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Show H MONKEYING WITH EUROPE B In our last issue we said "The more wc B monkey with Europe the more Europe B will want to monkey with us." At that B time we did not know we were hewing B v so close to the written Democratic word. B Since then we happened to run across a B Democratic Campaign Text Book for 1916 B the platform upon which Woodrow Wil- B son was re-elected. On the pages giving B Governor Glynn's speech we find the B following: B "Governor Glynn's speech, sounds party B battle summons"and quotes the governor B as follows: B "The President of the United States Bj stands today where stood the men who B made America and saved America. B ''If Washington was right, if Jefferson B was, right, if Hamilton was rght, if Lin-B Lin-B coin was right, then the President of the B United States is right today. B "And whom, we ask, will the policy of B oui opponents, (Republicans) satisfy and B fox how long? 'Fighting for every de-B de-B gree of in jury wciufu iiieflh perpetual war, B and this is thepolicy of our opponents, B djeny it hpw they will, ttt wbuM not allow B the TJni'ted. States to keep the swprd in j the scabbard as long as there remains an B unrigKtqd wrong or an unsatisfied hope B between the snowy wastes of Siberia irf B the jungled hills Of Borneo. It would make B America as dangerous to itself and' oth-B oth-B ers, as destructive and as uncontrollable B as the cannon of Victor Hugo's tale of '93. B It w;ould give us a war abroad each time B the fighting cock of the European weath-B weath-B er vane shifted with the breeze. It would B make America the cock pit of the world. B It would mean the reversal of our tra-B tra-B ditional policy of government. B It would make all the other nations the B wards of the United States and the Unit-B Unit-B ed States the Keeper of the World. What B would become of the Monroe Doctrine un-B un-B der such a policy? How long do our op-B op-B " ponents suppose we would be allowed to B meddle in European affairs while deny-B deny-B ing Europe the right to meddle in America Ameri-ca can affairs? The policy of our opponents B is a dream. It never could be a possibil-B possibil-B ity. It is not even advanced in good faith. H ' 4- in a Word this policy of our B opponents would mako the United States B the policeman of Europe. Rome, tried to B be policeman of the world' and .weni. B down. Spain tried and went down, and B the United States proposed to profit by B the experience of the ages and avoid am-B am-B bitions whose reward is sorrow and B whose crown is death." B This address was made in defense of H the "He Kept Us Out of War"' slogan, B and against the Re)ublican charge that it B was murderous to have kept out of the B war with Germany so long. It now reads B like thfe speech of one of the men who B has recently been denounced as a "con-B "con-B temptible quitter." Or like one of those B who has been called "pigmv minded." Or BB a "dream of a man living in a forgotten BB age." B . At any rate it is the wavp and woof of BB the American plank of the platform on BB which Woodrow Wilson was reelected. If B there is one thing we like more than an- B other it is to once in a while' take a dose Bc of our own medicine, and if there is one B thing we like better than that, it is to fl rive the other fellow a dose of his own B medicine. ra a ra |