The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-01-05
GARDNER ATTACKS
WILSON DIPLOMACY
SAYS President Is Characterize
ed With Moral Strabismus
of Franklin Pierce.

DETROIT, Jan. 5-Declaring Presi-
dent Wilson ais characterized with the
moral strabismus of q Franklin
Pierce" Congressman A. P. Gardner,
Of Massachusetts,, last night denounc-
ed the Administrations system Of
diplomacy before the Detroit Real
Estate Board.
The lawmaker also bitterly attack
ed the,League to Enforce Peace, and
the efforts of pacifists, Andrew Car
negie and Henry Ford in particular.
Excerpts from his address follow:
Excerpts From Address.
president Wilson. 50 It appears,
doesn't care which side wins the war,
provided the world can have peace and
the warriors passions be assuaged.
see no hope for lasting peace until
the Hapsburgs and the Hohenzollerns
have been defeated or see defeat star
ing them in the face. President
Wilson would send the Kaiser to Sun.
day school. would end him to
st. Helena .-
'But the worst Of 1t is that we are
behaving as II we were afraid of
Germany. Let us comfort ourselves:
a mighty good thing he is making
Of It, too.
Might Follow japan.
Perhaps, II we were to follow
Japan's example we might be able to
redeem President Wilson's promise Of
strict accountability without entail
ting even so much as the pain of a
tooth-ache on the boy whose mother
did not bring him UP to be a soldier.
81 wish that the President would
follow the example Of his most re-
cent Democratic predecessor and
adopt the policy Of dispatching in
ternational notes which admit of only
one Interpretation.
Double Discounted.
''Clever as is the web of words
with which Woodrow Wilson shrouds
his meaning, the statesmen Of Eu-
rope can double discount him in diplo-
matte thimble-rigging.
"Grover Cleveland may have been
rough from Europe's point of view,
but he certainly was ready. 1t Is true
that Cleveland was no master of the
niceties OF dainty manicured English,
but he could electrify the world with
a ringing note on Great Britain's ag-
gressions in South America, and he
could make that note understood the
very first time without calling on
his Secretary of State to explain II
up and explain it down with three
separate interpretations and then add
a fourth himself.
Admits Their strength.
Republican as I am, I admit the
rugged strength OF Andrew Jackson
and Grover Cleveland. 1 wish that
some statesman OF that sturdy type
ruled this country today!
mo such luck! Woodrow Wilson, to
our sorrow, is characterized by the
moral strabismus of Franklin
Pierce. who preferred slavery to vio-
lence, rather than by the wholesome
turbulence of a Jackson of a Cleve-
land, who preferred a good stout
punch for America to a hollow bar
gaining for q front seat at Europe's
council board.
League To Enforce Peace.
Now comes this proposition of the
League to Enforce Peace, headed by
our distinguished fellow-citizen, VIII
liam Howard Taft.
Judging by several OF his public
utterances, I should be inclined to
add that the League to Enforce Peace
has the backing OF President Wilson,
were 1t not for the fact that the
Presidents utterances are not always
susceptible of clear Interpretation I'M
til we are quite sure that we have Mr..
Lansing's final explanation of the
Presidents meaning"