The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-05

lthey were so long led astray and turn
I ing TO do things for themselves,
"The difference between the Repub-
lican party and the Democratic party
is this; The Republican party offers
them masters: we offer them comrades
and leaders The Republican party Of
fers to take care of them: we offer to
SO into the fight shoulder to shoulder
with them TO get their rights
/ THE ranks are formed. The discip-
( line is self-discipline. No man needs
20 guide them In their voting. They
know what the issues are. and in their
minds eye they see those little lotteries
that used to govern the affairs of this
country and control the treasury of the
United States sitting in secret confer
ence, trying to determine how, in the
last days OF the campaign, when no
man viii have an opportunity to an
swer them, they may repeat the decep-
tons by which they have been con-
trolling the votes of American citizens,
For Justice and Equity.
We are trying to reconstruct Amer
along the lines OF Justice and equity.
which cut very much deeper than any
party lines. Democrats are not the
only persons VINO nave burning at thciF
hearts the desire to see things done.
There arc men without number in the
ranks Of the other party, even men
who are allowing themselves to be
miSled and deceived, who want these
things done. II was the duty OF those
who represented the Republican party.
as It was our duty IN this cam paign,
70 expound the real heart OF the social
necessities and the political exigencies
OF America
Hive they done that7 Have they
not merely said that though the right
things had been done. no doubt they
had been done by the wrong persons?
What difference does II make who did
them, whether they were good look
ing men or ugly men, whether they
were wise men or unwise, whether
they were schoolmasters or sages
If they were done and were the right
things to do, then every man ought to
stand by and praise them.
All that we have heard from our
opponents has been that they believed
In themselves. That is not what We
wanted to know. DO they believe in
as aisoP DO they believe in America
also? DO they believe that America
by showing In her own politics that
She means what she says about her
self can be counted upon to mean
what she saws about the world when
the war Is over
Playing With Fire.
1T amazea me that men calling
themselves statesmen should discuss
some Of the things our opponents
have been dwelling upon. when the
ttnoie atmosphere Of the world was
.E6lea with this blaze of threatened
trJ4lis, men spreading finder In this
country when sparks without number
were blowing from this terrible con-
faRration, men making party sport
pi unsettled questions, not settled
ones, Of present course OF action. not
past courses OF action. seeking to
make party capital out of things which
IT not settled wisely might bring this
country at any moment into this
world conflict which 10 devastating
Europe.
is it not amazing my fellow citi-
zens TO witness such effort for party
advantage. and does 1t not point for
us this moral that We are now In the
presence OF things which ought to
make parties almost n matter of In
difference to us. which ought to make
+ things fundamental tthe only things
we care anything about); which ought
10 make the just foundations OF peace
tho things that we are seeking for
of peace; not searching for the de-
tail but searching for the heart-pur-
pose that is in the whole thing.
The world viii never be again
what II has been The United States
will never again he what it has been.
The United States was once IN en-
ioynen Of what we used to call
splendid isolation The 5000 Males OF
The Atlantic seemed to hold All Eu-
n O irs a la OFT
us. The great spaces of the Pacific
seemed to disclose no threat OF In
fluencc upon our politics.
Foreign Influences Reach Us.
Now from across tho Atlantic and
from across the Pacific we feel to the
quick the Influences which are affect
ing ourselves, and In the advantage
whereas We used to he always In
search of assistance and stimulation
from out of other countries always In
search of the capital OF other coun-
tries to assist our Investments, depend
ing upon foreign markets for the sale
Of our securities. We now have
bought In more than 80 per cent OF
those securities; We have become. not
the debtors, but the creditors. of the
world and the part that other ma
Hons used To play IN promoting indus
tries whic hextended as wide as the
world itself. we are playing the suid-
ing part,
We can determine TO a large extent
who is to he financed ana who is not
10 be financed That is the reason
say that me United States VIII never
be again what 1t has been So It does
not suffice to look as some gentlemen
are looking, back over their shoulders,
10 suggest that we do again what we
did when VIC were provincial and iso-
lated and unconnected with the great
forces OF the world, for now we are
in the great drift of humanity which
il to determine the politics OF every
country in the world
With this outlook Is II worth while
10 stop to think OF party advantage?
Is IL worth stopping to think OF how
we have voted In the past? We are
now going TO vote, II we b men with
eyes open that can SOC no world -
hose who wish to make a now America
IN q new world
MY fellow -c;tizenA II II an un-
precedented thing IN the world that
any nation in determining ita foreign
relations should be unselhsh. and my
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