The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-09-03
AMER I "A TIRED OF
WARS AND AGITATORS


wherever the issue has been joined
Of those groups whose purpose is to
take unto themselves what other mer
have earned.
The variegated Socialists, the syn.
dicalist labor wing, the rowdy |. w
w. mob and the sour-brained advo-
Gates of bolshevism-what lot OF
threats they uttered toward their
American opponents.
They were going to beat Henry
Allen because he prevented the law
less mining crowd in Kansas from
freezing the people of his State. But
Allen was renominated by the major
ity that his fine courage deserved.
They were going to beat Senator
Cummins of Iowa, one of the authors
Of the new railroad law, because he
opposed the Plumb Plan, that scheme
which has not even the virtues of
communism in that it would confiscate
in favor Of a group rather than a
people. But Cummins has been re-
nominated and probably will be re-
elected, as his service merits.
They were going to see that Rep
resentative Thetus Sims of Tennessee
went back to the House to continue
his activities in behalf of the Plumb
Plan, of which he was the sponsor at
the Capitol. But the Democrats OF
the Eighth Tennessee district refused
to renominate this hero of the crew
that sees progress only in peculation.
And in Ohio the only Republican Rep
resentative defeated for denomination
last week was the only Ohio Republi-
can in the House who voted against
the Esch- Cummins railroad BILL
New York Sun.
In the interview given Eye Wit
ness by Governor Cox the Demo-
cratic candidate says: "They (the
people), are weary of wars and
thinking of wars They are tired of
looking backward and of trying to
solve the past and it's problems" I"
In this Governor Cox speaks not
like a statesman but as a politician.
What is the object of an assertion
which is uncontested in so far as it is
true and for the rest obviously un-
true?
1.-THE people are weary of wars and
thinking of wars" says Governor Cox.
The people are also weary of disease,
of too much labor, of injustice. The
people have never been otherwise
than weary of wars except when they
were willing to make war. Europe is
full of people who are weary of war
in the abstract doubtless, but who are
not so weary but that they are MAX
ing war and thinking more war. And
the American people, though they
may be weary of wars and of think
ing of wars, would tomorrow think of
war and make war if an occasion
they deemed sufficient offered, such as
the sinking Of the Maine.
Governor Cox's remark is simply a
playing to the mood of reaction which
in America has naturally and inevi-
tably followed the effort and sacrifice
of a war. 1t is doubtless good politics,
but it is not patriotic craftsmanship.
The American people are not military
or enthusiastically inclined. On the
contrary, they went into the late war
with considerable doubt and reluct-
ance, and they want to be rid of all
it's consequences and free to follow
their fortunate and peaceful exist
ence as soon as possible. So they are
weary of thinking of wars.
But being weary of thinking does
not dispose Of the duty or desirability
of thinking. Politicians, not only of
Governor Cox's persuasion, but, we
are sorry to say, of the Republican
also, have been quick to follow the
popular mood. BY so doing they ex-
plot human weakness instead of
protecting the people from it.
Being weary of the sacrifices and
penalties of wars does not prevent
wars, nor does being weary of think
ing of wars justify not thinking of
wars. We do not enjoy thinking of
cancer or tuberculosis, of tempest,
drought, famine, pestilence, or sud
den death. We are weary of all the
evils Of life, but the statesman or in
dividual who allows his distaste OF
them to lure him into refusing to
think of them or trying to make pro-
vision for dealing with them is not
acting with common sense or in the
true interest of his country or him.
Tribune.
LAS SOON AS" POLICY
1t is reported that as soon as the
Polish situation has cleared somewhat
the Washington government will an
nouncc, its policy towards Mexico,
which will include recognition Of the
present regime and an insistence upon
guarantees for American lives and
property. Wonder if it is to be the
same sort of "insistence" that has
our relations with