The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-11-12

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when the bodies of the marines
were subsequently brought to New
York for burial the President signified
his intention of leaving Washington.
and riding in the funeral procession
at the City of New York. Some els
quieting rumors reached the Secret
Service officers of an attack that
might be made upon his life. and the
President was urged to cancel his trip
to New York.
When it was found that his deter
mination to go was irrevocable, it was
suggested that he review the process
sion from stand and not take part
in the march along the whole danger
Gus line of the parade. His answer
was a curt refusal to comply with the
suggestion.
zone undertook to argue with him,
saying: You will show all proper re-
speCt by appearing in the reviewing
stand The country cannot afford to
lose It's President His reply was: The
country cannot afford to have a cow
ard for PRESIDENT This was his brief
and final answer. He rode in the pro-
CcsS!On.
81 have seen the great heart of
Woodrow Wilson in action. In con-
sidering appeals for pardon, civil and
military he must uphold the law, but
his heart aches when he has to confirm
the death sentence. And because of
his humanity and his Imagination he
makes all legitimate allowances for
the infirmities of the flesh.
Instances are too numerous for
t.I, haT . n
privileged case that got lot of no.
tUricty in the newspapers; the case of
the American sentries condemned to
death by military law because they
fell asleep at their posts. The Offense
was serious; the law definite and
clearly applicable, that when a sentry
falls asleep at his post, facing a dan
erous enemy the penalty is death.
The President knew the gravity of
the Offense, but he also knew the sim
pie human facts that lay behind the
offense and that these lads, because of
military emergency had not slept for
days
military law may be too rigid. to
take COEniZanCc of these simple, hu-
man considerations, but the President
can. This President did. He knew
that great nature had asserted itself,
that the exhausted laws, under its
spell were helpless H" committed
their sentences.
"Thc very Stcrnnoss of Woodrow
wilson is just the reverse Of his hu
name nature. He hates injustice with
an impla Cnblc hatred. The essence of
tn" German cause was injustice. The
diplomatic history of Europe is a rec
ord of injustice to small and helpless
nations. Nothing was more natural
than that Woodrow Wilson should be-
come the champion of the small ma
lions.
when the die was cast, when the
challenge came from Germany to
America, when the American popular
mind was ready for war, Woodrow
Wilson, the lover of peace Che once
exclaimed at "a critical period in the
negotiations, i have a passion for
peaCeD this same Woodrow Wilson
became the most uncomprOmising ad-
voCate of the most stringent measures
for conducting the war, thereby to has
ten the end of the war, to bring Ger
many to the swiftest possible reckon
49,, to clear the war for "A rearrange-
ment of a concert OF nations on a
basis wherein a permanent peace
could be secured
"Of all the speeches made during
the great war none was more warlike
than the speech which Woodrow Will
son made to the naval officers of the
Atlantic fleet August II, 1917. No
speech by an American statesman ever
compared in audacity with that speech.
Remember what he said to the naval
officers of that fleet?
We are hunting hornets all over
the farm and letting the nest alone.
None of us knows how to go to the
nest and crush it. and yet | despair of
hunting for hornets all over the sea
when | know where the nest is and
know that the nest is breeding hornets
as fast as | can find them. | am will
ing for my part and l know you are
willing, because | know the stuff you
are made of am willing to sacrifice
half the navy. Great Britain and we
together have to crush that nest, be-
cause If we crush it the war is won
1T was he who insisted on the min
ing of the North Sea to cut off the
German hornets inside so that the
hornets could not escape from their