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Show ReasoasWhy Wilson Should Be Defeated BECAUSE, to cite Eepresentative Fitzgerald,' Democratic Chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the House, during his administration administra-tion the Democratic Congress has been the most extravagant that has ever met in the capital. BECAUSE he insists on his shipping bill an indefensible piece of folly which would destroy such merchant marine as we now have. BECAUSE, although he says "he kept us out of war,",, the story of Mexico, San Domingo and Hayti refutes him. BECAUSE he runs anti-climaxes. He marches in only to march out again. BECAUSE he signed the seamen's bill, which practically has wiped out shipping on the Pacific Coast. BECAUSE he attempted to scuttle from the Philippines and was defeated only by twenty patriotic Democrats who voted with the Bepubli- cans of the House. BECAUSE he appointed as Secretary of State William J. Bryan after denouncing him as a pest who should be "knocked into a cocked hat." BECAUSE he made possible Villa, murderer of men and despoiler of women, and Carranza, the fatuous and futile "First Chief." BECAUSE Wilson's text book statesmanship and gTape-juice diplomacy have made the United States an international .laughing stock. BECAUSE he appointed "deserving Democrats" to the diplomatic corps, displacing experienced men at a time when it was essential to the foreign trade and honor of the United States to retain competent, experienced men. BECAUSE he is incompetent to lead, and veers like a weather vane v.'Tionevor a zephyr of public opinion seems to blow against him. i BECAUSE his "one-track mind" has too many turn-tables, i BECAUSE he lifted the embargo of arms so that the Mexican despe- raoloes have used American ammunition to murder American sol- j diet's n;l civilians. ! BECAUSE tin' promisel ''pitiless publicity" has been replaced by private. speoisi. soctvt negotiations by personal agents and representatives, i anoi.to'o;' !-y l'n-itli'itt Wilson without "the advice and consent of the Senate." BECAUSE he reverses himself so rapidly that the entire country is seasick from '.he motion. BECAUSE he ts for free tni'V. direct taxes and an empty treasurv--ihi' .-i!i;f !! ! Vmoeiv.i to trinity. ; BECAUSE if '.!'.' I'avno-Al.lrieh law had been in operation in the ', In-U nine nwnihs of l:H5 we would have collected S'Jl. 650,161 more ! than we did under the. Umlenvood law. It would have met the ; lrfn.--.irv devils ami hae avoided war taxes. The foreigner scllint: in our i!",ar:,,.; ;rul h: oniitv beitctit of the ?91ffi5(i.l61. " BECAUSE during lb.- first ten months of the Wilson-Underwood law there were n,o.e unemployed being fed by charity than durimr any ten months in our hi-lorv. excepting under the Wilson-Corman Wilson-Corman a -t. BECAUSE of his inconsistomy on t!te immigration hill. In his 'Tlis-i 'Tlis-i to-y of the American IVopW vol. 5. p. :13, he wrote: "The Chi nese were more to be desired as workmen, if not as citizens, than most of the coarse civv that crone crowding in every year at the Eastern ports." BECAUSE he has not reduced, as he promised, the high cost of livin". but has actually made it higher. BECAUSE he was pledged to a single term by the Baltimore convention, conven-tion, but before the type was cold he was building up his fences ' r a uother. "E. although posing as an advocate of civil service, every act of I'tesidcnt in connection with civil service has been adverse to :des. obstructive and destructive of its bonatide practice. |