Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-05
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that d ,nigtaken and dogged!y cluns-
10 policy On TIE part u the then
Preg,dent had paved the way. bat
.he crisis came when Theodore
EooeveIt refused the delegation tina:
would have mace nie nomila III IN
possible, rather than " compromise.
Tha, decielon elected Woodrow VIII
son hen Theodore IsooeevsIt H@aoaid
have yeen Presidenr III the Tinted
Slater. American destiny dssia ;e1
sharply toward the medieval
European $chemers FOR loot And
power and agzranaizeLnent saw tbs
much s>ones than we did. /, was :..e
rpp1rt unity for 3 coup. And We in
vaciiiatinz performance in Mexico
frat hharnei every patriotic Amer
ran and made U. tire snee-inz g,ocx
~ Europe. Il was .he Huns caancs.
T,sepz rcd .os nd awaited II, haif a
generation.
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q |a.cnman x.iiiou, grasp ~ mo.al
,;eciz.on q. the I<-okout- To-Day al
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%incE. There are ~ be no short cz:g
~ Heaven. re me- AZ !as. under
stand, We !nGr 20 through the r1.li
II ages ana pay the toll.
What event may ~e expect to nai:
'nis rctrograde movement and ten
dency7 We my .tiil hope, for 1T IL
natural 10 man 70 indulge in the 81
Iusions Ut hope" The darkest fogs
Of the past have been dispeiled by
the bright light kind!ed from a. small
spark Of intelligence. We are skep.i-
cal because sparks from the keenest
minds are smo.hered by the confus-
ed tumble of selfish notions
Tine eastern hemisphere is disil
lusioned by the expanding assump-
ton Of that "unselfish" giant from
the west who proposed to make the
world safe for democracy. Now they
feel the inconsistency of the Hands
off OUR side OF the globe, but we will
direct the 'seif- determination of
your side"
And there We stand today-civili-
xation at dissolving heat, and bigotry
piIing on more fuel.
The ways of Providence are past
analysis by finite mind. but we can
conceive that an incident in the af /.
fairs Of single nation might turn
the tendency Of human events; that
an arising Of the real Americanism.
for instance. above the make believe,
would set humanity on its feet again,
We renew our hope from little facts
that seep through the nlter Of cen.
Sorship. and comments by keen OBJ
servers. We select the following from
the Boston Transcript as a sample:
THE World publishes today the
following special despatch from its
Washington correspondent:
Congress a. may :spsct the ea|l for
the President viii probably be on nh
way homo within three weeks.
Important II true is this sisnia.
cant assurance. It evidences the ef.
fects at Paris Of the increasingly
frank expressions on this side of the
Atlantic concerning the PROLONGED
absence from his constitutional post
Of duty Of the head servant Of the
American people and the NEEDLE.
some Matte. policy pursued at the
Peace Conference by him and his
Uubordinates.
yin this connection one sadly SOL
)1n10 thought 10 forced to the fore:
6nnela Auril e. 1917 tn Nnx II 1914