Middletown transcript., 1916-01-01
wOBBLINC WILSON

president Wilson is nothing If not
/ wobbler His so-called states
manship has always, Janus-Ake, faced
two ways. To try to follow the WIND
inc mazes of his policies at home or
abroad is utterly bewildering. Try 10
form a consistent pattern out of his
public acts and you will appreciate the
truth of this assertion.
After protesting n the stump ana III
his party's platform, against the repeal
OF the Panama Ship Bill, he dragons
feeble Democratic Congress into stultl-
flying the party, itself and him by max
mo such repeal After promising the
country free sugar in 1916, he concludes
to retain the duty thereon. After re-
fusing to recognize Huerta as President
of Mexico, who had at least de facto
title, enough for the leading nations OF
Europe, he recognizes Carranza who
had no title of any sort-recognizes him
too, after absurdly threatening half
dozen times tnat if he, Carranza, did
not submit himself to the Pan American
Congress he Wilson would force him
- - -, :, 49,, = o,,o boVoro ood rocoCniZp
his pet, the bandit Villa. whom now
with characteristic fickleness he is help
ing Carranza to defeat.
The other day Mr.. Wilson in speech
at Columbus Ohio said:
''The Mexicans may not know
what to do with their government
but that is none of our business, and
so long as l have the power to pre-
vent it nobody shall butt in to alter
1t for them"
-'None OF our business ,and yet it was
his senseless Quitting in'' that drove
Huerta from the presidency of Mexico,
and as a consequence plunged that
country into three more years of anar-
chy with the destruction of many mil
lions of its own and foreign property be-
sides the murder of hundreds of Ameri- |
cans! Nobody shall butt in yet this |
amazing statesman in the White House
did butt in most disastrously when he |
sent the navy on wild goose chase to
Vera Cruz, blunder that slew 80 Of |
our brave sailor lads and some 300
Mexfcans. Then that navy ingloriously
turned tail and sailed away home again
after having at the dictates of this ab-
surd president gone thither for nothing
and retired for the same reason!
Three years ago this astute presiden-
tial weathercock declared that larger
navy and bigger army was purely
an academic question" and he accord
ingly prevented even the usual small
yearly increase in our navy-a suicidal
doctrine of non-defence with which this
Democratic Congress heartily agreed
Now, that same Wilson is clamoring
for more navy and more army and that,
toos right off!
His short-sighted policy has wasted
three valuable years wherein our de-
fenceless country might have been
greatly strengthened both on land and
on sea. This folly, because he believed
IN ''peace at any price,, believed SO
man might be too proud to defend
himself etc, as he said in that foolish
Philadelphia speech. But now that the
country has angrily repudiated his folly
of an unprotected America, aid Con-
gress, thank God, is in session in part at
least to thwart his follies, Mr.. peace
at-any-price" Wilson is rampant for
military preparation-for big Army
and Navy!
One more sample of Mr.. Wilson's as
tonishing habit of blowing hot and cold
on the same subject. Nearly eight
months ago Germany officially an
nounced its inhuman purpose to destroy
that great passenger ship, the Lusitania
If she dared to sail for England. Nobody
believed any civilized nation capable of
such an act of sheer savagery not even :
the brutal Germany that had so cruelty
neutral Belgium and deliber-
ately battered down the beautiful Cathe-
drals of France.
But Germany through her under-sea ;,
assassins made good her barbarous
threat, and without warning sank the
Lusitania whereby 1150 men, women
and children-including 40 babes in their
arms-lawfully travelling upon
he ocean, were massacred, among the
,ictims being lis Americans. \
Thereupon Mr.. Wilson began scrib- II
ling an endless series of silly paper G