The Washington times., 1920-12-12
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is the strange case of Mr.. Wilson.
In 1912 his entry upon the nigh
political stage of Europe, crowded
then with second rate minds attach
ed to first rate mouths, all exploit
ing to the utmost the Importance
that war gives to fools, was like the
advent of Lohengrin. He came as
the savior and reedemer OF civiliza,,
ton with his fourteen points and
stood for brief time in glory above
Washington, above Lincoln, raising
America to moral eminence that
reduced European alliances to mere
conspiracies of brigands.
The effect was unforgetable. Ger
many capitulated to the inspired
voice and knelt in surrender before
the fourteen points To the amaze
ment and horror OF mankind. MT
Wilson instantly plunged the four
teen points into Germany's bosom
and proceeded to tear the entralls
out of her starving children.
Such tragedy Of fallen angel
such grim comedy of a wolf IN
sleeps clothing, had never before
been enacted on the European stage
That the European allies should
make a scrap of paper of the four
teen points when they had served
their turn was not surprising to
those who had studied history and
knew that it would never even occur
to the victors to acknowledge any
obligation to the vanquished.
MORE TIGERISH THAN TIGER.
But that the sanity Wilson should
be more tigerish than Clemenceau
and more Welsh than Lloyd George
was utterly unexpected, and those OF
us who had backed the President
well knowing how dangerous it is to
back any public man until he Is dead
had to shrug our shoulders and ad-
nit that we had taken the risk and
lost.
To this day nobody over here
knows what really happened to him
We had seen the war fever strike
down men credited with the strong
est heads and scatter their wits III
raving hysteria, but this was wher
the enemy was sinking, burning anc
destroying, when trains full Of hor'
ribly wounded men were daily dis
charging their heartbreaking loads
into Red Cross ambulance cars that
were always waiting in our streets
Now that danger was over anc
Germany PROSTATE, a case OF wal
fever seemed absurdly belated. But
this was not all. On its heels came
the news of amazing prosecutions
under the Wilson regime by A
Mitchell Palmer. They left England
amazed at her own moderation.
The headmaster at Eaton had beer
expelled for remarking that the
question raised by the German con.
troll of the Kiel canal included
British control of the straits of Glib
raltar. But there was nothing like
American sentences of twenty-three
years Imprisonment on Mr.. DebS
for pious remarks and eighteen
years on a factory girl for giving
away "A Washington leaflet, to say
nothing of torturing ordinary mer
in jail solely because they were Rus
slams.
There was nothing except mere
devilment or senseless panic to ex
plain the appearance in America Of
this white terror of Hungary ant
pogroms of Galicia. Recent pro
ceedings in India and Ireland hav,
proved that when the human ANNA
is scared land he is very easily
scared) there is no difference be
tween the eastern and western
varities. He imprisons, shoots, flogs
tortures and outrages like the mac
creature he becomes.
PALMER is ACCUSED.
Such things are normal instances