Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-31
The Best Brains 10 the World


Our down river contemporary discov--
eBB that q tariff IL necessary 70 onset Ihe
EXPENDITURES made by American Iourss
in Europe when Europe IL In condition 70
make ID possible for Americana TO go on
sightseeing expeditions there: In nos 1a
eign lands. Therefore we must nave a
Payne-A ldrich tariff in order that ina-
ports shall pay the millions back again
in the form OF duties.
consumer, being a person OF average com
mon sense. 10 pretty likely 10 see thronSn
this sort Of argument and u ne ooes tiIe
incident il not going 70 conysn mn. .ar.T
the idea that old time Methods OF taTfn
LEGISLATION are d blessips in disguise. IN
cidentalIy. the attention OF our nowh
RIVER contemporary liz csileo 10 tHe "a
miiiar aiiusiong TO those VINO try 10 raise
Themselves by their own noot' Sttaps.-
Watsrvjiie Eentnel p.
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And the President himself, at New
York, Thursday, said:
"Ayner1ca has been reluctant TO match
her wits with the rest III the Wofio
When face body Of men Hke this 1t 70
ainnost incredible to remember tnat Gniy
Yesterday they were afraid TO pnt their
wits into free competition with the word.
The best brains in the word Airald ~
match brains with the rest ~ the wcrIc
have preferred TO stand behind protecting
devices. And now, we are thrust oIt 10
do, On scale never dreamed OF IN re-
cent generations in America, the business
Of the world. =
The political philosopher Of the Wa
teryille sanctum and the threadpare
theorist OF the one-track mind are on a
uar in the weight Of their free trade
arguments But the latter frankly ad-
rnitg that his theories have not worked
out and he thinks it is because the
whole world Is changing. He says he il
learning Thank Heaven for that Per
haps at the end of his term he viii
have caught 10 with the Civil War pc
Rod in the demands Of commercial
and industrial people
AS the President has suddenly dis
covered the whole world is changing;
it. fs always changing, and no theorist
can Bona for the morrow. Only the
Iiveliest mind, FURNISHED by constant
brushing in the whrl Of practical af-
fairs can keep pace with the needs Of
1.-The best brains in the world
The President mas grasped one horn
OF the dilemma but he apparently
thinks the beast Il unicorn instead Ut
q bovine For he has missed altogether
the fact that while the brst brains Of
the world" are in America those same
best brains refuse fatty 70, liVe-as do
the owners Of less bright and active
brains.
One Of these days, We predict Wood
row Wilson will change his mind again,
when he discovers that the difference
between the American standard of live
ing and the standards of other peoples,
il as Great AZ Is the difference in the
quality Of their gray matter.
because the hpathetic peasants Of
Europe. the class ridden hosts Of Asia.
or the hopeless millions Of Africa. can
be held 10 the bare necessities of ex
istence, our President who has lived in
a book world. thinks that same stand
ara IL ROOU enough IOT JDut
he is wrong, and we believe he will
some day progress far enough to be-
come real American; to understand
that Americans COULD live as do the
ten cents a day laborers Of some other
governments. but they WON'T for as
he has at last learned. they have brains
that can get something better.
1.-THE best brains in the world" biund-
cred in the last Presidential election
but they won't do it again while this
generation lasts.
1.-THE best brains in the world" have
to "put their wits into free competition
with the world"
Tariff protection Of American indus
Try and labor. 10 the PRODUCT Of 1.-The
best brains in the world" and because
the theoretically trained mind OF
Woodrow Wilson has pitted the small
weight Of itself against the great mass
Of 1.-The best brains in the world" Is
the reason why the people will have
no more of him.
THE brains lin the worldp want an
AMERICAN President not a man who
continuously schemes TO lower ~6he
standard Of Americanism because he
sees temporary honors for himself in
fOoling the country.
Americans may be. as the President
insists, rude and narrow" provin-
ciaD but he acknowledges that he has
broadened out to some OF their
teachings in the last twelve months
Lot him retire to private life and grow
some more. Perhaps he will UNDER
stand American ideals, some day. p.