New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-26

pfeacn ming the duty OF Ine SOnlIed
States to do what it never would
before abandon its habitual and
policy and deliberately
engage in the conflict which is now
eng ulfng the rest Of the world. 4
do not R;noW a0hdt the Standards OF q 4
zenskip Of these gentlemen mag be, q only
know that |, for one, cannot sub
scribe to those standards. = &
In the same speech, Mr.. Wilson said:
Every nation now engaged in the
gigantic struggle on the other side of
the water believes, with intensity
of conviction that cannot be exag-
gerated, that it is fighting for it's
rights, and in most Instances that
for it's life; and ace mast net be too.
critical of the men auko lead ,nose nations.''E
On February 2, 1916, speaking at
Kansas City, Mr.. Wilson said:
ssIt would tear the heartstrings of
America to be at war with any of
the great nations of the world. We.
can show our friendship for the
world and our devotion to the prin-:
ciples of humanity better and more
effectively by keeping out of this
struggle, than by getting into it,
f. On September 2, 1916, in the speech
accepting denomination, Mr.. Wilson said:
s ''We have been neutral not only
because at .ards. the. Il ed and tradionql.
policy o. the United States TO stand oloof
rom the politics % Europe but be-
cause 1t mds nanifestly oar, duty to
preeent, if it. were possible, the ex-
tension Of the fires of hate and
desolation kindled by that terrible
conflict
AS Mr. Hearst said, in a signed edito-
rial in this newspaper on July 18th:
"The convention which renonaina-
ted Mr.. Wilson was controlled by
direct wire from the White House,
and the burden of all the nominal
ing speeches and the tenor of all the
proceedings of the convention we're
that Mr.. Wilson had kept us out of
war and that the only acay for as to
continue. to keep ,out o. war was to re-elect
Mr.. Wilson.
"In letter to Senator Stone,
then chairman of the Senate For
eign Relations Committee, Feb
| ruary "a, 1916, MIR. Wilson said:
IS You are right in assuming that
shall do. everything in: my power
to keep the United States out Of war.
II do not doubt that shall continue
to succeed.
Addressing deleg alton of Scandi-
navians who visited him in the
White House on March 49,, 1916,
can assure you that nothing IS
nearer mig heart than Keeping this country
outsof acar.''.
And speaking at Shadow Lawn
September 80, 1916, to twenty-five
hundred young men from New
York and New Jersey, Mr.. Wilson
declared:
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=" The certain prospects of the
success of the Republican party lis
that we shall be drawn in one form
or other into the en1broilr,ents of
the European war.
And so Mr.. Wilson was reelected
because he had except US out of war, .
with definite pledge that he would
also keep us out Of the ENVIRONMENTS
of European politics, jealousies and
strife
On December IS, 1916, less than four
months before he asked Congress to
declare war, Mr.. Wilson addressed an
identical note to all the belligerent
governments, in which he said:
The objects which the statesmen Of
the belligerents, on both sides,
have in mind in this war are airtudlly
! the same, as stated in general terms
to their own peoples and to the
world. Each side desires to make
the rights and privileges Of weak
! peoples and small states as secure
against aggression or denial in the
future as the rights and privileges
.fof the great and powerful states
now at war. Each wishes itself
to be made secure in the future,
along with all other nations and
/ peoples, against the recurrence Of
1 wars like this against agressions or
1 selfish interference Of every kind.
Each: deem it necessary to settle the
issues oFthe present war upon terms
that will certainly safeguard the
Independence, the territorial in
|ttsgrity and the political and conn
rlsrcial freedom Of the nations
involved
On January %, 1917, less than ninety
days before he asked Congress to: de-
clare war, Mr.. Wilson said to the Senate:
The question upon which the
whole future peace Of the world