The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-30

educator TO read his comment upon
Washington's farewell address. It IL In
complete harmony with the cold. indif-
ferent and ill-concealed contempt for
everything American found throughout
his writings.
Now don't laugh at washinRtons
farewell address, No Boston born au-
dienee needs any such suggestion.
single son may disgrace her soil, but the
title deeds of American liberty ana
American honor are not jeered In Boston,
and nowhere else except among traitors.
we may destroy our Institutions, we
may BRING ruin and chaos to this noble
edifice, we may uproot It's traditions and
dry up the streams OF national life Just
as effectually by doing out to the youth
OF this country, as their daily intellectual
food, contempt and derision for Ameri-
can institutions and American teachings
as with the bomb and the red flag.
ouotes Wilson on Divorcement.
ut was quoted in the papers some
months ago that the President said to
an editor In England that the break with
Washipgton's policies was not incidental,
but fnal that he had entered upon an
other and different system, and that
the enforcement from the past was COM
plete and irrevocable.
ut is one OF the Actions of American
history, evidently believed now more
than ever before, that while washington
was great In character and noble in
soul he was unframed In statecraft, un-
learned IN government That view,
strange to say, has not obtained In other
countries 50 much as In our own. But Il
Will not stand the test of inquiry or Of
fact. He was one Of the wisest and most
adroit of men, one of the most profound
statesmen Of his or any age, one of those
who had the power to penetrate the
future, to read there the result of policies
such as no other man in the history of
the world ever possessed.
THE entire system he founded must
stand or fall together. You cannot
separate and still maintain the American
Republic as Washington understood II.
Having eyes to see, let us see, and
having ears to hear, let us hear the
things which are daily transpiring about
U.S. America Is no longer the America we
have heretofore known and loved why
not admit 1t and set about, In an or
derby fashion. to redeem TT Things
which are foreign to her whole nature,
at war with all her plans and purposes,
which challenge her entire intellectual
and moral life. having found recogni-
ton and advocacy here and are now be-
ing propagated both from places high
and from low throughout the land.
New Issue Stated by President.
when our honored President said at
Kansas City that the League Of Nations
as greater than the American Senate
greater than the American Republic, he
stated the issue. just as It is. Those
who believe In the League of Nations
believe that the American system has
failed. They believe that It is neces-
sary to erect a superstructure and a
eupergovernment which Is to be domi-
nant over the Republic, greater and
more powerful The President has gone
to the logic OF his presentation and
taken It to the American people. They
are proposing to give US a government
superior to and which will dominate
the American Republic. II the league
can do what Is promised 1t must in the
practical course of affairs dominate the
American Republic. II 1t is not fancy,
mere dream. tissue of theories, IL
the council and the assembly can do
what they are authorized to do. then