| Show 99 Says S ys Col Colo Geo Ceo H Harvey vey Noted Ii agim ag- ag I Y Charles harles W. W Eliot President YES f U azine Editor Who Discovered HIm im Emeritus of Harvard Gives Answer I t iW 1 11 Vote ote for Wilson Is a Vote L for Daniels Cries Critic of o Present Administration L 1 I By COL GEORGE HARVEY TAIs neither the p past st nor th the present but the im immediate fut future re r hat should hold held first place in the minds o of American citizens at I h critical time Whether it was the president the Ole kaiser or the Lord who kept us out of war is of little moment The seeming 1 t that whatever likelihood there may have been of our being drawn o ifo ro the great treat conflict no longer exists suffices present Jee needs Js Only i e most host insane partisan would venture re to tp suggest a possibility of ither ther Mr 11 Wilson Vilson or ol- or Mr Hughes inciting or inviting war v r with any l or Asiatic power The fhe two vital questions to be answered the he polls one month hence are Which of the two great parties at atus us is particular juncture in our progress as as a nation is the better quipped Dipped and the more likely to render the highest public service 1 i n nd no d which of the two designated leaders is is the more certain to pr preice pre e ice erve re protect and defend the constitution of the Unit United d States 1 rushing aside as well eJi as we may at such a time all m minor i ia ions we find the overpowering overpower ng issues to be 1 L Military l and industrial preparedness 1 2 Government by and f for r the people 11 4 3 3 National honor and opportunity f r C Credit for the provision of military en enlargement m nt may fa fairly be bep portioned p evenly between the united Opp opposition sItI n which under ljuder the bola ing championship of Mr Roosevelt Roosevel aroused a pu public 1 c sentient sentient sent senti- senti-ent senti ent which Mr 11 Wilson could not afford to ignore and the thc converted itself which finally after losing two precious years creed ced a reluctant congress into actual performance Adequate un nn ds s have been provided at last and the program adopted is pro- pro satisfactory But the mere appropriation of large sums of of money ney does loes not suffice The question now is ono one on of celerity rity and ef- ef JI j I clency in construction I J f I Could ld Josephus Daniels build a great navy in the shortest pos- pos I ible ble e time if he 1 would 1 And n wo would he he if he could 1 These are arc the regnant regnant queries which rise rIse inevitably in In all al thoughtful m minds Jl s at a when speed and skill are tl the e prime requisites That Tha both must answered decisively in the negative is we believe the universal I Mr 11 Daniels has always been and in his heart is today I posed to adequate provision for defense He has done clone everything I this power to pr prevent vent such prosTon proston pro- pro sTon slon from being made never once lung until driven re recently nUy into line republic public opinion to reduce estl estimates ates pigeon hole or distort official and to cripple the service arrogating to him himself elf the power to ate kake innumerable regulations petty In Inh I h but productive of ot infinite tarn Una He nodded s sagely gely folk gallery of the house of r en representatives es athes less th than n two years ago he heals bear his Ms chie chief declare mistakenly as I confessed by b both th words and deeds that we Ve have not been neg Ii gent g rot ot na national defense se and he lolled rf d in the pr presidents president's sneering fI statement since belled belied for political ses that we shall not alter our because some among us are I nou and excited Simultaneously fth lisp lisp- lispin in December 1914 he 1914 he himself this official report was d denouncing lils' lils his mad rivalry in construction as instituting a burden burden too heavy for tor v nation to bear ear Meanwhile he skimping 15 in all directions and pot- pot ring away precious time Not only s b work Kork not yet begun on two battle- battle authorized on March 3 3 1915 but buter L er ere re is grave doubt whether the one lied to the Mare Island yard can be r sent to tow sea un unless leIS leI'S a new change chan chan- ribe ge lobe dredged at a cost of a accommodate a vessel of sUch such draft draft I i tonnage i ius 93 Daniels 1 u Recurring then then to oui our out queries we wewer ewer that Mr h Daniels Danles has neither nor the will to expend ef ef- the great sums sums of mone money to r drawn Ii awn from the people by their ex ex- for Immediate hOnce Once let him realize on on Novem- Novem K 11 li that he is fixed Irrevocably i in hority for another four years ears quid J erslon to to- his early eary an dreal pre pre- will follow obstacle will pre pre-I be I id d upon obstacle dela delay wil wll succeed Your our first line of defense aready y vely ty ly Impaired will be shattered and I navy 1 itself from the highest active I Iral to the humblest sailor will raise Ids d ds to lo high heaven in disgust and I Pair Bair P r. r i and most sinister of ot all aU is 18 the I Vision Vi ion in an the new bill which changes 1 motion by seniority r to promotion selection election That the new method se s e rable to to that which prevailed er r f. f the unpopular plucking board can readily believe That it would I v ye ff advantageous moreover under Direction direction of a 3 capable honorable I. I unbiased secretary is if quite probe e. e e But when one recalls the gross practiced during Curing the past 51 years the persistent demoting I humiliating of officers universally i as the most competent in r. r y the punishing of or dr se s 3 impelled by a sense of duty to to speak the truth the gs g about Admiral Fiskes Fiske's I and the repeated gratify- gratify pf bf t Personal grudges the mere con con- P of or Josephus Daniels being con I I t t td d l with this tremendous power ina in- in a J. J s sfa a feeling little short of horr horrOr r. r n nd w l yet here we are giving gl of our I Ines Jes mes in unstinted measure to inthe inthe in in- I Jibe the protection of our homes homE in I 1 li Laco co of this virtual certainty in lt even een of Mr Wilsons Wilson's re election Daniels continues to be consulted consult d I intimate fashion far so as known still holds his chiefs chief's confidence admiration l he was the prest pres- pres t is ts 8 representative in St. St Louis his fesman esman m in Maine and his apologist 11 Ithe the he result Mr Wilsons Wilson's at a the polls would be his J Jand and the reward of retention could l be denied him after the country v II Ir its with full OJ a ledge e re t that that hat c Crete ote for Wilson Is a Vote aniels i spite the surpassing mental and 1 i j of the new secretary ar r as contrasted with his cole cola col- col e a 6 the army situation Ii is even discouraging than that of the I I While IT i il- well within the theof JM of POSSIbIlity that the president I have llave obtained more promising if lie Inc had bad stood squar squarely by br by his pledge to Secretary Garrison there is much to be said in extenuation of his abrupt reversal of position Undeniably Undeniably Undeniably Un Un- deniably the Democratic m majority in congress was more strongly opposed to th the continental army plan than to any proposal theretofore enforced upon them by the executive It is indeed d doubtful whether their acknowledged acknowledged edged l leader ader unjustly ff abused Mr Hay even vell if he had been willing to tomake tomake tomake make the attempt could have fetched them into line If the president in instead instead instead in- in stead of twisting and squirming and vainly trying to becloud the issue to save his face as master had frankly admitted that he was unable to secure what he thought was best a and atrid d 1 must musE must perforce accept what he could get the country would have held heid him if not I his party blameless But the fateful I compromise followed and the outcome outcome outcome out out- outI I come was the inevitable hodgepodge whose sole merit is a trifling theoretical theoretIcal theoretical ical increase in the regular army army which has not yet been and seems not I likely soon to be realized The plain fact is th that t the armor- armor scheme of federalizing the militia has already proved abortive It is hardly conceivable le that even the huge sums of money allotted to the state organizations only to be squandered squandered squandered dered In profligate fashion as indicated by the records of previous expenditures under the Dick bill submitted with telling force by Senator Borah could have produced so much as a semblance of success But if anything were needed needed needed need need- ed to affix the finality finaly of failure at atthe atthe t the the very outset it quickly in inthe inthe inthe the blundering of the war departments department's cal call calf to arms which convinced every even guardsman sent to the border that he had been tricked ed into an enlistment which he had never Intended to make The immediate e effect is already seen in the Hie impossibility impossibility- of filling militia mitia companies and the ultimate outcome in all al probability will wi be the doom of r the very national guard which the ill i fated fatell measure was designed to exalt and perpetuate G. 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P Has Clean Clen Slate Here then beyond question queston to our mind as the direct consequence of j bootless bootlegs s muddling is the most difficult i I problem confronting the Incoming adI ad ad- ministration And yet et if all the advantage advantage ad ad- I vantage of adequate appropriations al already already already al- al ready obtained Is not to be Sacrificed and all al hope of of true preparedness is not to be abandoned it i must be solved Who can do it Not a Democratic congress surely and not a Democratic president both of whom are committed to the present abortion and would undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly un un- un- un Insist upon a long period of ot futile fute trying out The Republican party part has at least the vantage of a clean slate freedom of action acton Im Immunity Im- Im from prejudice against real federalization of armed forces and the declared opposition of Mr Hughes to the existing makeshift We would not dream of or classing the present secretary of war or anybody else for that matter with wih Josephus Dat Daniels Moreover we have a high opinion of 11 Mr Bal Bakers Baker's ers Intellectual and administrative qualifications and are convinced of his openness of mind Already Al Already Al- Al read ready we are informed he frankly avows Jils Is error in depicting prior to his appointment the officers rs of the army army as a a bunch of snobs snobs' and now with pride his admiration admira admira- acknowledges 1 tion of the most loyal and most faithful faith falth- I ful ton of or men passionately devoted to their I country But Mr Baker Daker is a pronounced pronounced pro pro- pacifist and as such so so far faras faras faras as is known is no less Jess strongly opposed op opposed opposed op- op posed to the agitation for preparedness preparedness' prepare prepared prepared- ness' ness than when he refused to cooperate co- co cooperate oper co ate oper-ate with the National Security league So wih too at bottom is the Democratic enthusiastic cheers only whose party to that for sentiments in n St St. Louis were effect expressed by Mr 11 Glynn Gynn and Mr himself the president Bryan Where will stand when these lines shall appear ap appear appear ap- ap wi pear we cannot say At this writing writing- yesterday 1 but no that was tt hether on one on It all resolves to this approver I al or disapproves of the he huge lingo huges approves approvEs national de- de provided for tor expenditures s nano have been tense e the he appropriations tons I |
