Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-01

worlds esteem, and insuring the
prevalence of honorable peace with
out international neighbors.
Our opponents pride themselves
upon the assumed fact that their can
didate for the presidency has kept
the country out of war. Their as
sertion is too broad it comprchends
more than the truth. We have not
been kept out of war, for there has
been real war in Mexico, due to our
own aggression. 1t does not rebound
to our credit That It was not greater
is due to the fact that Mexico is not
greater. There has been no desire
upon the part of any power beyond
the seas, either in Europe or in the
Orient, to go to war with US.
1T is not a very difficult task for
any president to keep out of war il
nobody wants to fight us, and when
our people thoroughly believe that an
enlightened, firm diplomatic policy
will meet successfully all of our inter-
national necessities.
Dealing with Mexico.
1--WE regard the dealings Of the
president with Mexico as vacillating
He has been given free hand and
had no one to blame for what he had
done or failed to do himself, have
tried, so far as my influence would
60, to uphold ms hands, regardless OF
whether we agreed among ourselves
as to the soundness of his policy. In
foreign affairs we have always been
loyal to our constitutional leader
Our patience has been put to the test
in Mexico. We have sharply disa-
greed with the president, but have
stood by him nevertheless. We have
seen things 60 from bad to worse;
we have seen the butchery OF our
countrymen upon both sides of the
border; we have seen millions OF dol
lars worth of property destroyed. but
we have steadfastly supported him,
and shall continue to do so until the
close of the chapter OF his power. A
settlement day is now at hand, not
between the president and Mexico,
but between the president and the
electors of the United States. Our
patience is exhausted and we believe
our national interest requires new
deal.
Problem Of the Future.
THE terrible struggle will tend to
intensity, rather than moderate. the
spirit OF nationalism throughout the
world, and in the future, as never be-
fore, it will be necessary for US to
maintain standard of Americanism,
free from division by sectionalism;
class prejudice or alien sympathy.
There never was time when it was
more important for us, as Americans,
to avoid creating lines of cleavage in
this country based upon place Of birth
or occupational status. We cannot
properly censure Americans of for
eign birth for sympathy with the ma
tons which once claimed their, allie
glance, as against the nations with
which they are fighting, and the at
tempt to impute reasonable motives
to any one class of our citizens be-
cause Of their original nationality, or
the sympathies which go with it. so
long as these do not interfere with
their paramount loyalty to this re-
public or. in. any way infringe it, is
severely. & to be condemned. The
greatest menace in this country is not
so much the man who loves two
countries as the man who loves no
country at all. u 5t'
Preparedness. s ~t
I'VE stand for preparedness meas
urcd by our national nceds--a strong
army and navy adequate to compel
respect for our diplomacy and to in
sure peace. Hand in hand with our
physical preparedness there must go
Industrial preparedness, which shall
insure prosperity for the millions who
labor and who in the final analysis
are the real source OF our NATIONAL
strength.
in conclusion, my friends, ] wish
to say that il is a very great pleasure
to me tolbe associated in this contest
with Charles :, Evans Hughes, our
leader. He has in the fullest degree
exemplified in his life and public serv-
ices the best aims and highest pur-
poses of the American people. His
election will be antassurancc that vie
shall go forward n the enjoyment of
new era of homer and prestige
abroad and prosperity and content
ment at home. We rejoice that the
light of better day u breaking"