El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-09

CNCERE supporters Of president Wilson in the war peo-
y pie who have been supporting to the point Of
pushing the administration, sometimes crcise the presi
dents speeches by saying they lack punch; that they are
TOO temperate too philosophical and much too verbose
Some Of the presidents uerances have been masterpieces
Of rhetoric but without single declaration to gup the
mind.
Not all his communications have been Of that kind For
instance there communication to Mexico at one time
which shot electric sparks every sentence There
communication 70 Germany regarding submarine warfare IN
which, after loud exposition Of various phases Of the mat
ter the president concluding paragraph that
unless Germany dropped the campaign Of ruhessness the
United States would be obliged to sever relations There
also his memorable address to congress IN asking
gess to declare the existence Of state Of with Ger
many. It was full Of hot shot
The latest public statement by the president his speech
at Baltimore opening the campaign IN that city for the
third Liberty loan started like many the Others verbose
and little pedautc II began to gather power with the
declaration that Germany had achieved only cheap
triumph in Russia and which self respecting nation
could endure And then developed another Of those hot
last paragraphs which came ringing out as follows:
Germany has once said that force and force alone
shall decide whether justice peace shall reign in the a
fairs Of men; whether right as America concaives il or
dominion she oonoeves it shall determine the desnies
Of mankind There is therefor but response possible
from Force force to the utmost force without stint
limit; the righteous and triumphant force which shall
make right the law Of the world and cast every selfish
dominion down in the dust"
Small wonder 1900 people to cheer these words
They express the popular feeling Meet a blow with
harder blow Germany has struck first but let give the
knockout Choke the pasts hang the traitors spies and
dynamters (but BY orderly process Of law not BY mobs)
possesses
The presidents last paragraph the sort thing which
fires the fighting spirit Of the people his academic dis
cussons do not Would that he would himself loose
often and raise the roof His temperatures is
flaming sword in time Of He seems to be afraid Of
losing his temper On that point he says IN his Balt
more speech:
81 can you to witness my fellow citizens that at no
stage Of this terrible business have judged the purposes
Of Germany ntempsrately should be ashamed in the
presence Of affairs grave, faught with the destines
Of mankind throughout the world to speak with truculeuce
10 the weak language Of hatred vndcve purpose
In this speech in others which he has delivered the
Of his American audience and speaking to the people Of
Germany urging them to overthrow the emperor and his
military cotele who are making the German people their
tools TO ont world dominion. He so bent
upon being fair and conderate to the German people that
he 1egects the great duty Of firing the spirit IN
people except for such occasional paragraphs his
force utts-ance at Baltimore. The president great
and wise who lays his plans carefully and carries them
out with very large ability Nevertheless It is probable
that # the majority opinion IN the United States and all
the allied countries expressed II would be that ap
pals to the German people wasted breath The kaises
ideas have been implanted IN their minds earliest child
hood They got them IN school and church. from the stage
they congegated These principles obsessons what
they properly to be called ngrained that
only mental and spiritual earthquake, upheaval and
pTerturning Of the German mind affect them
What viii this earthquake? The president him
self has said iforos Force and force nothing but
force Brute strength supplemented by the most powerful
engines OF To fine sentiments, to humane appeals
Germany is deaf and blind Only blows from the hairy fist
Of Mars convey to that insulated mind the message Of
outraged world.
Then let have Of the appeals to Germany and
fighting words for the people of the United States