The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1916-10-20
PRESIDENT WILSON AS A GOOD
MAN WHO MAS KEPT Us OUT
Of WAR.

The present political campaign has
been remarkably free from muddaing or
even bitterness. The candidates 6er the
presidency are ~aen of high character
and ability. Even. Mr.. Roosevelt in his
emphatic and strenuous way has aot at
tempted to malign Mr.. Wilson as to
personal honesty of purpose.
All agree thattMr. Wilson is q .!good''
man, but sometimes strange aad rpara.
doxical or it may mean something less
A weak man may be good man" in
THIS sense and the very term may amply
weakness. That 1.-the president OF the
United States should not only be 4good'
man but, should be much more thaa that
is apparent.
Ssrlctly speaking therefore. while I'VE
admit that Mr. Wilson is in one sense a
very good" man. yet in another sense,
he is not good because he has not ',made
good?"
The next four years will undoubtedly
be crucial years r.this country. There
will be war problems, peace problems
trade problems, capital and labor prob.
lens and world: power problems of more
potentiality that have ever before con-
fronted US. They will have to be met.
We shall need strong administration
to deal with these questions. 1t will
take more than mere goodness to solve
them; it will take a man who has "made
good.'
We have not the space. time or pa.
thence to recall all of MI. Wilson's fail.
ures. His successes are SO few and un
important they are not worth recalling.
|>Oh, yes A:'he has kept us out of var. "
As to the European belligerents there
has never been,a moment when there
was any danger of war with us simply
because they have all had all they want.
ed to do at home. If either of them,
and particularly Germany, had wanted
WAR with the United States they could
have found plenty of excuses right in
President Wilson's notes. When Ger.
many let up on the submarine business
it was because Mr.. Wilson'S first notes
expressed the outraged sentiments of the
American people as we'll as those of other
neutral nations. On the other hand,
though two years have passed since the
torpedoing of the .Lusltania" yet moth
ing has been done about 1t and, Germany
still claims the right to sink passenger
ships without warning if she chooses so
to do. The opportunity for the fixing
of the statue OF submarine warfare vas
then with Mr.. Wilson, and to fix it for
all tine, but it still lies with Germany to
decide whether it will pay or not to sink
without warning. As the only world
power not at war, it was and lis up to
this country to lay down rules of inter-
national Law when new circumstances
arise which are not provided for by form
er laws. President Wilson failed in the
'.Lusitania" and other cases Immediately
following in which American lives we're
lost. in getting anything more than de.
lay from Germany.
While with the entente allies the is.
sues of diplomacy have not been SO ser.
ious. yet he has failed in almost every
case to get anything better than to keep
on "watchfully waiting" till the war is
over.
Nothing is more certain among the
belligeraut nations as the fact that ac-
cording to Wilson, I'VE are too proud to
6ght." When some innocent non COM
batants, citizens of the United States
are drowned and put adrift in open boats
scores of miles out to sea. when our mails
are robbed, when submarine blockades
New York harbor, and the President
protests. he is gently and kindly told
that be is too good man 70 get into a
fight, so he better 60 back and sit down
in the shade until the fight is overland
he does it.
In Mexico the American policy has