The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-13

Wilson must be discredited before the
world.
Witness the protest of the Bishop OF
oxford, II. G. Wells. Arthur Hender-
son, Jerome X. jerome and others in
England. Every one of these men
are the sheerest doctrinnaries whose
chief concern, with the possible
exception of the Bishop, is world
revolution. And it is so in this
country. Find a man who is pro
claiming that President Wilsan has
abandoned his principles, and If he is
not a dyed.in -thewool republican parti
san who is simply mounting the charges
of the "internationalists," it will be
found that he is a world ''revolutionist
of one brand or another.
When the first denunciation OF the
treaty and of the President by German
leaders was received in this country.
we expressed the opinion that Mr. Os
wald Garrison Willard and the New York
Nation were caplable of enlisting in the
campaign of Wilson against Wilson"
And 50 it has come to pass. Read what
Mr.. Willard has to say about the Presi
dent in the Nation;
president Wilson stands today dis
credited and condemned. His rhetorical
phrases, torn and faded tinsel of
thought which men now doubt if he
himself ever really believed. will never
again fall with hypnotic charm upon
the ears of eager multitudes. The
camouflage of ethical precept and po
l.; 1, N,.h, ,al, fnt
blinded the eyes of all but the most OBJ
serving has been stripped away, and
the peoples of the world see revealed,
not a friend faithful to the last but an
arrogant autocrat and a compromising
politician"
Mr. Willard. be it understood, thinks
the Soviet Government of the Russian
Bolshevild to be the ideal form and
should be adopted by all the countries
OF the world. He is an "internationalist
and world revolutionist." And all of
his kind, whether |. w. w. or radical
Socialist, see the same task ahead. De
stroy and discredit President Wilson
in the interest of international revolu
tion. Show him to be hypocrte who
has betrayed the masses of the world,
in order that the existing order may be
upset, He and the League of Nations
stand in the way of world anarchy and
so they must be discredited.
And so it has come about that the
President finds himself in the midst of
n cross.fire from various directions. |
The Tories of the Old World, as rep
resented by the London Morning Post
and the Echo de Paris and as en-
bodied by the Italian imperialist. are de-
nouncing him. The Republican politi- |
clans in this country are denouncing |
him. And the "internationalists" every |
where are seeking to destroy him. There
could be no greater proof that the peace |
treaty is what is should be and that the
President has succeeded in making prac-
tical application of his principles, than
the fact that the Germans, the Tories,
the international revolutionists and the |
Republican politicians all join in de-
nouncing him. The Tories call him |
Socialist, the Socialists call him |
bourgeois hypocrite. The imperalists |
denounce him as double-crosser. and |
the Republican politicians call him
everything they can think of. Each has
MS own purposes III uOHlt, tnIS' hiiu
none of them is doing it to promote an
ordered and just peace.
At the proper time, of course, Presi-
dent Wilson,will take up the fight for
the treaty and the covenant. No man
knows better than he that neither is a
perfect document. And no man less
than he expected a perfect document.
But both are such that he can defend
them. The question that naturally
arises, however. is how far these various
interested factions will succeed in dimin-
ishing his influence in the mean time.
We are persuaded that he will weather
the storm and succeed in launching the
world on its new career in spite of the
Germans, the internationalist,s the i'm.
peralists and the Republicans. The Ger
man lie will not conquer the world. The
Allies and the United States will re
main united in the League of Nations
md will force Germany to comply with
he terms whether the Germans attempt
o evade or not.