The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-02-25


This Wilson Myth is rough on us as a
nation. We have lived under its shadow
for some time and have survived, but
how long is it wise to keep it up! Just
after President Wilson reached France it
looked as if no modest American would
ever dare show his face in Europe again.
We read: Wilson asserts" Wilson in
sists-," Wilson demands" even evil
son fights AS for the great men he
met, they agreed" they "acquiesced,"'
and Wilson was "favorably impressed"
We even had the statement that "spe
cial writer"-name omitted by Mr.. Creel
said: 1--WE pictured Wilson as akin to
Christ not consenting to Golgothia,"
whatever might be meant by that. "Am-
orleans Dominate Peace Council" was a
recent modest little touch. Do the Pres
ident's sycophantic admirers believe that
they are paying him compliment when
the represent him as asserting, demand
ing, dictating-in other words, as being
rude to his hosts? In point of fact, we
know he is doing nothing of the sort, and
his bitter enemies could hardly show him
in worse light. Of all men on earth he
has most need to pray to be delivered
from his friends.
This Misrepresentation is so evidently
designed to stir up affecting between us
and our allies or to foster an obnoxious
national cOnceit among ignorant people,
and the stupid 'T-prefer-to- think" gentry
that one wonders that any responsible
editors allow themselves to become par
ticeps criminis. If our newspapers could
be held this side of the Atlantic we might
be able to view the passing phase philo-
sophieally, but that our allies should feel
that we as nation are pleased at the pic
-ture of Car President going over there
to insist and demand and fight and con-
descend, is intolerable. Unfortunately,
the plain people of European countries
have very befuddled ideas about our ma
tonal psychology, having regarded us
chiefly as dollar throwers before the war.
What can they think when such stuff is
published and our editors add no criti-
cism or reputation? Perhaps they will
realize that this editorial silence is intend
ed, mistakenly or otherwise, as cour-
tesy to the absent. Perhaps they won't.
In any case it is humiliating and danger
GUS stand, since it holsters up the Wilson
N.Y. VA, eliiu lily Iilo have d ulSCOIlCerCulR
habit of exploding sooner or later.
A good American dryly remarked the
othe day that he felt Germany would soon
be the only country where Democrat
could live comfortably. Certainly the
people have learned that myths explode.
However, the Kaiser, who was born to
the legend of divine immunity and ominis-
cence, is far more deserving of sympathy
than his sycophantic people, who tumbled
all over themselves to kowtow before that
myth and who would be kowtowing to-
day had they won the war; Not one per-
son in all that seventy million had the
sense or the courage to say to him: "Come
down off those stiltsw Kowtowing, sy-
cophancy, adulation, lack of criticism
when criticism is the very breath of life
and stimulus to action in all truly great
men-where are we drifting? And is it
not time to call halt?
IAIs u
The day will come when l ought to
speak, and shall.--William Hohenzollern.
When? "Der Tag?" Or when the
court inquiries, civilian Hohenzollern
have you anything to say why the sem
tence of the court shall not now be i'm
posed upon you?"-The Weekly.
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