Mountain advocate., 1916-10-27

spy great cause or on account OF any
wrong hereafter done to this country:
and that the truth was expressed the
other day by his eager eulogist, Score
tary Baker, when he said that he was
! glad" that no one could insult MI
| Wilson and make him go to war"
unquestion General Csrranza and
| probably Herr Won Tirpitz heartily
agree With Secretary Baker-snd deep
| in his own heart am inclined to 30
! licve that Nj Wilson himself also
agrees with him.
Two OF Mr. wilson's most distin.
! guished champions, one official aud
/ cue non. official, tske the same view.
Secretary Lane stated that the fact
that American citizens have been
killed by outlaws and bandits" was a
proper subject for much regret but
not for sacrificing the blood of our
sons" Does he think that a woeful al.
fusion of regret" is the way to move
bandits Dr. Charles w. Eliot. former
President OF Harvard, praises Mr..
Wilson for having made great con.
tribution TO the peace OF the world
and to the promotion OF humane and
just dealings between nations by
having gone far TO establish as the
American policy the policy OF non.
In eryention BY force of arms for the
protection of miners. commercial ad.
venturers. inventors and workmen In
foreign parts and by having refused
TO adopt the "malign suggestion 10
protect the lives OF these men by
punitive expeditions and compelled
agI eements" Reduced TO concrete
terms this statement OF DIR. Eliot is
that President Wilson Is greatly to
be praised because he took no action
when some nineteen fine. unoffending.
hard working and totally unarmed
American miners. and engineers. were
taken from a railroad train. tortured
and murdered by an armed Mexican
force Dr. Eliot has been severe
censor OF political morals, strong in
his condemnation of bosses, crooked
politicians, and demagogic labor lead
ers; but no corrupt boss, no crooked
scienceless capitalist, has ever preach
ed or practiced more degrading doc
trine a doctrine more ruinOus TO the
soul and the manhood of this nation,
or more destructive to humanity and
Justice in the world al large, than the
doctrine thus set forth by this former
College President. There can be no
more severe condemnation OF Mr.. Will
son than to say that he is not un-
worthy of such praise. American
women are raped and American chill
dren murdered In Mexico, Amer.
lean men are tortured to death:
hundreds OF our people are slain; con-
tinual torays are made into our own
territory. MEXICO itself is utterly de-
Vastated and its people slaughtered by
the hundred thousand; and Or. Eliot
dsnounces as "malign suggestion
any proposal to pat stop 10 these
horrors in the only way by which II
j. possible to stop them. 1t would be
unfair 10 China to compare DIR. Eliot
with even al old.schoOl Chinese
! statesman II he really represents
/ the American people then let us by
( all means abandon the Monroe Doc
/ trine. and preparedness. and patriot
| ism, and every form of manliness. ma
| ,ional ana individual: let us leave
! Mexico TO be set straight by Germany
/ or England or Japan; and let us sit in
| helpless folly at home until some
/ yirile nation makes US what We would
under such conditions deserve TO be
made--the hewers OF wood and draw
| ers OF water for alien conquerers But
! II we Americans are fit sons OF our
sires. II We are worthy of our fore
fathers OF the days OF Washington, II
We are entitled 10 claim kinship with
| the valiant souls who wore the blue in
| the armies OF Grant or the gray in the
armies OF Lee, let US treat such coun-
| sci with the derision II deserves, and
/ view with deep suspicion the Presi-
dent who has earned such support.
| There was probably no American
outside his own immediate following
more anxious TO see him succeed. and
more disappointed when he failed
I than | was | criticise him only be-
cause by duty as an American citizen.
proud OF his country and jealous OF
! ner honor, forces me 10 stand against
him. Apparently the chief claim ad'
yanced for Mr.. Wilson now is that he
has kept us out OF war" Mr. Wilson
himself said in effect the other day
that II he was not elected we would
have war Yet Mr.. Wilson, through
the Democratic platform. announces
that the Mexicans have made war
upon us. and have murdered our citi'
Gems" Apparently Mr.. Wilson does
not mind the Mexicans being at war
with US, as long as we are not at war
with the Mexicsns. MT. Wilson's con-
ception OF war painfully resembles
| that described by Mr. stephen Lea.
cock in his anecdote OF how Mr.. Smith
took Mr.. Tompkins by the coat collar
from behind and began kicking him
vigorously, and the fight continued in
this manner for several minutes" The
war out OF which Mr. Wilson has not