| Show Selected Editorials From FromI I Le Leading ding Newspapers ALL AMERICAN OR H HALF LF ALIEN New ew York woOd The United States cannot exist halt half American and halt half alien Nor can it exist if its elections are to be decided decided decided de de- de- de by organized groups o oA of t foreign reign sympathizers All other issues of the campaign I are trivial and incidental as comI compared compared com com- pared with this When It is possible ossi ble for fora a president resident of the United united I States to be be menaced with defeat because because be be- cause his foreign policies displease Germany or any other foreign country country country coun coun- I try the American people are standing standing standing stand- stand ing on the edge of ot a precipice and andi j i the less Jess they perceive their danger the greater that dan danger er is President Wilson performed a high public service when he bluntly informed informed informed in in- formed the agent of the so 50 called American Truth society that I would feel deeply mortified to h have ve you or anybody like you vote for tor me Since you have access access ac ae- ac- ac cess to many disloyal Americans and I have not I will ask you to convey this message to them The Amy Am American rican scan Truth society is an annex of th the German propaganda andis and andIs Is employed to influence Irish opinion on the side ide of Germany Like Like the Germa German American alliance amance It has been violently against the United States government In every diplomatic diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic controversy with the German empire since the war began To describe It as disloyal Is to speak moderately and and- conservatively yet It Is one of the active agencies by which the Republican campaign managers managers managers man man- agers hope to defeat President Wil wn- son It is one of the active agencies whose support Hughes invites and en en- The German drive against the president president president dent Is the most sinister development nt of American political life me since sion Mon In the earlier stages a pretense was made that this organized German German Getman Ger Get man opposition to the administration was due to the presidents president's failure to protect American rights That mask was long tong ago dropped The German leaders are now fighting the president resident as an an enemy of Germany to to use the language of f the Illinois S Staats which exults in the fact tact that Hughes' Hughes Peoria speech was intended for the benefit of citizens of German descent whom the Ule Democratic yellow press has attempted to alarm THE COSt COSi OF ZEPPELIN RAIDS New York Sun It will be surprising If there is not nota a suspension of Zeppelin In England Three o of the great airships have been brought down b bj- bj gunfire In seven days the crews of two have met meta a terrible death and the crew of the third was captured The German government government government gov gov- should be be convinced b by this time that Zeppelin warfare does not pay The Germans have been Industriously industriously industriously indus Indus- building Zeppelins at great ex expense expense expense ex- ex pense but they cannot afford to lose loser an airship a week Four have been destroyed de- de I in as many weeks No longer can the efficiency of the London de defenses de- de r tenses In high angle guns and scouting aeroplanes be doubted Zeppelin service service service ser ser- I de-I vice has become becom unexpectedly deadly and the danger is one that the bravest of men re recon recoil from If f. f the capital Is I not vulnerable it would seem hardly worth while to keep up the fiction that something o of military value was was being accomplished on English soil soli by the air all raiders OLD PARTIES AT THE BAR San Francisco Bulletin The value of at political parties or organized orr on the th American plan is being put to a a. severe examination this fall all Of ot course there will be parties wherever wherever wherever ever there are differences of ot opinion The question Is whether the American type of off party has not tended to shift the emphasis from opinions to organization I so BO that we now have two great parties partie whose differences of opinion are no not sufficient to excuse their existence existence existence exis exis- tence and which do not In fact represent represent represent sent the great split in opinion which cuts across the country Whatever life lite has as been injected into the present campaign aside from that vivacity which comes from a passionate desire to hold office and share spoils has been almost all accidental and unexpected It was ya an accident which placed Woodrow Wilson In the chair during the European war nar and thus hu made his party a defender of the new I neutral policies it was an accident which consigned Mexico to lo Wilsons Wilson's supervision It was an accident which placed the railroad strike before him for settlement The independent voter who Is the tho political boss of the country will vote for or against Wilson on Wilsons Wilson's record rather than for or against the Democratic party on the party's record v HE KEPT US OUT OF WAR Chicago Tribune For the prayerful consideration of ot such Americans as favor Wilsons Wilson's re reelection reelection reelection re- re election on the theory that he kept us out of ot war we commend an article In the Temps of Paris summarized inThe in inThe inThe The Tribune of yesterday It is a sharp reminder that we have not yet paid for Wilsons Wilson's Mexican l peace but that before very long the bills w U begin to come Lome in And they will have able bodied and determined collectors lectors to present them At that time it will be discovered that rhetoric is not legal tender The Temps which is the most authoritative journal In France re remarks remarks remarks re- re marks that Mexican anarchy is placIng placing placing ing in danger Fr French Investments of six hundred millions of ot dollars donars by the arbitrary acts of the Carranza government government govern govern- ment Now Wilsons Wilson's theory about foreign investors in Mexico Is that they were exploiting e the Mexican people and therefore neither In their bodies nor their investments are worthy of re respect respect respect re- re or prote protection We wish to warn the admirers of Wilsons Wilson's policy of keeping us out of at war that this theory has no indorsement indorsement indorsement indorse indorse- ment in Paris London Berlin Petrograd Petrograd Petro- Petro grad Tokio or any other seat of powerful powerful pow- pow I erful erful government |
