The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1918-11-01
COX EDITORIALS
.STARTLE COUNTRY.
Man Seeking Third Term Says
U-BOats 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 Goddess German
Voters by Saying "Nor 10 Victory
by Germans Worst Thing That Can
Happen"
Columbus. O.-tspecial.) Attempts
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 Or them
OF later date than any quoted By
him. One OF these quotations, dated
April /, 19I7--bus 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, fsf5-fs1s.
One Of the earliest forms of pubA-
licity subsidized by the German Inn
perial government In this country.
| maintained that victory by Ger
many was not at all undesirable, and
that this was war brought about
| by flnanciers. 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.
III the allies were TO win, and
their winning meant great In
crease OF Russian aegressivenass
on the one aide, and OF Japanese
self-assertiveness upon the other.
AMERICA MIGHT LIVE ro DE
VERY SORRY THAT GERMANY
HAD NOT WON"
On Nov. 23rd, 1915, Mr.. Cox said:
THE war will atop when tho
financlers discover they can make
more money by stepping Il than
they can by continuing IT,"
We jump year. In order to find
what the developments brought te
Mr.. Cox, and find this expression,
| Oct. 9Th, 1916:
| "lt would help II the Marrin0
nations would stop fighting long
enough to explain what they hope
to gain by continuing the ssrug-
GLE"
1OuR GERMAN FRIENDS
= should have BIT OF pa
tience with the government.
We have not heard OF nsany
Americans biting their sinasr
nails at the thought of suGMAr
RINE ACTIVITIES. All OF NO
FEEL SORRY for any merchant
vessel that In SENT TO THE
BOTTOM OF the sea, whether
armed or unarmed. We feel
| SORRY ALSO for the nan-oF-vsas
| that ls sunk in fair eneeunteP.
! 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 or. THE GERMAN
u-BoATs. THEY HAVE COM.
MiTTED NO CRIME AGAlNsT
Us. ~ WE FEEL SORRY Ses
the men who have lost shais
lives In this war;. and fer xhs
women and children who have
been made to suffer Through ne
fault Of their own. Rut IL 10 NOT
| IN ~ a n
NOT GOING 70 INTERFERE
| with either side. Z -
Probably no more callousad e6t-
torial was ever written In the state
of Ohio than this. 1t was the gospel
OF force, personifed. 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. I'm
| the view OF MIR. Cox, these things
i constituted no crime against u.s. They
did, however, shortly after, constitute
/ such serious crime that we went
into the war. To make impossible u
repetition OF these crimes and others
i similar to them, the blood OF the best
i sons of the United States la being
sacrificed every hour on European
\ battlefields today.
4 FOR SENTIMENTAL PURPOSES.
"s : The Best WAY to In
i jure our enemy, II Germany
| should become our enofsy,
through daelaration of war, or
because OF a skaSes Of war, ls 10
4 SUPPLY THE pEFIciENclEs OF
the allies. These deficiencies
| consist of FOOD and CLOTH.
! INC and MUNITIONS or WAR.
/ INSTEAD OF DivERTtNG ouR
| RESOURCES TO RAISING AN
/ ARMY OF A COUPLE OF MIL
/ LION MEN; lNsTEAD or sENEs~
ING MEN ABROAD FOR &Essa
/ TiMENTAi- PURpo8Eey w@
ought to 60 fs s~ork 60 supply
the allies Mitss everything they
need -- AND THEY DO NOT
i NEED MEN - we can hasg
| SERVE QUA cWM PURPOSES
by furnisfsing either szasaar TsAAM