Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-04
"AiLAST MESA GE"- THE OUTLOOK'S
ADVICE TO MERICAN VOTERS

france and ltaly-are fighting in or
Ger that government of the people, by
the people and for the people shall not
perish from the earth. Is there any
reason why we should sincerely wish
ana fervently pray that they may Sc
cure for their countries those liberties
winch we fondly hope we have secured
for ourselves?
To these questions President Wilson
ana his administration have replied,
emphatically, No" Mr.. Wilson has
refused to give protection to American
citizens in Mexico. and officially ad-
vlsed them to flee, leaving their hom es
to be ravaged, their property de-
stfoyed and their loyal employees mas
sacred. He has furnished no protec-
ton to travellers on the ocean. He
mas advised all American citizens.
TO be neutral in sympathy as we'll as
In act and thus has counseled the
foreign-born to be Indifferent to the
liberties and the lives of the families
and friends whom they have left in
the Old World He has refused to
make any protest against the tlagrant
preach of treaty, to which America
was party, any protest against the
flagrant violation of international law
by war waged against noncombatants,
and declined or failed to take any ac-
ton in response to the delegation of
Belgians who presented report of
these warlike barbarities. And he has
declared once and again that America
mas no concern with the causes and
objects of this war, no interest to as
certain what they are. When, q few
days ago, an American naval vessel
stood by while American men and
women were lowered into small boats
Just beyond the neutral waters of
America and the passenger ship on
which they had been travelling was
sent to the bottom by a German sub
marine, this American naval vessel
furnished an object lesson of the spirit
which the present administration de-
sires to see exemplified by the Ameri-
can people. Alike by official decla-
rations and by public acts 1t frankly
avows the desire that we should main
tain an attitude of Indifference, care
ful only to protect our own present
safety and seek out of a world calamity
some increase of our future CONNER
cia' prosperity.
We wish to see America inspired by
very different spirit and resolved
upon very different policy. We be-
lieve in the America which under
Monroe notified the Holy Alliance OF
Europe that any attempt to interfere
with free institutions on the Western
Continent would be regarded as an un-
! friendly act. We believe in the Amer
lea which in 1912 attacked England
mistress of the seas, for the purpose OF
winning the right of Americans to
travel unhindered and unafraid upon
tho worlds highway. We believe in
the America which. as soon as that
war was ended. fought the Algerian
pirates and forever took the Medi-
terranean out of the war zone We
! believe in the America which highly
resolved that popular government
should not perish from the earth and
counted no sacrifice too great to Sc
cure for all peoples under it's flag the
unalienable rights affirmed in the Dec
laration of Independence. We believe
in the America which could not endure
TO see a sixteenth century despotism
pressing a nineteenth century people
and fought the Spanish War to set it's