El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-05-25

day we have the Apostles OF Criti-
cism bowling their heads Off because
war is not declared Immediately
against something or somebody, and
at the same time heaping blame upon
our Democratic ADMINISTRATION be.
cause 1t hasn't raised an army and
built a navy In three years which the
Republican party failed to accomp-
president does not want war and he
will do everything that a great ma.
tion ought to do 10 avoid it, he wants
us to be prepared, II the necessity
comes, to protect our country and de-
fend our rights wherever attacked or
called in question. He wants the
world to know that we know our
rights and are able and determined
to protect and defend them. and be Is
for preparedness for peace and pre-
~paredness for war, If necessary to de-
fend our honor. And for the first
time in our history, except in the
Civil War, provision has been or is
being made for an adequate navy for
the defense of our homes, our ideals,
and our honor from attack by a for
eign foe,
Good Roads
There has already been passed in
the senate a bill appropriating sew
enty-five million dollars out OF the
treasury to help in the construction
OF good roads, which will undoubtedly
become a law before congress adj
%journs.
Congress is now considering and
will soon pass what is known as the
farm land bank bill. or what is some
times called the rural credits bill,
fashioned somewhat after the Fed
eral Reserve Banking system, to re-
lieve the farmers and get them long
time credit. Under this measure the
farmer will be enabled to borrow
money for the purchase of land and
the making Of permanent improve
ments on 1t on terms which will give
him thirty-six years to pay the prin-
ciple and interest and at a rate of
interest not over six PEI cent per
annum including the cost Of obtaining
the loan.
640-Acre Law
There is now pending in the con
gress a bill which authorizes settlers
to acquire title to public land to the
extent of. $40 acres as a homestead.
This will soon become a law because
it has the support Of the Democratic
administration.
/ could continue for hours recount
ing the achievements of this admin
istratiOn and telling of the work 1t
has done for the upbuilding of the
country, but limitation OF time COM
pels me 10 refer to only one more.
the mightiest OF all of the achieve
ments OF this administration.
As a ~Peacemaker
Amid the flame and rage of a war
which has ensanguined three-fourths
of the world, Woodrow Wilson has
maintained the honor and the integ-
rity of this nation and has accomp-
lished the almost impossible task of
keeping it from being sucked into
the unholy maelstrom which Is red
with the blood Of the peoples of Eur
ope, Asia, Africa, Oceania and of our
northern neighbor, the Dominion of
Canada.
With six great nations and almost
as many more minor powers striving
with every ounce of savage energy
they can command for victory or self
preservation, it has been but natural
that the rights Of neutral nations
should be ~disregarded by the belli-
gerents just as far as those neutrals
would permit without resort to arms.
Upon the United States, the greatest
OF all the nations not at another's
throat, was the duty of preserving
sanity and the rule of law, instead
of the rule of force, for those peo-
pies who were at peace.
To the discharge of that duty, our
president set himself with an inflexl
BILE will, clear judgment, invincible
patriotism, and a full realization of
the obligations Of this nation to hui
mainly, now and in the ages to come.
He made it plain that if it had to be
war, this nation would fight as our
fathers fought for the establishment
of this great, free government; as
the men of sixty-one to sixty-five
fought for the establishment of con-
government, as we fought
for the liberation of Cuba from a
m%onarchial despotism and without
thought of gain for ourselves.
But President Wilson presented
the demands Of this government so
logically, so clearly, so fairly, and so
firmly that all of our demands were
granted without the shedding of one |
drop Of blood. Three times the at
mosphere of the whole nation has
been electric with the storm of war,
and the splendid diplomacy of the
president cleared the atmosphere and
the storm never broke.
Three times within less than two {
years a mis-step, a wrong word,
would have ended the wonderful pros ]
perity which prevails from ocean to
ocean, would have destroyed the I
peace which now rests upon every
homestead and brought the pallor Of |
fear to the cheek Of the wives and {
mothers. Where men are now march I
ng gladly to labor in the factory and ]
he field for the greatest rewards {
which have ever come to human in {
iustries, we would hear the tramp of I
he drilling soldiers taken from the 1
ields of production for service in !
he bloody fields of destruction. And /
10 right has been sacrificed in the J
preservation of peace. ]
The Mexican Situation !
Nearer to us we have had four
of anarchy in Mexico and that
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