French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-06-22

Louis last week:
I'VE who stand today On the fertile
soil Of America. who live under the
smiling skies Of a free and fruitful
land must prove worthy of the trust
that American sacrifice has imposed
on every American.
"Dlsregarding the divisions that
make n man a Tory and another a
WING, one man a RepubU can and an.
othef > Democrat. Americans will cast
aside the tinseI of party labels and
the mummery Of party emblems.
From the great pulsing heart Of the
nation VIII come a patriot command to
crush craftsmanship and rebuke what
ever is mean Or BIZ nd.
That command will be heard by the
pfoughman in his field, and by the Ia
oorer at his bench. 1t Will reach the
merchant in his Office and the lawyer
at MS desk. We would be false to
ourselves, and r~ecreant to those who
send us here if we permitted any
thought Of partisan profit, any cons d.
Grafton of political advantage t o OBJ
scure Our vision of the tremendous
issues now before the people of the
CoASSu OIoICS. VIZ I1uSG CdSC aside all
that is selfish, we must hold ourselves
worthy of a nations confidence by Of
ferlng only the bets Of our intelligence.
the Hover of u patriotism toward
the solution of what all men perceive
to be a crisis in the nations affairs.
For two years the world has been
ahre; the ciViliz&tOn that we know has
been torn by the mightiest struggle in
re history Snarlc from EY,r0noSc ~,
migration have blazed in our own
skies echoes of her strife have sound
ed at our very doors. That st IL burns
that struggle still continues, but thus
far the United States has held tn.
flame at bay; thus far it has saved it's
people from participation in the CON-
fict.
What the people of the United
States must determine through Their
suffrage. is whether the course the
country has pursued this crucial period
is to be continued: whether the prin-
ciples that have been asserted as our
national poi cy shall be endorsed or
withdrawn.
'"This is the paramount issue. Nc
lesser issue must cloud It. no unrelated
problems must confuse it"
THE first President OF the United
States was the first mar to pronounce
| neutrality q rule of international con-
duct.
in April, 1913. washington declar-
ed the doctrine; and within a month,
John Jay. chief j~usticeaof the Supreme
lcourt of the United States, in an epoch
making decision from the bench whose
realization would ensure universal
and perpetual peace. wrote the prin-
ciple into the law Of this land. The
Declara1 on Of independence had fore
told it by declaring the rest Of man
kind enemies in war. in peace friends;
the Constitution recognized it; but the
1.-The President of the United States
by proclamation the first chief justice
Ey Interpretation, gave it vitality and
power.
The President of the United States
stands today where stood the men who
made America and who saved Amer =
ca. He stands where John Adams
stood. when he told King George that
America was the land he loved and
that peace was her grandeur INT her
welfare. He stands where General
Grant stood when he said there never
was a war that could not have been
settled better some other way. n he
has shown his willingness to try the
ways of peace before he seeks the
paths of war. He stands where
George Washington stood when he
prayed that this country would never
unsheath the sword except in self-de-
Tense SO long as justice and our es"en-
tial Nights could be preserved with
out it.
For vain glory or for selfish pur.
pose others may cry up a policy OF
blood and iron, but the President OF
the United States has acted on the
belief that the leader Of a nation who
plunges his people into an unnecessary
war. like Point US plato. vainly washes
his hands of innocent blood while the
earth uuakes and the heavens are
Garkened and thousands give up the
ghost"
"By opposing what we stand for TO-
day, the Republican party opposes
what Hamilton stood for a century
ago. The founder of the Republican
party and the founder Of the Demo
cratic party, placing their country,s
happiness above every other consid-
Grafton, forgot craftsmanship and made
American neutrality a national creeo
We who follow Jefferson stand Whefe
Jefferson stood but we look in vail
for a sign from the present leaders
of the Republican party to show thai
they follow where Hamilton LED
Where Hamilton counseled moderat OF
they d%enounce it. Where Hamilton
thought only of country they thinl
only of self. Where Hamilton place.
patriotism above craftsmanship the!
place p~artisanshiD above PATRIOTISM
t How then do they dare to speak TO
the great body of Amer can citizen
who form the rank and file Of the he
y publican party? Do these leaders be
Iieve that their Republican1sm is a pei
ter Repub1icanism than Hamlltons
their A~mericanism a purer Amer can
Il is than that of