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Chirp Like A Cricket,
Not A Roar Like A Lion
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Not A Roar Like A Lion
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zine. With craft and caution he mas
planted a bomb, intended TO DO"
President Wilson out of political eA-
istence. and in this Guy taWkeS
plot ne has had the uncucuS asSlS-
lance OF Senator Lodge, OF Massa.
chusetts, and the crafty support ol
Senator WadsWo rth, OF New ORR
But cunning and righteousness can
not win a contest like this. The
mountain of truth is too big TO be
discolored by such daubing brushes,
the facts too potent TO be mlnlmlZ-
ed by impish discrimination or dlstor-
ted by cunning castigation-
The Bible says he who draws the
sword shall perish by the sword.
Well, Roosevelt and his followers
first drew the political sword in this
dispute, and with their assuntptlVe
yalor they should not cry for quarter
before the blade of their own rapler
For Is years before the present
Democratic administration the he
publican party was the CUSTODIAN OF
the welfare of this Nation, and in ali
these 16 years it did but little to put
this country on a basis of adequate
preparation for war. Grover Cleve-
land started the American Navy on
it's way to imperial strength, out
Theodore Roosevelt, as President or
the United States, inaugurated ma
val program that curtailed the Cleve-
land policy. Great as our Navy IS
today, it would be far greater still
if the policy of Cleveland had pre-
vailed and the plans of Roosevelt
buried in the bottom of the sea. And
as it was with the Navy, so was 1t
with the Army, for Theodore Roose-
Welt left the Army of the United
States weaker than he had found 1t
seven years before.
No sooner, however, had Woodrow
Wilson, with his panoramic view OF
the history of the. world in peace
time and in war time, his thorough
knowledge of democratic aspirations
and economic possibilities, his SYM
patty with the masses and his con-
sideration of the classes-no sooner
had he become President of the
United States than the wheels CT
progress were set in motion to equip
this Nation as years before she
should have been equipped for the
solution of pressing national prob
lens and the handling of contingent
cies of an international nature.
The rehearsal of all the legisla-
ton of President Wilson to carry out
this progressive program would be
superfluous here. The world knows
it by heart. 1t insures him splen-
did place in the annals Of statesman
ship. 1t is the unmistakable trl-
umph of the democratic yearning
with which the heart of mankind
throbs and pulses today. And it car
ried Woodrow Wilson to wonderful
victory in 1916 against an avalanche
of money and a labyrinth of intrigue.
His Federal reserve bank law,
which Mulhall, the famous English
economist, said was of more worth
to the world than the Panama Canal,
saved this country, with the advent
of the war, from the most stupen-
dous panic in history and enabled us
-teFidejhe tunlH lttssIe3taass- watt eff
world war finance with hardly a
squeak or a tremoF of our old ship
of state. Without this Federal re-
serve bank today the United States
would be grinding and pounding on
the rocks of disaster
Nor is this all.
From a vision almost prophetic
came the Federal revenue bill, which
wrung a lordly portion of govern
mental revenue from internal taxes
instead of from tariff imposts, which
under the baneful influence of war
dwindled to a sum insufficient to
provide fabrication for our gears of
Government, let alone provide fuel
for the Treasury boiler that makes
the wheels of national life go round.
Our national experience since the
war started must carry conviction to
every fair-minded American that for
these two measures alone we owe an
ineffable debt Of gratitude to the
wisdom and craftsmanship of Wood
row Wilson.
Ald of our military realm we have
the self-same tale.
Theodore Roosevelt may indulge
himself in all the weird juggling of
language that pleases his fancy; he
may insensate himself in such in
spirational riot of emotional frenzy
as may give fire to his tongue and
flare to his Imagination; but the fact
remains undeniable, ineffaceable, ir-
removable, that in two years of ante
bellum days Woodrow wills on did
more to put our Army and our Navy
on footing OF war than both Will
liam Howard Taft and Theodore
Roosevelt did in the whole II years
of their Supine reign.
Ruring these two years prepared
ness for a possible war was pushed
by President Wilson as fast as the
sentiment of the country would per-
nit and quite as fast as even the
most violent of his present-day crit
jeSthen-deemed expedient or polite.
Suddenly, however, conditions Gre
ated by the autocratic dogmatism of