The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-06-29
TROUBLE AND TRoUBLE-MAKERs

TROUBLE AND TROUBLE-MAKERS
Our good friend, Mr. John E. Bal
ley has just presented us with copy
of Jared Sparks Life and Writings
of George Washington" and the very
first page we happened to turn to
was letter from a certain congress-
man written to General HOratio Gates
who gave a listening ear to a cabal
who were trying to ruin and supplant
General Washington. COMMANDMENTS
chief of the continental armies, and
drive him into obscurity.
This particular letter reads:
Il am fairly lost in my endeavors
to trace my hero through the MANY
parts Of his character. You have
saved our northern hemisphere, and, in
spite OF our c0nsummate and repeat
ed blunderings, you have changed the
constitution of the southern cam
paign, on the part Of the enemy, from
offensive to defensive. If you had re-
NAMED with this army we might
have opposed, but could not have
counteracted, the deep-rooted system
of fayoritism. which began to shoot
forth in New York, and which now
has arrived at its full growth and ma
turity
Repeated Sights and unjustifable
arrogance, combined with other caus-
es, to drive from the army those who
would not worship the image and
pay an undeserved tribute of praise
and f1attery to the great and power.
full The list of our disguised patri-
OTIS is long and formidable. We
have had a noble army melted down
by ill-judged marches, which disgrace
their authors and directors, and which
have occasioned the severest and
most just sarcasm and contempt of
our enemies, etc"
For all the world like the criticisms
against Woodrow Wilson. He, like
wise was accused of "bIundering."
We were told that he "blundered" in
sending the army into Mexico, at
Vera Cruz when Huerta insulted the
flag, and at the very time this crafty
villain was plotting with Germany
against the United States and died
with German money in his pockets.
To compare the statecraft and
strategy of the two we were told it
were to laugh.
And afterwards when Villa made
his attack on Columbus, \. NJ, one of
our peaceful American cities, and
General Pershing was sent across the
border to put stop to any more dep
relations, we were again told that
our president "blundered"
And when the Lusitania and other
vessels were sunk, one after another,
and those extraordinary notes we're
passed between our state department
and the state department of the impe-
rial government Of Germany we were
again old that our president blum
dered."
And, lastly, when we were put on
notice by Germany that all neutral
ships traversing the ocean within GER
tain zones would be sunk without
warning in defiance of the note that
if 1t were done it would be regarded
as a declaration OF war, we were
again told that our president "bIun-
dered."
And when he went before congress
with that memorable document and
asked that it be declared that state
of war exists between the two govern
ments-the United States and Ger
many-we were again told that he
"blundered."
And when he sent General Pershing
to France we were again greeted
with the same story that he again
"blundered, and he also "blundered"
when he sent Root to Russia
But he is LAUNDERING" the same
way that Washington "blundered"
and in the end it will be shown that
he will be held in the same venera-
ton that the memory of Washington
is held because his efforts are going
to end in giving salvation to the ma
tons, and will do away with kingly
power, and bring about universal and
lasting peace throughout the world
We are thankful that our trouble
makers are daily growing beautifully
less and their feeble efforts to belittle
the great man who is occupying the
White House will end as ignominous-
ly as did the cabal to displace Wash
ington and send him into obscurity.
EASILY EXPLAINED