Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-10-31
cox EDITORIALS
STARTLE COUNTRY
Man Seeking Third Term Says
U-B0atS Have Committed No
Crime Against Us.
FOR SENTIMENTAL PURPOSES

He Says Uncle Sam Must Not Send
Men to France and at the Same
Time Mr.. Cox coddIes German
Voters by Saying "Nor is Victory
= by Germans Worst Thing That Gan
Happen"
Columbus, O.-(Special.)- l.)-Attempt
Of Governor James M. Cox and his
satellite partisan organization, the
Patriotic league, to make an issue of
the pre.war views of his opponent,
has reacted with startling effect ow-
ing to the publication of the views
expressed by Mr.. Cox, some of them
of later date than any quoted by
him. One Of these quotations, dated
April 1, 1917-but five days before
the United States entered the war
shows that Mr.. Cox, at the time gov
ernor, was opposed to sending troops
to France. The quotations, with at
tendant comment, are as follows:
cox's VIEWS, 1s15-1e1s.
One of the earliest forms of pub
licity subsidized by the German i'm
perial government in this country,
maintained that victory by Ger
many was not at all undesirable, and
that this was a war brought about
by financiers. To both of these forms
of propaganda Mr.. Cox subscribed.
On Nov. 7th, 1915, (six months
after the Lusitania was sunk) Gov
ernor Cox said, in the Dayton Daily
News:
"Nor is victory by Germany
the worst thing that can happen.
II the allies were to win, and
their winning meant a great in
crease of Russian aggressiveness
on the one side, and of Japanese
self-assertiveness upon the other,
AMERICA MIGHT LIVE TO BE
VERY SORRY THAT GERMANY
HAD NOT WON"
On Nov. 23rd, 1915, Mr.. Cox said:
"The war will stop when the
fnanciers discover they can make
more money by stopping it than
they can by continuing It."
We jump year, in order to find
what the developments brought to
Mr.. Cox, and find this expression,
Oct. 9Th, 1876
at would help If the warning
nations would stop fighting long
enough to explain what they hope
to gain by continuing the strug-
sle."
"oUR GERMAN FRIENDS
should have a BIT of pa
tience with the government.
We have not heard of many
Americans biting their finger
nails at the thought of SUBMA-
RiNE AcTIvITIEs. All of us
FEEL SORRY for any merchant
vessel that is SENT TO THE
BOTTOM of the sea, whether
armed or unarmed. We feel
SORRY ALSO for the man-of-war
that Is sunk In fair encounter.
WE sYMPATHIZE WITH THE
SOLDIERS who are LOSING
THEIR LIVES IN THE TRENCH.
ES-with miserable humanity In
general. BUT OUR SKIRTS
ARE CLEAR AS REGARDS THE
ACTs OF THE GERMAN
u-BoATs. THEY HAVE COM.
| MlTTED NO CRIME AGAINST
! US. WE FEEL SORRY for
the men who have lost their
lives in this war, and for the
! women and children who have
been made to suffer through no
fault Of their own. But Il 10 NOT
/ OUR WAR; and we are
| NOT GOING TO INTERFERE
F.. with either side. ="
/ Probably no more calloused edi.
torial was ever written in the state
of Ohio than this. 1t was the gospel
of force, personified. The Lusitania
had been sunk; American lives had
been sacrificed by the hundreds
women and children had been de-
/, strOyed without warning, with malice
deliberately meditated, and yet, In
the view Of Mr.. Cox, these things
constituted no crime against us. They
did, however, shortly after, constitute
such serious crime that we went
into the war. To make impossible q
repetition of these crimes and others
similar to them, the blood of the best
sons of the United States is being
sacrificed every hour on European
battlefields today
FOR SENTIMENTAL PURPOSES.
~ The BEST WAY to in
jure our enemy, If Germany
should become our enemy,
through a declaration Of war, or
because of state of war, is to
SUPPLY THE DEFICIENCIES of
the alice. These deficiencies
consist of FOOD and CLOTH
ING and MUNITIONS OF WAR.
NiNSTEAD OF DlvERTiNG OUR
RESOURCES TO RAISING AN
ARMY OF A COUPLE OF MIL
LION MEN; INSTEAD OF SEND
ING MEN ABROAD FOR SEN
| TIMENTAL PURPOSES, we
ought to 90 to work to supply
the allies with everythlnu thev