The Taney County republican., 1920-05-06
STAND BY The President"

Stand BY The President"
The average American citizen has a
natural tendency to respect and trust
the administration which majority Of
his fellow. citizens place in control oi
the federal government, even though
he himself may not belong TO that ma
joriiy. Once elected, the president
becomes to a certain extent dissocia-
ted in his mind from the party which
elected him, the leader not only Of
democrats or republicans but oil the
whole American people. He is in.
clined, even in partisan controversies ,
to give the president the benefit Of the
doubt. Stand by the PRESIDENT" is
slogan that has a firm hold on the
American people.
The remarkable operations oi the
mind OF the Wilson administration
affected the average American strange
". The citizen who liked logic and
consistency in the conduct oil public
affairs watched the performance with
the dizzy sensations Of a recruit in the
midst Of an aviation test. He heard
the administration call on the very in.
iants to help win the war" and refuse
participation to human dynamo worth
an army 10 himself; he heard it preach
democracy until men wearied oi the
word, and practice autocracy as ruth
lessly as czar; preach cooperation
and refuse 10 cooperate; appeal Tor
publicity and clear thinking and govern
by smoke screen or by Aladdin's lamp.
He heard the administration ask for a
vote oil confidence and proclaim Its in
tention to abide by the popular verdict;
he saw the vote oil confidence refused
by the people and heard the admins
,ration declare that it had the country
at it, back.
The American Of the old traditions
felt his head reel At the bewildering
Welter ol insincerities and contradic'
lions and iridesceni nebulosities thru
which the administration seemed TO
dodge back and forth like creased
pig, too swift and slippery for human
hands to clutch. He saw it reprove
Japan in an ultimatum that implied war,
and without delay. concur in Japan
desire; he saw it defend China In words
and be,ray her in action; he saw 1t gc
to war with Russia, a power with which
it declared itself to be at peace, and
petulantly insist on making peace with
Bulgaria, a power with which we had
never been at war, He heard i
preach open diplomacy with the al
Of Adam discovering virtue, and saw i
practice the ancient ways Of Mschi
avelli in a manner az unasbamed as ]
was inept. In America he heard |
prophesying world disaster II a com
ma Of its treaty we're removedI II
France, he heard the same voice suav
vely rejoicing over the changes "whicl
the publication Of the treaty had so for
.unately brot FORTH"
He saw the administration shake II
finger at labor and, behind a screel
Of many words, yield to its demands
he saw it shake its fst at the profit
eers, and behind wall Of neWspape
headlines leave them unhampered /
exact the last drop Of blood; he sav
1. Aattsr the public with unctuou
phases and quietly throw it to tn
wolves, since 1t possessed no organiz'
ton which needed to be propiha
ed. He heard itpreaeh law and orde
and even while it famed the flames
anarchy he saw 1t turn and annihila'
the deluded anarchist. All this t
heard and saw, bathed in an atmosphel
Of moonshine and Sweet-Six.een'abou