Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-23

about President Wilson during his ad-
ministration than his self-crtticism
and mis- frank confession of soma
change of opinion during his admins
tration, A champion golfer does not
make every stroke. Finding the
range is not 'vacilaton'
"The democratic party in Cleve.
lands time gave to the country a new
navy The democratic party in Presi
dent Wilson's administration has
voted to make that navy the second
In the world. A democrat is not nee
essarily pacifist, nor a republican
for preparedness In the first win
ter of the war the president was bonn
barded with memorials from repub-
leans not to increase our army and
navy. | was at an important meeting
in New York, presided over and con-
trolled by republicans, which had this
as its object.
For The United States to develop
military power sufficient for defense
is not mlitarism, but foresight. Every
sensible American wants proper mills
tary and naval protection for this re-
public and its 100 millions Of people
The first duty Of a government Is self
protection.
Roosevelt accuses Wilson of not
being an 'idealist.' The colonel's pic
ture of an idealist is that of an Amerl-
can citizen in khaki, taking potshots
at MeNicans, This reminds me Of the
remark Of a wall street banker, al
charming and excellent man, who
complained to me that the fault heI
found with workmgmen was their
'materialism This was his name for
their desire for increased wages.
IdcaIizc Mexican War
Ideals, duties, AmericAnism'-I
these distractions are the airy themes
of republican orators Their ideal is |
Uncle Sam at war with Mexico. Their /
sense of duty is Uncle Sam at war
with Germany Their 'Americanism'
is Uncle Sam, with fist doubled up, |
coat tails flying, challenging the !
world or denouncing the eight-hour
law.
MI. Hughes is admirable and ex-
emplary, but ld-fashioned. The nine /
teenth century was a great age and
some men have never gotten over it. |
Mr. Hughes would have made an ac-
ccptable president twenty years ago.
'He would have felt more at home |
with Hayes and Harrison than with !
Roosevelt or Wilson. The twentieth /
century is a new age. We must learn !
its lessons quickly. President Wilson
knows them ana can teach them.
The best you could expect from
Mr.. Hughes, a supreme court Judge, is /
what you got from Mr.. Taft, whose |
ambition was to be judicial. lie could /
always conceal GOODNESS or cowardness |
or ignorance under an appeal to
legal discussion of a subject
rrogrcssivism Thrust on Roosevelt. !
Il voted for Roosevelt in 1912, !
largely because he promised a con-
siderable body of social reform. This
program he had taken largely from a
group Of men now working for Will
son. The lesson so learned could not
have been native or eongenial to /
to Roosevelt. Had 1t been he would /
not have returned to the Root-Pen- /.
rose Barnes political machine. In
short, it looks to me as if Mr.. Roose- /
welt did not achieve progressiyism but
had it thrust upon him.
"The indignation of the republican
party at the democratic party is not
due 10 its failure but to its success.
The governing class Gas the republican
party has considered itself to be)
cannot forgive the popular party for
showing its capacity for government
Their idea of property as bestowing
capacity for government, carried with
it a sneer that a lack of financial sue
cess is just another name for lack of
brains. Capitalistic conceit is tremen-
dously upset by the success of the non
capitalistic groups at the highest Of
craftsmanship