Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-10-17
.0nce Challenged, He Says Ma
ton Will Shed Its Blood for
Principles 1t Has Always Fol-
lowed and Believed
CBy Associated PreAs.)

LONG BRANCH. N. j.. Oct. 19.-In a
speech before a large delegation Of
Pennsylvania Democrats who came here
with bands playing and banners flying,
President Wilson declared today that
while he is for peace. America is al
ways ready TO fight for things that are
American" He summed his idea of the
issues OF the present campaign in these
words:
America knows that it is faced with
this choice: Peace, the continuance of
the development or business along the
lines which il has now established and
developed and the maintenance of well
known progressive line sot action, on
the one hand; or, on the other, a dis
turbance of policy all along the line.
new conditions, new adjustments, unde-
nned alterations of policy. and back of
Il all invisible government"
The president discussed what he de-
clared was the attitude toward war and
peace of different elements of the Re-
publican party.
NOTHING DONE RIGHT.
81 understand from the leaders Of the
Republican party that nothing has been
done right" he said. They do not say
that the thing done was always wrcng.
but the way in which il was done was
always wrong. They do not venture TO
say, that is. the private counsel does
not venture % say, that we wanted any
thing but peace. but they would have
preferred some other way, not disclosed,
OF obtaining peace. The vocal part says
we wanted war The silent part init
mates that we wanted peace, but wanted
another kind OF peace.
They can never get over that funda-
I elN
America is in charge of somebody else
| than themselves. But America knows
that the things that were done did OBJ
tain peace, and il does not know that
the things that might have been done
would have obtained peace"
Mr.. Wilson reiterated previous declar-
| atoms that IL is almost impossible to do
anything in the field of foreign affairs,
because foreign nations have been led
to believe that a dominant element in
the Republican party is in favor of
drawing the United States into the Eu-
ropean war and they have been told
with abundant evidence, that IL is prob
able that If the Republicans succeed,
we shall enter upon a policy of exploita-
ton of our neighbors in Mexico"
Continuing his discussion Of the ma
tons foreign affairs Mr.. Wilson declar-
ed that although the leaders of the Re-
publican party demand that the rights
of Americans be protected everywhere,
on one occasion the Republican ma
chine was able to compel a majority OF
its members in the house of representa-
tives to vote that American citizens
had no right to travel on the high
seas" He added:
LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
"If their leaders believe in the rights
of American citizens, why don't their
followers? II their leaders are so stiff
to see that Americans get their rights
everywhere, why do these men vote that
Americans shall get their rights no
where? One of the most regrettable m
cidents Of American history is that
there should have been found men in the
congress OF the United States willing to
vote in that sense"
. Mr.. Wilson reiterated his advocacy
Of a league of nations to preserve the
peace Of the world and attacked the
leaders of the Progressive party, who,
he said, had betrayed the rank and file.
He also declared that the selection
OF a congress is just as important as
the election of a president. because the
real source Of action and the real ma
chinery Of obstruction is in congress"
He asserted that the forces of reac-