The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-09
THE REASON FOR IT
BY John Turner White

One with no knowledge Of Roose-
velts character might find Il diff
cult to account for his rabid hostilt-
ty to President Wilson. But know
ing him as the public generally know,
him makes it easy He hates Will
son and ali MS ways with q hearty
hatred. not because the Wilson ad-
ministration has been failure. bat
because it has been success 1t
was bad enough to succeed whore
Roosevelt predicted failure. hut sue
ceed whore r. r. himself failed. and
by methods which T. r. denounced.
was crime so heinous that no terms
in our language are quite strong
enough to chara cterize it,
Roosevelt's religion is, and always
has been, the doctorine OF achieve
ment. In many strenuous disserta-
tion he has visited his mighty scora
upon the ''doctorine." the mere
forger Of platitudes, in other words.
the mere thinker. The only man
worth while is the man who docs
things" And no man, such as JEFF
ferson for instance, who has formula
ted pol!cital theory, has ever done
anything. 1t is not theories but
deeds which count.
Now Woodrow Wilson went coun-
ter to that notion from the start.
The Congress elected with him had
been i'll session but a short time when
il became apparent that he had a
most extraordinary and uneHampled
influence over 1t. That q mollycod-
die could accomplish this, with ease,
by the mere force and correctness
OF his ideas. with no fiourishing OF
the big stick. and accomplish it more
"ffectually than all the Rooseveltian
buster ever did-that was lntoler-
able.
But Wilson did not stop here. He
put through q remarkable, construc-
tive program. The demand for tariff
reduction and for reform OF the bang
ing system was just as insistent dur
ing Roosevelt's administration as in
Wilson'S. Yet, Roosevelt the coura-
m"r. and Roosevelt. who does things,
mover even thought about attempt
ing the latter. And those were only
a part of the achievements OF the
1,,1ir ,;ctr
doctorine should thus accomplish
practical results, that milk-and-
water weakling should manifest the
highest couraS aSC-that Is unthinkable
to a Red Blooded person
Worst still, when the European
complications promised relief, when
it seemed almost inevitable that the
school-teacher would plunge the ma
tion into trouble and dishonor, Will
son maintained strong hold on com
mon sense and patriotism. He con-
tended consistently and continuous
ly for our rights under international
law. Germany resisted. hesitated,
and finally yielded every point. Aus
tria clustered and backed up. The
man who could not do things main
taincd every right and achieved every
desirable result. up-to-date, which
the most successful and most ex-
pensive war could have accomplished.
and did it without heroic posturinC.
OF course the Red Blooded could
not stand for so egregious a wrong.
was doing things in way that
hings could not he done. and ny a
person who could not do them, while
he only Person who really know how
nd could, had nothing to do with It.
When one reflects that the entire
course of history was so arranged.
md the evolution of civilization was
so designed as to furnish a setting
at this time for the exploitation Of
the greatest and glory OF Theodore
| Roosevelt, one can see how impos-
sible it is for real patriot to tolerate
meritorious achievement by any.
one else.--Harper's Weekly