Saratoga and
| at yorktown and they will rally with
the blessing and the prayers of those
| left at home, sorrowing in anxiety but
| eXult1ng in self-sacrif1ce to preserve
| our honor and to glorify our flag.
Form Is Secondary; Result Is Primary.
10 maintain our national honor
| by peace if we can but by war If we
must is the motto Of Woodrow Will
| son. But before submitting to the
| chance and misery of war; true states
man that he is, he proposes to put the
| reason and justice and negotiations
| to the test Just as Horace Greedy
| criticised the form of Lincoln's nego-
| tiation, just as Alexander Hamilton
| and Rufus King criticised the form of
the Genet negotiations when Washing
| ton was president, just as the mem
! bers of John Adams own cabinet
| criticised his negotiations in averting
war with France, just as John Ran
dolph criticised the farm of Jeffer-
sons negotiations with France and
( just as fanatics condemned Lincoln
| for overruling his secretary of the
navy and even the house Of represent
| tattyes in the Trent affair with Eng
| land, just so for personal and political
! purposes ambitious partisans criticise
! the policies of President Wilson
! There never was penned an important
| diplomatic document that was not
criticised by some one, because
/ phraseology is largely a matter of
education, taste and temperament. In
diplomacy form Is secondary, result
is primary. Form is matter of