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the distressing discovery
that the populace was al
most as ignorant Of foreign
affairs as the Democrats.
He had intended to make
a great play with Mr.. Will
sons cravenly pacific atti-
tude toward Mexico; with a
real wale raging terribly in
Europe, however, it seemed
that peace had actually be-
come popular.
L was told" as he later wrote
to his friend, Mr.. Roosevelt, that
it would not do to attack the Ad-
ministration on Mexico because
people felt generally that Wilson
had kept us out of war. That
statement had upon me the same
irritating effect that it evidently
had on you"
COL. POOSEVELTS unhappi-
~ ness was deepening. Those
fires of social reform which he
had incautiously set alight in 1912
were already burning very low in
his own breast.
In their place there ragged an
ever more consuming personal
hatred of Woodrow Wilson, the
man who had so loftily profited by
them. and T. r. yearned to ma
neuver himself back upon the firm
platform of orthodox Republican,
ism. from which alone it would be
possible to deliver an effective at
tack upon the "schoolmaSter.'
Mr.. Roosevelt transformed
through half a dozen states that
fall. campaigning for Progressive
candidates. But as he went, chat
ing under his inability to asSail
Mr.. Wilson's pacifism, the rOarS of
a far greater battle were constant
ly in the ears of that lifelong
miIitariSt.
AS The autumn days shortened
toward that first winter of the
war, Mr.. H. P. Dawson, a leading
partner in the great House of
Morgan. was distressed to observe
the "helter skelter and at times
almost frantic" fashion in which
different Allied purchasing agen-
cies were bidding against each
other in the American markets.
At once Mr.. Dawson perceived it
to be the Morgan company'S pa
triotic duty to undertake the pur-
chasing job for itself, thus rescu-
ing American industry from the
decentralization" of too sudden
wealth.
On Nov 26 he sailed to lay his
inspiration before the British gov
eminent.
THERE were many other
l. American bankers. manufac-
turers and promoters who dis
cerned the opportunities for high
land highly profitable) service to
humanity and the Entente held
out by the immense scale of the
new warfare.
Nor was it solely a matter of
food and raw material, even in
those early days. In September
Ambassador Bernstorff had heard
of a French military mission at
Bethlehem Steel Works happy
nameD, and by early November
its head, Mr.. Charles M. Schwab,
was climbing stairs in "evilly
lighted" London offices, arranging
fat contracts for war munitions.
AS early as Aug. % Rep. Tow
ner of Iowa, speaking on the floor
of Congress. had clearly foreseen
the danger.
To ship food and clothing" to
the Allies. he had warned his
country, was Ito aid them in their
great struggle with Germany and
Austria" At best we would be
fortunate if we could avoid being
drawn into the war; but to en-
courage even commercial exports
to one side, when the other was
debarred from our markets, would
be Ito invite our own entangle-
ment.
His fate was that of other Cas-
sandraS; few saw the relationship
between these lucrative new mar
kets and our own neutrality. and
the Allies commercial purchases
mounted rapidly. The sale of
munitions, however. waS another
matter. When Congress con-
vened in December, it was to meet
a flood of bills calling for an en-
barge upon the export of NUM-
tions.
THE leading bill was introduced
Il by Senator Hitchcock of Ne
braSka. pillar of the Democratic
majority. Unfortunately the move
ment was presented as one of hui
manita-ian idealiSm. rather than
as a severely practical way of pre-
serving the United States from in
Movement in the war
Even more unfortunately. it at
once enlisted the enthusiastic sup
port of the pro-German minority.
They plunged into a propaganda
campaign which made it only too
easy to discredit the whole idea
as mere Teutonic treachery; be-
sides, the sale of munitions was
lucrative.
Even so Spring Rice. always nerv-
Gus. took instant alarm. On Dec.
% he "unoficially" suggested that
the Hitchcock bill would be spe
cial legislation passed while war is
in progress making a radical de-
parture from q long-establiShed
custom" and so definitely ''un-
neutral act