St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-10-04
In the Miro of FalsehOOds.

The presidential campaign mas
reached a stage that the president OF
the United States in a panic Of fright
has plunged into the hopeless mire OF
falsehood. He made at Shadow
Lawn last Saturday what is reported
as his first out-and-out political
speech" of the campaign. In it ne
made this statement:
The republican party as now con-
stituted and led believes in govern
ment - the attorneys of special IN
terests.
This is a plain unvarnished lie
spoken by the president OF the United
States. The statement need not be
argued, simply properly named. and
the public need not give it further at
tention. Here is another statement.
Unfortunately, however. one thing
has become reasonably clear, my fell
low-citizens, and it is a very serious
thing indeed. One thing has become
evident not because it was explicitly
stated, for nothing has been explicit
ly state, but because it is unmlstaK-
ably implicit in almost everything
that has been said. Am 1 not right
that we must draw the conclusion
that if the republican party is put
into power at the next election, our
foreign policy will be radically chang-
ed? | cannot draw any other IN
ference. All our present foreign
policy is wrong they say, and II 1T is
wrong and they are men or CON
science, they must change it. And II
they are going to change it, in what
direction are they going to change IL I!
There is only one choice, as
against peace and that is war. Some
of the supporters of that party very
great body of the supporters of that
party outspokenly declare that they
want war, so that the certain prospect
of the success of the republican party
Is that we shall be drawn in one form
or other into the ENVIRONMENTS of the
European war, and that to the south
of us the force of the United States
will be used to produce in Mexico the
kind of law and order which some
American investors in Mexico con-
slider most to their advantage.
do not find that anybody else's
counsel is taken in respect OF the
policy that this country should pur-
sue with regard to Mexico except
those who have hitherto acted as the
counselors for the vested interests III
Mexico
The nurse who hasn't the mora
force to control a child cries ghosts
or some other non-existent terror IL
an effort to keep the child from do
ing something it wants to do. VIZ
can think of no truer illustration Of
the president of the United States
painting the hideous monster of wal
in the republican column, than thu
incompetent nurse lying to the child
she cannot control.
The foreign policy of this countr!
can be very radically changed with
out plunging the country into wa
with a European power. Here is on
way, the president of America cal
say to foreign powers what he mean
and mean what he says. He coul
act decisively as Pres. Roosevelt dl
with Germany when it was trying t
gain a foothold in Venezuela, an
protect American principles withou
war. He might protect America
citizens in foreign countries, tire
mendous change in policy from tn
present incumbent, and not brin
even a threat of war.
Much more might be said but
would only go to prove that tn
president of the United States hs
again been frightened into the mil
of falsehoods and is sinking, as r
deserves, into it's black and stranglir
contamination.