Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1920-10-15

the war, proposes that this country
take no share in the burden of secur-
ing the fruits of the war, and ad-
vises the American people to LOOK
first to the maintenance Of their own
independence and the security Of
their own property, and to renounce
all sense of obligation to the other
free nations which were associated
with America in the conduct Of the
war against Germany. The party has
turned its back on its own principles
of 1850 and 1918. This deplorable
change of front is deep modification
and distress to all patriotic Ameri-
cans, republican or democratic, and
particularly to those who remember
the political ideals which the re-
publican party was founded to con-
tend for. and which led 1t to glorious
victories. Within the memory of liv-
ing men no political party in this
country has suffered so crushing a
catastrophe Habftual republicans
may we'll consider how this d3wnfall
is to be remedied. Surely not by put
ting the country into the hands Of the
very men who have led the party into
its present plight.
The League provides the means of
carrying out the provisions of the
treaty. and throughout the treaty the
league appears as the Indispensable
instrument for executing, and also
for modifying the terms Of, the cove
nant and treaty, as occasion may re-
quire. That the covenant and treaty
together contain the means Of abolish
ing secret treaties and understand
ings, of reducing ornaments, and
curbing nations inclined to attack
their neighbors or to cause danger
GUS friction in International dealings
is due to President Wilson and to the
influence of his Ideals on the govern
ments and peoples Of Europe.
DIR. Eliot, says a good parallel to the
criticism OF Wilson and his admins
tration is to be found in the Aurora,
paper published in Philadelphia in
1897 and the following sentences were
published a few days before Washing
ton retired from the presidency:
II ever nation was debauched by a
man. the American nation has been de-
bauched by Washington; II ever a
nation was deceived by man, the
, American nation has been deceived by
Washington.
A few days later, an anonymous
correspondent of the Aurora wrote as
follows:
When a retrospect is taken of the
Washington administration for eight
years, it is a subject Of the greatest
establishment that single indiviA-
ual should have conquered the prin-
ciples of republicanism in an enligh-
tened people just emerging from the
gulf of despotism, and should have
carried his designs against the public
liberty so far as to have put in jeop-
ardy it's very existence.
The Public Ledger's criticisms Of
wisconsin" this summer are as
wrong headed as those of the Aurora
against Washington. but they do not
transcend in stupidity and irrelevancy
the epithets which the republican
official documents and the speeches OF
republican orators now apply to
President Wilson. Here is an incOm-
plete group of those epithets--auto-
crat, usurper, despot, dictator, hypo-
critic, phrasemaker, obstinate, Utop-
ian, deceitful, insinccre, narrow
gagged and meanly jealous of friends
and foes alike. May all thoughtful
and open-minded voters keep these
epithets in mind this fall! The recol-
whether they will aid to put the men