Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-05-31
MAKE THE AMERICAN
IDEAL NONPARTlSAN.

What would the foreign nations
think if they knew all of the things
that go to make up IA partisan cam
paign under the American plan of par
ty government? There has never been
an effort to have a form of ethical
treatment of matters relating to the
purely American thought. No one has
ever evolved a plan for the two DOM
inant American parties to have mu-
tual understanding about American
matters BY this is meant a process
of treating a subject, say, like the re-
cent world war 1t so happened that
the war took place under Democratic
administration. The entry of the Unit
ed States into the war took it out from
party meaning in any sense, and there
fore in the larger view it was purely
a national interest, neither party hav-
ing the right to claim the honors.
Chairman Homer S. Cummings
touches upon this point in an admira-
BILE speech made this week, based on
the Republican attacks now making
against the Wilson administration.
aIHOIlS Ol1ltl tHliiSS ne Sttiu
THE war was won and | challenge
the critics of the administration to sug-
gest how, within the bounds of human
possibility, we could have won the war
more promptly or with less loss of
American life. The Republican party
is rendering small service to America
when it converts the machinery of its
int ;nS, of q T.
tack upon American leadership and
American honor.
what would the conditions of our
country have been if labor had been
discontinued and unwilling to follow
the leadership of our President? If no
preparation had been made to encOur-
age the farmer in supplying the need
of the world for food? If our finances
had remained in the state in which the
Republican party left them? All these
measures We're essential to Americas
success, and they were the very basis
upon which that success was founded.
And yet these reforms have been en-
acted since President Wilson first be-
came President of the United States.
Presidents Great Effort.
"When the war began it was the
Judgment of the military experts of the
German empire that we would not be
able to create an army inside of two
years.
They said that if we could accom-
plish this feat we could not transport
the army to France. and that if some
of our soldiers reached the firing line
the trained troops of Germany would
destroy them. And yet we raised an
army of 100000 men, and we trans
ported more than 100000 soldiers to
France.
For the first time an agreement has
been adopted, calculated to include Ill
timately all the nations of the world
and to arrange international affairs,
not in accordance with the outworn
doctrines of another age, but in har-
mOny with the principles of human jus
tice applicable equally to the great and
TO the small. That an American Presi-
dent is engaged in this work should
move every American heart, irrespec-
tive of party utilization or personal
prejudice, to a fervent prayer that he
may succeed in his great task
Despite all obstacles and discour-
agements, he has persisted Within a
few weeks, if all goes wen, he will re-
turn to America bearing with him the
greatest document of human liberty
that was ever prepared by the hands
of man."