The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09

structive action, when the world is
crying for help and has been now for
nearly six years since Germany made
its first deadly onslaught against the
peace OF the world?
/ am neither supporter nor de-
fender of President Wilson, did not
vote for him in 1912, 1916. and VIII
not vote for him in 1920, unless forced
to do so by the standpat and obstruc
zionist action of my own party. But
this much he did do He made at
least an honest effort at time when
such effort was both appropriate, con
sistent and imperative. to unite the
nations of the world in an effort TO
prevent future wars. The partisan de-
nunciation of Senator Reed has not
convinced the American people yet
that Mr.. Wilson is not more nearly
right than those who tear down with
out offering anything whatever to take
the place of that which they destroy.
President Wilson is denounced as a
man of visions. Really. Columbus,
who set foot first on this western
hemisphere, was a man with a vision
that the world was round The prac-
tional politicians of the Senator Reed
type ridiculed the Missionaries then as
they do now. Columbus is now en-
shrined in the hearts of men as the
men who did practical things. Jeffer
son was a man of vision. The Decla.
ration of independence was just such
a document as the Senator Reed type
of Tories in the dark days of this
country's dawn in history would hay
denounced as visionary, impractical,
unattainable, impossible. Wasn't that
the outlook Reed held out to us that
night as to future peace? Visionary
impractical, unattainable, impossible
and those working to that end were
fit for the lunatic or imbecile asylums
-or language to that more or less
brilliant effect.
Washington was a visionaire. Lin
coin was a visionaire. Wilson is a
visionaire. Your own Col William
Jennings Bryan is visionaire- ac-
cordng to the Senator Reed standard
set up that night. Washington and
Lincoln are enshrined in the hearts
of their countrymen as the greatest
men of their time-and they were op-
posed and fought and ridiculed by the
Reed type of politicians in their day
as Wilson is in his day. Col. Theo
dOre Roosevelt was visionaire. He
will live in the hearts of the people
when the Senator Reed type of politi-
clans will be FORGOTTEN. Col. Bryan,
out of office, has impressed his vision
airy dreams (according to hard-boiled
politicians) on the people of this
country and has written more of his
ideas for the public good into the
statutes of this land than any other
dozen men, living or dead, in all his
tory
You people of Miami are Missionaries.
Your Carl Fisher is a visionaire. VIVA
would your beautiful city be if it were
not for your men of vision so ridiculed
that night by the hard-boiled senator
from Missouri? What would it be five
years from now but for your men of
vision? 1t is what it is, it is going 10
be the premier city of the south for
northern tourists. because you have
men OF vision in your midst, who built
up instead of tearing down. What we
need in this country today is to place
the hard-boiled politicians in cold
storage and give the men with vision
of world without war an opportunity
70 work out their plans. It may be trea
son to Senator Reed to say this but
there are millions of American men
eeAiN HOhlCH WIZ sIHe Tag dS
scarcely and follow it as deyotedly as
as do the Reeds and Lodges of the
Senate, who the thinking out loud
that sort of thoughts. and they do not
need to wrap the folds of the flag of
our fathers about them to prove their
patriotism
This is too big question to discuss
In one newspaper contribution. / lust
want to call attention to one other
phase of Senator Reeds speech that
ought to set every mother heart won
dering- He opposed in the most siren
uous language the program of prepar-
alton for war as being made by the
army and navy, in one breath and in
the next told us that five kings and
the balance of the world, in fact.
would be against the United States
in any world o0n cfror,a,cx, =.