Weekly journal-miner., 1920-03-24
FEW REDEEMING FEATURES FOR
 WILSON
Special Correspondence.

WASf1INGI ION, MarCh lO. ne Republican Publicity Association, through its President, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, IT,, today gave out the follow ing statement from its Washington Headquarters:
 He who will take the trouble to review the more important incidents in the history of the United States during the past seven years must wonder upon what basis any Demo- crat can still look to Woodrow Will son as leader.
 The first act of the Wilson admin istration was the enactment of a tariff law which repudiated the principle of protection, and the country was assured that there would be no injury to legitimate industry. During the period of ten months that law was in effect prior to the war, our imports increased and our exports decreased to such an extent as to make a difference of $260,000,000 in our balance of trade. America was losing $26,000,000 a month ill world trade. American mills and factories were closing and there was an army of 100000 unemployed looking for work. Only the outbreak of war shut off imports and restored our trade
 Without any adequate reason President Wilson surrendered to some unnamed power for some un- known reason the right of the United States to grant free tolls to American coast-wise traffic through the Panama Canal. The argument that this would be discriminatory is untenable for the reason that foreign ships were not admitted to our coast-wise trade.
 Although pledged to economy and to a reduction of the number of government employees, as well as to the maintenance of the competitive test in appointments, the Wilson ad- ministration increased the payrolls, ignored the Classified Civil Service rules wherever possible, and increas- ed expenditures.
 With nearly all the rest of the world at war and with Germany beginning aggressions against the United States Mir. Wilson denounced as nervous and excited those who urged preparedness. He dismissed from his cabinet a Secretary of War who believed in military preparation, and placed a pronounced pacihst in that important position. After the sinking of the Lusitania he proclaim ed the United States too proud to fight and on the eve of our entrance into the war he demanded peace without victory
 By proclaiming 'watchful waiting as his policy in Mexican difficulties Mir. Wilson invited the insults and injuries suffered by this nation and its people. By his repeated yielding to Mexican diplomats, he acknowledg ed their superiority in the arts of international diplomacy. He invaded Mexico only to retreat i'll ignominy; he made threats only to ignore them to the humiliation of his countrymen.
 By his utterances and his acts heI encouraged that socialistic and pater- nalistic movement which undertook government operation of the rail- roads, telephone and telegraph lines, and the ocean cables, and had its check only when in its natural de- velopment it produced the Plumb Plan for a government bond issue to buy the railroads and turn them over to the employees to operate By his interference ill behalf of anarchist Mooney and l. w. w. murderer Hillstrom, and by his as surances to the bolsheyists of Russia, he pandercd to the lawlcss element of this and other lands.
 50 far as he had the power and he stranglcd individual discouraged private enter prise, and approved policies that tend ed to decreased quantity and higher cost of production. He kept the people ignorant of their public af- fairs, undertook to usurp legislative vacillated on every inter est.
 Was there ever a record so utterly devoid of redeeming features"