The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-09-29

istration Of our time.
We have all heard him announce
himself as President of all the
people. and have seen him, as the
most partisan president Of his
generation, flout and oppose the
progressives, whom now because
he needs them, he seeks to con-
ciliate and enlist.
Worst Of all is this. When
every principle Of freedom and
equality for which our fathers
fought was at stake in the great
war, when our whole country
eagerly awaited tie leadership of
the President, Wilson lodged. He
refused to take sides in the gratest
moral issue of our time. He advis-
ed our people to be neutral even in
thought undecided between right
and wrong. While our friends
abroad were fighting for the
eprinciples we held equally with
them, he taught US that profits and
ease were better than self respect.
President Wilson has done our
Nation the most serious injury that
any leader can do to any people by
making Us finch with him from a
great moral decision. Therby he
weakened our hold as nation
on the principles which alone can
make any people self-respecting
safe and strong.
Having led us wrong on the
ground that we must be neutral in
the face of the deliberate breaking
Of the worlds peace, he has just
reverced himself again. and in his
speech at Shadow Lawn now assures
US that mo nation can any longer
remain neutral as against any will
ful disturbance of the peace OF the
world.
1T is bad enough that Wilson s
foreign policy has left US, as the
war draws towards its end, with
out a friend amongi the great
nations of the world, and without
the respect Of any one of them.
What is worse is that he has kept
US from standing up for what we
know is right.
The ignoble standard Of profit
over principle which Mr.. Wilson
forced upon the country in our
foreign relations, he has applied to
himself as President. In what he
has said done and left to announce,
!, the records shows him steadily
dominated by political expediency.
These facts and many others
like them, have forced me to see
that what Mr.. Wilson says is nc
sign Of wrat he has done. or what
he will do. The one thing his
record shows is that what he stands
for now he IS not likely to stand
for later. | do not care what his
platform or his campaign declara
tions may be, because the common
experience Of Us all has taught
us that to him tn, y are simply
!, 'molasses to catch flies.
Hughes, on the other hand, is
man of his word. His record
as Governor of New York proves
that. 1t shows hi.n to be honest,
fearless, and free from the domina-
tion Of special interests and
corrupt politicians. So far as the
conservation policies are concerned
both what he said and what he did
could hardly have been better.
am confident that under him these
policies will be safe. He is a
strong man who will dodge nc
moral issues, and he will give US
an honest and efficient administra-
tion.
As a progressive. | believe in
Nationalism. So does Hughes.
am certain that under Hughes the
progressive policies will fare better
than under Wilson, and that the
sare,, honor and welfare of the
country will be in immeas..rably
safer hands. l can not vote for
Wilson because can not trust him.
u does not do what he says.
u,,ahos IT, does. Therefore my choice
] = Hnaha. md shall work and
vote for him.
ve-y tlnly yours.
CLIFFORD Pi.NlCHOT