Show PEACE WITHOUT HONOR HONORM I M MR R. R WILSONS WILSON'S eagerness to avoid I war w r was admittedly In response to public demand Sentiment In this countr country r is to firmly opposed to It That eagerness ss as bunglingly Interpreted and expressed by the tho President has slowly but none the less surely de ded defeated de- de d Its ts own ends We Ye have been drifting towards toward war while seeking to retreat from It Mr Wilsons Wilson's lofty vague ague altruism was unsuited to a arld world trembling trembling- from the shock of ot b battle and echoing to the tread of ot armed men It was was Impractical and visionary more fitted for tor tho the secluded I ed d cloister of ot the university from I which the tho President but recently emerged than for tor tho the arena of ot active affairs Colonel Roosevelt's Roosevelt famous phrase speak softly but carry a big stick depicts the more effective method of ot securing peace with honor Mr Ir Wil Wilson son son not only spoke softly but his were cloying with a a. mellow sweetness and both hands were con- con it upraised th that t the world might ie e he carried no stick sUck Not only onh was he careful to explain he wore no chip on his shoulder but he carefully unguarded unguarded un un- un- un guarded himself BO so that an interns interns- bully might learn It was en- en eca r t- t 1 F. F LI I Urel safe to strike him and he turned out his pockets that It might bo ho plain he horo boro no weapons Tho results of or that policy wo vo arc are beginning to reap We Wo mn may escape from tho the Incident In peace but It now seems certain that we cannot cannot cannot can can- not do so with honor Since It re requires requires ro- ro quires two or more to malre malce a a. war It may be that we shall shaH be bo spared the j horrors of It but our method of ot extrication extrication extrication ex ex- will be he something tho the present generation will hope speedily to forget and to conceal from its successors Firmness at the outset of or this war war- would have havo avoided that we now con con- con contemplate template with such horror Our neutrality nou- nou would have been as plain and assured had there been less Jess talk of or peace and more of or Insistence upon American rights We Ve prattled of ot our defenselessness until the world began to believe bellevo It President Wilson de deserves enos tho the s sympathy sympathy sym sym- m pathy and support of or over every American in this trying time Grave Gra responsibilities responsibilities press upon him and even he heb heby heby b by now must be wondering whether a R different tone tono towards the belligerents from rom the beginning might not have ha decreased his embarrassment ment He is confronted with the alternative that man many foresaw when he declined to to recognize the war 31 zone zono established by German Germany an and warned that nation against destroying American lives and property Ho He must either hold hoM the German government to that strict accountability accountability ac nc- ac- ac ho he threatened or he must recede while tho the world Jeers and Germany prepares to smite us upon tho the other cheek check The war he has sought to avoid Is olo closer er now than ever before an and only because he has convinced German Germany that tho the United States Is but another China or Belgium Belgium Bel- Bel gium glum to be Insulted and harassed with Impunity |