The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-08-22

responses and mere temporizing? Is
the issue at rest. has our position
been conceded as sound and just and
based upon universally accepted IDEAS
of international law? Or. on the other
hand, have we ourselves made rood
our threats because these concessions
have not been made?
That thus far we have not been
brought to actual war in our disputes
IL true, but there is not an American
with q single corpuscle of good red
blood dancing in his veins but that
knows that under any other cirnum
stances than those of the past eigh.
teen months we would have been hu
INFLATED beyond measure by the fruit.
less policy of protest upon protest
that President Wilson has pursued
and would feel that we had lost our
caste among the civilized peoples of
the earth because Of it
But is the fact that we have mean
while kept ont OF the war due to Pres
ident Wilson's policy or has It been
in spite of it? President Wilson may
have given the idea that the Amari.
can people are too proud to fight"
but peace upon such terms to the
world is merely a meek concession OF
shameless defeat without a strugpl>
Is it not the fact, rather, that we have
been kept out of the European war
not because of what President Wilson
has done to keep us out but because
none of the European powers wanted
us to come in?
Every pertinent lesson of history
tells us that If the European nations
to whom President Wilson has dis.
patched notes of protest over viola
tons of our rights had not been too
busy with more pressing affairs at
home they would have given far more
serious attention to his repeated def
ances. Even as 1t is, they do not ac-
knowledge or concede the justice o..
his protests, generally speaking, but
simply decline to accept his implied
dare to fight. because they have fight
! ing enough on hand already. This is
! not being kept out of war by Presi-
dent Wilson; it is being denied a
chance to get in.
But admitting that in such world
l crisis as now confronts us diplomatic
negotiations Of this character are es'
sentally delicate and national nerves
{ are sensitive and that there has been
{ all the time the possibility of our en-
broilment in the struggle what, then
J. can be claimed for President Wilson
@ as the preserver of the peace save
l. that by not deliberately waging va
4 or putting us by positive action into
;, unavoidable share in it he has sim
3. ply followed a plain sense of duty
It the sense any plain man might have
e had under the same circumstances?
e Not a rational adult citizen in al
a the United States has wanted thu
II country needlessly to become engage
II in the war. What credit can be Civ
Is en- President Wilson for keeping hi
s. country out Of ia mess that his countr!
!. men would not willingly have gon'
IS into II they could?
- Conditions That Might Have Been
IT Champions Of President Wilson OF
r. this war" slogan Want the people t
i. overlook the fact that before he coul'
n. have made effective war against an
Is country he would have been oblige
TO ask the Congress for its consen
rs and for the money and for troops
I'd And while such project was pendih
re the voice of a mighty nation agains
lie needless war would have made sue
I'd an uproar around the White House
n had never been heard by any Pres
~ dent before, and would have sad
W disturbed the blissful Nirvana O
" "watchful waiting"
IL II President Wilson hal been strut
e. Cling against adverse public sent
t. ment here at home, II the America
IT. people or a large and influential PAL
ar NJ them had been day and night tea
er ing him into the strife, II pressur
ID had been put upon him to get IN som
~ way, by hook or crook-n all 'h'
h were true, and he had bravery resis
n.VlN init