The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15

ask is that business however large or
small. shall not be greater than the
law. " have freed business from the
b!ackmail of the politician, as we have /
eroancipated it from the clutch OF mo-
nopoly The law has been plainly
written for their guidance. Every
business and industry in the republic
understands perfectly well what the
law is and that the Democratic party
does not desire to hinder. Our pur-
pose is to help, not harass, business;
to build up and assist, not to destroy.
but instead to encourage in every way
possible the legitimate business OF the
country Democracy has given to tins
country government without graft, adj
ministration without favoritlsm. tax
alton without special privilege, expen-
ditures of the peoples money Withoue
dishonesty or scandal
Diplomatic Triumph.
Four years ago they sneenngiy
called woodrow Wilson the school
teacher; then his class was assembled
within the narrow walls OF princeton
college. They were the young men OF
America Today he is the world teach
err his class is made up OF kings,
kaisers, czars. princes and potentates-
The confines of the Schoolroom circle
the world. His subject is the pro-
lection of American life and American
rights under international law The
saving of neutral life, the freedom of
the seas, and without orphaning a sin
gle American child. without widowing
a single American mother, without
! firing a single gun, without the shed
ding of a single drop of blood, he
wrung from the most militant spirit
/ that ever brooded above q battlefield
an acknowledgment of American
! rights and an agreement to American
demands. He truly demonstrated that
principle is mightier than force, that
diplomacy hath its victories no less re-
] M
defeat tangle again the untanSled in
ternational problems-shall we say to
! the warning countries, open again
these settled international questions;
his was not the voice of his country ~
/ In the bloodiest crucible of all history
he has kept the stainless banner of
the Republic flying above 100, 100000
of people in peace and in honor. Dur
! ing these years of great trial. of diff
| culties, and complications crowding
upon each other like waves of an an
CRY sea, with enemies powerful from
without and critics and traducers from
! within, with abuse cruel as it was
cowardly, he emerges as majestic and
powerful as mountain after a storm,
loved by all who believe in Justice,
and feared by those who terporize
with wrong. He elevates himself to
that lofty put lonely eminence occu-
pied by George Washington, Abra ham
Lincoln, and Woodrow Wilson, the
Americans the Republic ever grew.
Neither Bullies the Weak Nor Fears
the Strong.
He neither DULLES the weak nor
fears the strong. He deals with the
military lord with his millions of sol
diers il the field demanding justice for
the American people, protection OF
American lives and American rights
as he does with the weak followers OF
a revolutionary torn Mexico. For the
honor of our flag, the preservation OF
our lives, the protection of our rights
he would challenge the world to con
flict; for political personal prefermen
or party advantage he would not in
flict the slightest wrong nor impose
T the smallest injury Mexico and Ger
) many, England and Austria look alik'
, to him when America is involved HI
might overlook the wrong of the weak
: but never the insult of the strong.
: What Do They Mean:
: The opponents of the Democratic
. | party declare that the foreign polio,
: OF President Wilson has been levi
and vacillating" What do they meal
! gone to war when Belgium. was in
: vaded, which we were not bound to d
by either contract or princi pie? Tina
: issue VIC are perfectly willing to sub
nit to the American people. Aroun'
: 20.000,000 happy firesides the father
of America will gather this night witt
their unbroken family circle with thei
children upon their knee and thei
wife by their side, happy and pros
t porous. Contrast this with the faith
ers, husbands and brothers of the oil,
: world dying in the bitches, with tn
r gloom and mourning in broken fam
t lily circles, where hunger crouches an,
disease treads- If THIS be '-evi1 an,
vacillating," God prosper it and teacl
/: 1t to the rulers of the old world.
! Peace.
He has struggled for peace. Hi
fondest hope, his most fervent praye
is for the peace, not only of his owl
. beloved country, but of all the world
When the last great day shall come
and before the court of God the ma
, tions of this earth shall march il
: judgment review, the monarchs o
the Old World shall have to anSwe
: for this awful carnage, this heartles
orphaning of millions of children, thi
) cruel widowing of millions of mothers
: this brutal turning of once happ.