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Show oo PRESIDENT WILSON'S BIG MISTAKE. The press of the country' continues ( to dwell on the California white slave cases In which President Wilson at ) tempted to shield his attorney gen- eral. The Pittsburg Leader, an independent inde-pendent paper, draws a parallel, in which Tafl and Balhnger and Wilson and McReynolds are shown to be the j same kind of offenders against right I conduct. The Leader says: Taft had his Ballinger, Wilson has I his McReynold6. ft , McReynolds is going to do for Wil-lpon Wil-lpon what Ballinger did for Taft, if f "iVileon doesn't act decisively, and at i once Ijj Wilson Is not displaying any sig-ji sig-ji nals that he Is going to do what he t'i ought to do with McReynolds. any more than Taft did what he ought to ' have done with Ballinger. Ballinger was one of the larger causes of the death of Taft. McReynolds Is going to be one of I the large causes of the end of Wilson, Wil-son, unless Wilson takes prompt steps to save himself. Taft triei desperately to save Ballinger Bal-linger when he should have tossed ) him overboard. Both were drowned j later in a tide of popular anger. .A Wilson Is trying Ju6t as dt-sperately .to save McReynolds when McReynolds McRey-nolds should not be defended, or ! waved, and, as history Is simply rcpe Wtion, Wilson Is going to cling to I McReynolds until both go down un dor another wave of popular anger It is no' a part of the duty of the President of the United States to save any man who furnishes the proofs o' his own unfitness to occupy a high place in th service of the people No President can save a men not worth saving without sharing in the popular penalty In the end the people will punish the guilty man, the unfit man, the j unworthy public servant, and when I that time comes the President who has desperately tried to save such a man will be compelled to suffer a part of the penalty. Taft took his for trying to save Btl-linger. Btl-linger. Wilson, unless he acts differently than he has so far done in the California Cali-fornia case, will be forced to take his punishment for try ing to save McReynolds. McRey-nolds. on |