The Alaska daily empire., 1917-06-23
NAGGING THE ADMINISTRATION

(New York Word)
 From reader of the World in Boston we have received communication which is entitled to more than casual consideration:
 To the Editor of the World:
 l am sending you herewith an editorial
 from the Boston Herald. Is it possible to get
 at the truth regarding Daniels Baker and Me
 Adoo? Is Daniels being made scapegoat by
 the Powder Trust the steel magnates and oth
 CTS for his combating their prices or is he
 really incompetent? Admiral Chochprat said
 that navy in splendid condition of
 efficiency and second to Englands
 Is Baker incompetent? Is McAdoo ncom
 petent? Or is the hue and the work of
 selfish interests who desiring of busting
 these for the sake of their own aggran
 dizement? What do you think of this editor
 ial and it's effect upon the country?
 It is impossible to get true perspective 2eis6sn
 tighten get your paper daily and would
 welcome an editorial that will answer this
 MT Daniels is not incompetent MT. Baker is not incompetent. MT. McAdoo is not incompetent On the contrary, they are all rendering splendid service to the country whatever mistakes they have made in the past or may make in the future
 On the other hand do not believe that "the hue and cry to which correspondent refers is the work of selfish interests. Some of it is inspired by blind partisanshp some of it by ignorance and some of by the habit of naggng It is to find fault The United States has been at war with Germany since April G. and the has not been Some body must be to blame, and what is simpler than to hold the Secretary of the Navy the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Treasury responsible?
 When the British and French commissions arrived in the United States they astonshed to discover how much had already been accomplished and how wisely the Administration had taken advantage of the bunders that the British and French had committed in the earlier months of the In particular, the French were amazed at the efficiency of the navy They had taken the attacks upon the Daniels admins tration seriously and assumed that the little better than heap of junk. And it goes. The men who make the least complaint against the United States government the who know the most about the and best informed what the government has accomplished. The attacks upon MT Daniels, MT Baker and MT. McAdoo chiefly echoes of the 1916 campaign
 It is no simple task to make the United States eff fective in and in particular in which has proved itself greater than government but the Admin istration is doing it we'll and the soundness of the military policies that it has adopted is beyond question
 The only honest criticism of an Administration en gagged in conducting war is specific criticism It must be based upon accurate information and definite acts of omission commission. Scolding is thar worthless. and the kind of railing to which cor respondent refers may easily become a national men by weakening the importance of criticism that to do with grave and nexcusable blunders. No cen of public officials is of any value whatever unless it is accompanied by bill of particulars
 This war will not be by abusing the Persi dent and the Cabinet It will be only by helping them-helpng them to stay right when they righ and helping them to get right when they wrong The American who criticises his government in any other spirit is hamperng his country and aiding his enemies.