The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-16


States.
There stands the astounding ph'
nomenon of American prosperity
What is its explanation? The Ell
cid of financial theory worked to
demonstration, measures for tn
country's relief. He promptly pu
into effect the legislative expression
Of great program. He did not talk
He did things. He dynamited tn
monetary dams and let credit flov
to the remotest corners of the land
its spray dashing even upon foreigI
shores. He released the nations
resources and set the energies of al
men free to exploit them. He de
stroyed commercial slavery. Ht
struck off its shackles. The pros
perity OF the nation is the product
of craftsmanship and financial gen
ius. American credit is now limited
only by it's own honesty and ca
pacity. The cause being undisturb
ed the effects must remain. The
schoolmaster is statesman, the states.
man is financier, the financier is
emancipator. With Lincoln, the
emancipator of the chattel slave, he
will live forever as the emancipator
of the commercial slave.
The nation is at peace in a world
at war. America is confronted with
appalling realities. 1t is not the
part of wisdom to play with phan-
toms, deal in riddles, or seek to enter
tain the national imagination with
the legerdemain of language. To
build words mountain high as the
throne of vanity and ambition should
not be an American pastime. An at
tempt to catch the presidency by
phrases is the work of folly. The
function of a sounding brass and
tinkling cymbal is not germane to
the tragic conditions of the world.
When the fate of millions is at stake,
it is not the part of any man to stack
the cards. With civilization in peril,
the sphinx becomes an anachronism.
The anachronism will remain the
silence of the age. The
safety of the nation will not permit
the supreme court of the United
States to become a political supply
house. With the whole world tense
and anxious, patriotic advice and
are of more value than
abuse and defamation. Speculation
willis in the blaze of truth. Abusive
shrivels before the re-
lentless fact. Honesty is the COM
quality of free and pa
triotic American.
What are the realities that face
US? In Mexico exist the potentiali-
lies of civilization. In her wealth,
her history, her schools, her reli-
gion, her needs, her very suffering
and patriotism lie the indestructible
seeds of progress. To have con-
luered Mexico would have seated
leath at the American fireside. 1t
would have destroyed our prosperity
md added hundreds of millions of
aXation to the burdens of the nation.
t would have planted distrust and
hatred of the United States in ev-
,ry South American republic. 1t
would have prostituted the bravery |
nd patriotism of American arms to
he greed and avarice of concession
lries. 1t would have robbed the
United States of the grandeur of
er mission amongst the nations of
he earth. 1t would have made
night right and repudated the doc
rines of Christianity. 1t would have
gnored the fundamental conceptions
f moral progress and denied the
light of fifteen millions of people to
overn themselves. Ambition and
reed were prepared to sacrifice Am
rica and all that America stands
)r, in order to acquire the wealth
f Mexico. The diplomacy of watch
IL waiting" averted these calami-
es and preserved in their original
urity the principles of American
'eedom and Justice. 'Watchful wait
lg repudiated the brutal dictum of
,ience that the weak must go down
efore the strong. Help Mexico lest,
yer her bloody grave are sown the
teeth of our own destruc-
on.
War with an European nation
ould have set the world aflame and
opped the march of progress for
,ntury. Would anyone have had it
, in order to affirm "virile Ameri-
lnism"? Is a "virile Americanism'
oodshed, destruction, the horrors
war and its uncertainties? The {
distance of civilization is the arts. ,
lie sciences, literature, philosophy, I
dustry, the domestic virtues. free. ,