The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-10
Thoughts From "a Wooden Mind.

New York Sun: A certain person
Che is always certain) formerly OF
Nebraska. but now Ubiquitous. has
exercised a citizens right of petition
in constructing a letter to the honor
able senate of the United States. He
has taken leave to print this before
hand. His methods match his vagaries.
With a patronizing flourish he pro-
ceeds thus to admonish these repre-
sentatives. and incidentally every one
else. as to present public duty.
This document is not needed as a
further sample of one who has been
posturing so long. He is always
1895 and over and over since then he
has been laughed out of court. Yet
still he takes himself seriously! He is
too shallow to gage the disgust with
which intelligent Americans view his
antics and hear his vociferous follies.
He is a peripatetic faker fancying
himself an oracle. He is a meddler
will he find out that no opinion of his
upon any subject is important to any
large body of Americans.
A straddler by instinct, he is only
complacent when he is superserviceable
He sticks at no interference. Always
he sends in bill for his f1uency. With
skull padded with fallacies and half
Il1S SIlCl1 O11 Tic DcCh OI Ills nGdu. nc
parades his native land and pervades
1t with a kind Of pompous pusiIlanimi-
ty. In the name of the prophet!
Figs!"
He ffatters himself that he is an
influence. whereas upon no subject is
his opinion worthy of attention by any
one outside of a custodial asylum
Having exploited every ism, he sup
poses that wisdom will die with him!
Silence is to him hatefully golden.
Having been kicked upstairs by Presi-
dent Wilson and having then escaped
he still makes the Democratic party
his Sindbad.
And this is the man who while the
most elemental things of human
liberty are in the balance presumes
to lecture the senate upon a situation
slightest moral understanding. In this
crisis OF time he is willing to abandon
fundamental righteousness and leave
France and England to fight the
worlds great battle against Prussian-
isnl Such q superserviceable prophet
OF poltroonery might well visit Bel
gium, and many there are who gladly
would subscribe toward his passage
second class.
m:itsar?- onffi- drAfsh
For truly, as even he perceives. ''the
situation has passed beyond the
domain Of diplomacy" Overt acts, en-
ougf to satisfy all but towards, have
smitten America on both cheeks. Yet
he would still further invite the
derision Of mankind for our voluble
inaction! Would it not be better, as
well as cheaper to submit to the adj
vice of Berlin! Wincing under the
dog whip, he urges us upon a refer
endum! Yellow all through, this pat
nt-applied for peace man has no ink
ling of his dastardly absurdity.
How long must we be affronted bv
his disloyalty to "a cause which his
tory will justify?p How long shall he
cry Peace. Peace. toward that which
insults the very word? Unable to
value the sword of q divine justice, he
walks in world of goddess dream
inRs. He is a craven who would
abandon everything but his own Ioqua-
city and is willing that his country
should drink gall not only, but prussic
acid. Out upon this cringinR faddisti
He is equally disloyal TO the rights and
to the duties Of America He is the
foe within our own household. Cease,
Bryan! Hold your peacei