Show WHEELER EL R RAPS Ii t WILSON POLICY I I Correct as Dr Eliot Says That l aL Nation on Has Turned Back on Citizens Special to The New ew York Oct 11 Commenting Commenting upon the recent open letter Jolter of oC Dr Charles t W W. V. V Eliot on the thu th presidential campaign n Everett E P P. Wheeler heeter the tho distinguished dis New York lawyer Jawer and publicist pub pub- heist says in a letter to tho the New Now York Tribune President Elliot In his letter on the I presidential campaign has haM stated ono one I Issue Isue with great groat distinctness He lie says America has now turned Its back backon f on the familiar po policy JI C of ot Rome and Great Britain of ot protecting or avenIng avenging aven ing lag their wandering term cm-term n D a oy force forro of arms and has had set net up a n quite different different differ differ- cn ent Tt T If policy I In I I of t truC her ire own that Wf we hat hap turned r our backs on n thc the policy which t h v. ch was s I that of Rome Home and Great Britain and I IJ I J ma may add ald of France It has na also aleo been I that thal of this country countr Daniel Webster I said when secretary of state I Their duty to Interfere becomes Imperative In cases affecting their own I cl tiT citizens John FIske FIRke put It more strongly i when ho he eald said uA A government touches the lowest est point of or ignominy I when It confesses s s sto to an nn inability to protect the lives and of ot its citizens citizen When U our wandering citizens were captured and their property seized by th thc corsairs or rMon r- r son non said sail In hl his annual m message of To those tholo who ho expect us to tJ calculate calculate late hUe whether a n compliance with unjust unjust un unjust un- un just demands will not cost us less than thana a war wo we must 1 leave n 3 an as n a qui qUestIn of ol calculation for them also whether to retire front from unjust demands will not DOt cost COlt them less than a a. war When our citizens citizen W were Tu captured and taken Into Tripoli Jefferson supplied sup SUf plied hied cash ammunition an and l provisions pro for tor nn an army furnished b by Hamet of I Tripoli and compelled Day Doy of or I Tripoli to make honorable terms with I our nur government o The Tho pope publicly declared declare that America 4 had hall done moro mare for tor Christendom Chris Chris- against Bg t thi than all I tho powers of oC Europe united President lent hot Id Idea a e eins ms to b beto be to adhere moro more closely to the policy pOlle of or I splendid Isolation than some American Ameri Amen can calls o ba advocated nd For m my l tar rl arl I prefer to 1 ay with Uh Emerson The world worM I Iwas was made for or honest trade It is by y I commerce that civilization Is I. isto to It Is ex ox ex- I tended I do not sa say commerce alone i but all aU the benevolent and Christian izing Influences influence nc of missionaries phy- phy hospitals and anil education go 10 hand In hand with commerce and the tho I question for tor the tho American p people to decide Is whether this country lu Iy pro- pro pared to prot protect ct thu of or Its citizens citi citi- zeal zens In foreign n countries or whether It t will ill say Th They have no bu business there we will o leavo them to their fate I |