New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-12-12
WILSONVILLE-SHALL
WE BE SIDETRACkED
Mr.. Gerald Stanley Lee,
Care OF Saturday Evening Post.

2 "WilsOnyille.
While you adroitly proclaim that
you don't like" the subject OF your
discussion, you proceed Immediately
to prove that the mouse must 60 to
the mountain, and that Wilson is the
mountain-so big that his head is
always above the clouds
To catch our sympathy and make
us see the bigness of this man you
proceed to tell us that Lancolnville,
a village OF 90 years agone, was made
by our fathers and Lincoln could not
help himself. Did he try?
Ihe personal pronoun 81" was not
used single time by Lincoln in his
famous address at Gettysburg bat
was used eleven times in the con-
Guiding paragraph of President vii
sons Decoration Day address in
France You say Wilson is not pos
ing to posterity What else do you
call it2 You say you feel confident
that II Lincoln were alive today he
would not peter out into a mere Re-
publican Do you wish by that for
us to infer that your dol is not
mere Democrat? Doesn't he take
full credit for his party winning the
war? Didn't he fear the election of
Republican Congress would be giving
sympathy TO Germany? Can you
name a single president since Jack
son who has been as partisan in every
particular as Wilson?
Another reason why you think we
ought to go to Wilsonville is because
you believe the nation should get
used to his lofty vision, and yet you
add that you are not sure his vision
IS spiritual one. What do you say
OF his vision when he asked Congress
to permit the use OF beer and wines
in face of the fact that 40 states had
ratified national prohibition while
he was soiourning in a far country
Would YOU call that spiritual vi
sion2
But again referring to this vision
bus ness, what kind of a vision was
it he had when he refused to defend
our national honor at the time the
Lusitania was sunk? Have you for
gotten what he said at Des Moines
on February l, 1915, a year and
half after the war started? Wtll,
here is the vision he had then:
There are actually men in America
who are preaching war, who are
preaching the duty OF the United
States to do what IL never would be-
fore-seck entaglements IN the con
troyersies which have arisen on the
other side of the water-abandon its
habitual and traditional policy, and
deliberately engage IN the conflict
which IS now engulfing the rest OF
the world. ] do not know what the
stardard of citizenship Of these gen
ilemen NAV b.. ! only know that
for one, cannot subscribe 10 those
standards
What kind Of a vision was II he
had when he incorporated General
Smut's DO nts as his own?
You seem TO think that Borah and
Johnson and Lodge have no vision
because.they think like the people of
Idaho or California or Boston Isn't
it just possible that the people OF
Idaho and California and Boston were
not too proud TO tight, and are
Americans with just as keen a sense
OF just ce as one who would see him
sell on a bookshelf with twenty
volumes entitled, How saved the
world to Democracy ?"
You call on our 100000 people
TO view the 40 nations at oar tee'
praying tor protection, and yet we
know that Wilson signed away the
rights of over JOOUU00 OF Chinese.
writing this section Of the treaty
n msclf over the protest of the other
American delegates. No decent Amer
lean blames the Chinese delegates