Middletown transcript., 1917-03-10
MIDDLETOWN, DEL, MAR. 10, 1917
WILSON REBUKES WILSON

NOTHING abashes Mr.. Wilson. He
~ glibly announces to-day policy
the very opposite of one he was pro-
claiming yesterday, with a third, or
fourth at variance with all the rest !!
He has faced about so often upon most
of his leading policies that friends and
critics alike have been hopelessly be-
wildered in trying to find something re-
sembling consistent course amid the
entangling maze of it all.
He caustically denounces those sena-
torial traitors who, led by Senator
Stone, of Missouri, the Democratic
chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Relations, thru their dishonest filibuster
prevented the overwhelming majority
of their fellow Senators from voting at
this critical moment upon the question
of arming American vessels for self
defence against Germany's piracy.
That denunciation of these cowardly,
unpatriotic Senators was entirely de-
served, and every patriotic American
applauds his words. But unfortunately
the presidents act loses much OF its
force because he himself has for years
followed the very course he is now de-
nouncing-a another illustration Of his
utter want of anything like consistency
in his public policies.
Does any one doubt that Mr.. Wilson
in f1ogging these Senators is scourging
his own back? If so, read his message
to the Sd session of the 63d Congress,
in 1914. vol. l, messages and Docu-
ments," pages 5-13. Hear him:
He opposes enforced training Of young
men for military service "the time or
place does not especially call for such
[defense1 measures p. u; criticises
those who do, as Thrown oft their
balance bv war with which we have
nothing to do, and whose causes cannot
touch u.s." p. 12; such persons "shoud
be ashamed Of any thot Of hostility, or
fearful preparation for trouble, +" p. Y;
advised. s'when half the world is Oh
fire. we shall be careful to make our
moral insurance against the spread Of
the confagration very definite, very
certain indeed" p. 12. Perhaps Mr..
Wilson. thot his endless writing Of fine
notes would be a moral insurance
against Germany's murderous torpe-
does Moral preparation indeed!
Then, he asks '.who shall tell us what
sort of navy to build?'; declares, we
shall not alter our attitude [of opposl-
tion1 toward it because some amongst
lis are nervous and excited" p. IL.
Finally. he dismisses the whole question
of a greater navy with calm disdaln-
sThere is no need to discuss it," add
ing" we have not been negligent OF
national defence" &c!
Yet every school-boy knows now,
over two years after these words We're
uttered by the president, that cur coun-
try is almost wholly unprepared to de-
fend itself on land or seaAin fact, our
army did not keep lot of miserable
Mexican "greasers" from invading the
border states and burning houses and
numbering citizens
Then in his foolish speech at Phladei-
phia in 1915 Mr.. Wilson openly pro
fessed himself as "too proud to fight,
and that, too, after. Germany had
slaughtered lib Americans on board the
Lusitania and committed other like out
RACES
Moreover, his whole cabinet, except
Secretary of War Garrison, whom he
forced out, was opposed to doing any
thing to put the country in position to
protect itself from foreign insult or out
rage, his Secretary Of State, Bryan as
suring Wilson that between daylight
and dark an army of 1000, 900 men could
be raised" etc.
Are not the cold facts at this moment,
March 10th, 1917, that because of this
folly Of Mr.. Wilson, his Democratic
Congress and Cabinet, our land IS at
the mercy of any strong foe attacking
on land or ocean? So, we submit that
his caustic message rebuking those
traitorous Senators, is his own rebuke!
..In the immediate presence OF
crisis traught with more subtle and 1ar-
reaching possibilities of national danger
than anv other the government mas
x.,Lo1o hictnrU Of IFS