Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-01-14
FRIDAY, JANUARY ii, 1916.
4 SHOCKING ADMISSION,
BUT III SEEMS TRUE.

III - AA0 -
From Mondays New York world)
The following paragraphs are taken
from the leading editorial in Tues
days issue of the New York Sun:
rs It possible that there is any
American newspaper, or any Amer
lean citizen in public or private life,
low really hoping at the bottom of the
}eart that the controversy with the
,ntral powers about American rights
of travel on the high seas may reach
pass. or rather an impass, which
shall make the war inevitable
1T is almost inconceivable that such
should be the case; yet every time that
a distinct gain is made by our State
Department in its progress toward
satisfactory and honorable settlement
OF the whole business there are ex-
presisons her and there which give
color to the idea that the gain has
disappointment rather than Joy in the
regions subjacent to the clamoring
gullet."
II is shocking admission. but our
neighbor's question must be answered
in the affirmative. There are not only
American newspapers, but there are
many American citizens who hope in
their hearts that President Wilson will
fail in his efforts to reach an honor
able and amicable settlement of the
submarine controversy with Germany
and with Austria.
Among such citizens, the most con-
spicuous is Theodore Roosevelt, who.
in addition to his implacable hostility
10 the President wants war and is
ambitious to recruit a division of COW
boy horsemarines of which he is to be
the General in command. There are
others, however, whose sympathies
with Great Britain and France are so
passionate that they deplore every con-
cession from Berlin or Vienna which
diminishes the possibility of conflict
between the United States and the
Teutonic allies.
Then there are Republican polite
ians and newspapers that care little
what may happen to the United States
provided President Wilson can be dis
credited. They would regard war as
proof that his foreign policy has failed,
and, in their opinion. the failure of his
foreign policy would mean his defeat
at the polls. To them no price in
blood or treasure would be too great
to pay for his defeat. 1t is curious
and sinister revival of Copperheadism,
but II is a phenomenon of American
POLITICAL life which cannot be ignored.
The Copperheads of the Civil War
we're not animated so much by love of
the South as by blind hatred of Pres
ident Lincoln and the Black Republi-
cans. Many OF the chief Copperheads
of this period profess to be ardent
champions of Great Britain and France
but their love for the allies is small
in COMPARISON with their partisan
luminosity toward President Wilson.
To The Sun, as to The World, ii
seems inexplicable that all Americans.
regardless of party or personal ambi-
,,or sho,,Id not sfand SoIid1y behind
their Government in such a crisis and
uphold the hands of the President.
Nevertheless, we must remember that
there were Tories in the Revolution,
New England Federals IN the War of
1912 and Copperheads in the Civil War
and that we must always expect such
disloyalty in times of stress and pas
sion.
What is essential is that the great
heart of the American people should
be sound. 1t has always been sound
We think our neighbor will agree with
us that it is still sound. and that be-
cause 1t is sound the Republic is Sc
cure.
That peace party at least got itself
into its own trenches by Christmas.
What he world needs is an interna-
sional policeman with a capable trun-
sheon.