Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-07-26
PEOPLE CONTINUE TO
BACK THE PRESIDENT
Editor of the Ledger Finds East Solid
Behind Wilson and Less SLACK
ers'' in Evidence
SENTIMENT TO SMASH KAISER
Gives the Patriotic "DOnt's" of a Co.
lumbia Faculty Member-AlI
Worthwhile

SOUTHAMPTON, L. l., N. Y, July
II, 1917. - The people of the East,
regardless of politics, are behind the
President and the government in the
war, and agree with Senator John
Sharp Williams (who wants to "smash
the Kaiser without any ifs or ands)
when he said:
"The President Travelled the whole
gamut, up and down. He allowed this
Nation to suffer humiliation after
humiliation, shame piled upon shame
-grazed the very edge Of coward
ice-because his heart beat in unison
with the cause of just and lasting
peace"
And that's the truth. Maybe some
of our Western people, who seem
to be for ''peace at any price," are
controlled by their slackers in Wash
ington, or is it the other way around :!
Williams seems to be attracting un-
favorable notice along this line, and
we feel confident the fault lies with
our Washington Representatives and
not with the people back home. The
hackers of the Kaiser are growing
beautifully smaller in number every
day, not only in this country, but in
Germany and his end is within sight.
DR.. Slosson, of Columbia University
has compiled the following "dont's'
which appear to meet cordial approx
al of the people:
"Don't say, My country right OF
wrong We aren't wrong.
"Don't call national necessity and
international justice by any name as
vague as national honor
| "Dont say Wall Street or Brit.
ish gold or the Northcliffe press
made this war. You don't have Il
bribe nation to make it respect the
murder Of its citizens.
"Don't call every pro-ally pro
British Great Britain is only one
Of dozen or so Of the allies.
"Dont say that both sides thinl
they are fighting a defensive war. A
man may honestly think that two
and six are eleven, but 1t doesn't MAKE
them so.
"Don't call universal training
'Prussian militarism.' It is no mor'
Prussian than 1t is Swiss, French
British, Argentine, Japanese or Aus
tralian.
Don't say that we owe aid 4
France on account Of Lafayette
We didn't help France in 1870, and W,
were right not to do so. We onl!
owe aid to any nation when it i
fighting (as at presently in a right
eous quarrel.
Don't say that it doesn't make an.
difference to the workingman wha
country governs him. On the contrar,
it makes more difference to him thai
to any one else, because the rich maj
can spend his time in travel or bu,
his way into the privileged class if h
, finds political conditions oppressive.
Few citizens of America would in
, tentionally be guilty of disloyalt,
, either in word or deed. But just a
there are traitors among our people
so there are traitorous tongues, and j
is imperative that we guard agains
anything that savors of disloyalty.
Dr.. Slosson's "dont's"-if they b
obeyed-will save many after regret
for those who thoughtlessly utter sen
timents which their hearts and mind
do not indorse.
The weather is delightfully."- coo
here, but most too wet for the pc
tato crop which looks fine. The farm
ers here are doing their best to hel
feed the world, while the women ar
Z hard at work for the Red Cross 0
allied activities.
e With good crops in Missouri l thin
q Mexico is entering on the most pros
9 porous year in its history and feel cor
d fident the merchants and citizens ger
: orally will wake up to the import
ance of cooperating in the directio
: of bringing more labor to Mexico
: That's the way to have 10000 popr
: lation by 1920.
: r. M. WHITE.
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