West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15

pertinent questions. He writes:
have just read with very great
deal OF interest letter from Or. Al
bert S. Bolles. OF Haverfort. printed
i'm the Sunday edition of one OF your
contemporaries, which hays Mr.
Roosevelt and nails his hide up on the
barn door. neatly tanned.
1 have observed with great delight
the rapier-play of words in the learn
ed Doctors letter; and it's keen logic,
its legal exactness OF phrase are. as
In all DR.. Bolles' writings, an intelli-
gent stimulus. Also, l am always an
interested and delighted spectator
whenever any member of the Old
Guard gets out his skinnin' knife TO
operate on Mr.. Roosevelt, and always
pray for more strength in the skin
ner's elbow
go But among the lucid phrases which
characterize the Doctors letter, / find
one expression, which for reasons
hereinafter set forth, am going to
ask the doctor to elaborate upon, to
explain-to give us a bill OF particu-
lars.
In one place tlfe doctor says: THE
Republicans doubtless will nominate a
candidate possessing the needful abil-
ity to bring order out of the present
chaos and humiliation" Again, he
says, "He (Hughes) would speedily re-
store the country from its chaotic, hu-
inflated condition"
Now chaotic humiliation" is a fine,
large mouthful of sound worthy of
Roosevelt himself Humiliation" is
bad enough, but chaotic humiliation"
Z must be something awful. But, doc
tor, what does it mean? Won't you
point out to us just where is the
chaos" just what the Humiliation"
am not asking this information for
my own benefit doctor. l have an
idea that 1 know about what your
elaboration of the phrase would be. l
have not lived as long as you, but
have lived long enough to observe in
many many cases the depths Of un-
reason into which extreme partisan
ship can plunge and otherwise logical
mind. But have son, doctor, who
is recent graduate of Haverford col
lego, and who, in common with all
Haverfordians, looks up TO you with
the greatest admiration and respect,
and it is for his benefit and for the
benefit OF million other boys who
intend to cast their first Presidential
ballot for Woodrow Wilson that am
asking you to explain. For their con
victions (dare ! say their prejudices? p
are not so firmly fixed as yours and
mine, doctor, and IL you can show
them that Woodrow Wilson has plung-
cd this nation into "chaos and humilia-
tion," it is up to you to do it,
My son was one of four young men
sent over through the fundamentally
Of Or. Rufus Jones of Haverford. to
aid the English Friends in their relief
work in France and Belgium. For
nearly year he has been doing Red
Cross work in the war zone He has
fed starving babies orphaned of their
fathers before their birth; he has wit
messed the dumb despair of widowed
women he has seen mangled men
crawling like reptiles on the ground /;
he has heard the groans Of men
scorched with the very fires OF hell,
choked With suffocating gases-the
.-~juvention Of modern devils; and he
thought that was chaos" He has
seen the fair fields of France and
Flanders gashed and ruined and blast
ed and burned into semblance OF
Dantcs inferno; he has stood I'm an
cient cathedrals and felt the cold wind
blow through desolated arches while
the rain made mud -puddles OF price
less frescoes or the ruined floor; he
has seen villages, town. cities bomb
cd and battered until OF all the clus-
tered homes not one roof remained
not one fire burned upon the hearth
and he thought that was chaos" Tic
has seen bombs dropped from thc
clouds upon defenseless sleeping cit.
ies: he has seen bubbles upon the
ocean blown by the lips Of drowning
babies victims Of man-spawned rep.
tiles Of the deep, and he thought thai
was "chaos."
And he saw the Prussian eagle. sui
len I'm his trench-cago. look out with
baleful eyes upon Paris, her prey de-
MED. be saw the British lion SLIM
home beaten from the Dardanelles
and he thought that was 'bumilia
ton" lie witnessed the defeat OF Tn,
German diplomats in italy and tn,
failure of British statecraft in the Bal
kans. he saw everywhere the impo
tency Of boasted European diplomac,
and the utter inability of the traine,
chancelleries Of Europe to prevent
world catastrophe; and he though
that was humiliation" And he saw
the proud fiohonzollern, beaten am
ha1led BY deapised American dlplo
- eaoy. brought to HIS knees by the an
ger Of a patient man; and ne saw II
that humiliation" but not for Amer
ica
Ton days ago my son set foot ono
more upon his native land, and peace