The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-05-25
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATION OF THE CASE FOR
MR. WILSON


his expoer in the Tribune and Justice Hughes his euogst
in Colonel Harvey President Wilson also has his
In the pages of the Atlantic Monthly for May Prof Henry
Ford of Princeton (char of pocs forward
with apologize for 1.-THE Record of the Administration
which admirable in its Of sincerity conviction
The article prepared with skill that is almost uncanny
In spots it produces distinct illusion of making
for the presidents policies and achievements 1t is cac-
lated great effect easy requires
direct efforts of memory and reasoning to dsspate Prof
Fords air castles and restore the true figure and relationships
of passing events.
Reduced to its elements the Fordan method is simplicity
self You take any item Of recent history domestic colonial
diplomatic and resoutey believe that President Wilson's
regarding it wise and beneficial You say with
an air OF nay You ignore every fact principle that
might contradictory Then to another head
ing and repeat the process After while feeling of dazed
awakening takes hold of the reader and he says himself
"Why this be all right II wonder never saw it in
such light before used to think the president had FUN
bed little; apparently he has made all hit miss
instead How did form such different impressoni
Strong in his enthusiasm and confident in his arms Prof
Ford evades Of election There
il the Underwood tariff law, for nstance President Wilson's
share in its enactment is full conceded called extra
session. he cooperaed with the Democratic leaders in
Ting the Details he it in his address congress
When the senate started to modify the president publicly
declared that he had taken his stand with the
for the pending bill and that he looking accept
ing compromises Business appealed in van appears
it crime their part attempt to protect American
terests experts need apply the wachword The
dent fact denounced them for their intervention
Ford Probably other presidential utterance
had such tremendous reverheraton through the country
We had rather thought certain uerance about being
proud to fight made noise but this is only in passing
The point is that the bill through just shape the
president desired 1t that this was the whole
thing; what followed did not matter Prof Ford dsposes
the subject with quotation from Prof Taussigs Tariff His
tory of the United States setting forth that the act gave lit
tie evidence indeed any ALL Of the sort of manipulation
which had affected the details of the tariff of 1885, 1897
ana lSO9 truly perfect consummaton! Prof Ford for
obvious finds unnecessary to aude to the calam
tous state of American industry which resulted from the
to its total breakdown of for the
government Why becoud enthusiasm with embarrassing
factsf
The federal banking bill naturally exhibited as an
all WOOL yard wide triumph for the administration There
acknowledgment of the debt to the late Senator Ach and
the fact that the banks all came inn because the only alter
native liquidation is quietly ignored there mention
of the sectional and political that have been made of the
law since its enactment is the danger the fact of
faon to which it gives rise alluded to- The system
assumed to be perfect mechanism of finance instead of
notable reform OF financial methods, impaired by dangerous
features for which the president and his
pressly bameworthy.
Similar though brefer is the discussion of the Clayton and
trade commission acts Prof Ford ignores the presidents
surrender to labor dictaonor did he sell Mr. Gompers
gold brick in either perhaps silence is the best apology
The fact that the commission trying establish
for its existence by peddng out domestic trade information
to business something after the style of the
bureau plead Wsonan boon to the commercial world
o FORD does not or II he does he careful not to admit
that the commission has down to this pcayune perform
because the administration longer dares for the
purposes of dctation for which it contrived
Space fails traverse Prof Fords of the presi
dents foreign policies 1t is his misfortune however,
us his coored presentation of the Philippine
ton from the the house of representatives
should have sealed the condemnation of Mr. Wilson's chief
aspiration with the aid of thirty Democratic The dis
cusson of the Mexican mudd has not word about the Vera
Cruz ascot probably written early touch the
present punitive ncursion with its impending lame and
potent conclusion The amusing defence of the admnistra
ton hostility Huerta favored by the
great practical convenience of having authority that
be held to account for injuries and oenses We wonder
whom Prof Ford Can it be villae OF is
rot Carranza have been unable hold him accountable
for the murder of troops by his at ParraIl
As the end issue of the presidents negotiations with
is vetan INST af