Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-09


muir Profits
What Must BE Done
"In our world problems we
must either shut our eyes, sell
our newly built merchant marine
10 more far-seeing foreign pow
ers. crush utterly by embargo and
harassing legislation orr foreign
trade, close our ports and build an
impregnable wall of costly arma-
monts and live. as the Orient used
to live, hermit nation, dreaming
of the past; or. we must open our
eyes and see that modern ciyiliZa-
ton has become so complex and
the lives OF civilized men so inter-
woven with tho lives of other men
in other countries as 10 make il
impossible TO be in this world and
not of il. We must see that it is
impossible TO avoid except by mon
astic seclusion those honorable
and intimate foreign relations
which the fearful-hearted shud-
deringly miscall by that Devils
catchword international Compli-
cations
"As for our home problem, we
have been awakened by this war
into a startled realization of the
archaic shortcomings OF our gov
ernmental machinery and of the
need for the kind of re-organiza-
ton which only clear thinking
business man, experienced in the
technicalities Of governmental pro-
cednre can carry out. Such man
we have. One who has so sue
cessiully reformed the business
management of his own great
State is obviously capable of do
ing greater things. This is no
time TO experiment with Inen who
believe that their party can do no
wrong and that what is good for
the selfish interests of political
party is of necessity good for the
nation as we'll | as a citizen be-
lieve that this year we should
choose as President a proved OK
ecutive We need to do things;
not TO. talk about them.
Good Amcrlcanlsm
Much has been said cf late
about good Americanism, 1t is
right that it should have been said.
and it is right that every chance
should be sliced to repeat The
basic truths underlying our pros
perity and our national existence
itself. But it would be an un-
usual and much to be wished for
thing if in the coming presenta-
ton of tho issues a new note of
fairness and generosity could be
struck. Littleness, meanness,
falsohood. extreme partizanship
these are not in accord with
American spirit. | like to think
that in this respect also we are
moving forward.
Ideal That Shall Not Die
Even as the nation entered the
war for an ideal, SO il has emerged
from the war with the determina-
tion that the ideal shall not die
1t is idle to pretend that the War
Declaration of April 9Th, 1917, was
mere act of self-defense, or that
the object Of our participation was
solely to defeat the military power
of the Central Nations of Europe
We knew them as nation, even
as we know today that success on
land and sea could be but half
victory. The other half is not won
yet. To the cry of the French at
vcrdun: They shall not pass;
the cheer of our own men in the
Argonne: We shall go through
we must add this, 1t shall not
occur again. This is the positive
declaration of orr own wills; that
the world shall be saved from a
repetition of this crime.
Peace Must Include League
ITO this end the Democratic
party offers Treaty of Peace.
which, to make ii a real treaty for
a real peace MUST include a
League of Nations; because this
peace treaty, if our best and bray-
est are not to have died in vain,
must be no thinly disguised armis-
tice devised by cynical statesmen
to mask their preparations for a
renewal of greed-inspired con-
quests later on. Peace must
mean peace that will last. A prac-
teal. workable, permanent, en-
forceable kind of peace that will
hold as tightly as the business
contracts of the individual. We
must indeed be, above all things,
business like and practical in this
peace treaty making business of
ours. The League of Nations is a
practical solution of a practical
situation. 1t is no more perfect
than our original Constitution,
which has been amended is times
and win soon we hope be amended
the 18th, was perfect. Ii is not