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Show I SECRECY MUST GIVE WAY TO PUBLICITY "Plaintive, querulous note " That is the definition of WoodrOW Wilson's 1 complaint sounded at the services in : honor of the bluejackets killed at i Vera Cruz, as given by Mark Sulli i an in Collier s Weekly, who. in B review of the proceedings of con I gress, says: '"One clear responsibility is laid upon President W ilson If the efforts At mediation fall, if we have to ro into Mexico with an armed force, the President must take the whole country coun-try fully into his confidence with respect re-spect to what he has done and has sought to do in Mexico since his ad ministration began. There has been no disposition to force his hand Mr Wilson's reticence on public affairs has been one of the marked features of his administration He has had 1 public confidence and public support to a notable degree in his handling of the Mexican problem. This confidence confi-dence has manifested itself in an extraordinary ex-traordinary patience The President has no ground for the complaint he voiced at the ceremonies in honor of the bluejackets killed at Vera Cruz. Tint plaintive, querulous note had no justification. The President, if he could only realize it, has been much favored by popular seutiment His ways have never been obstructed or criticized to their hurt 1n congress, or out of it In effect, he has had a free hand. If anything in the whole I business is clear, it is that whatever what-ever the outcome, the whole responsibility, respon-sibility, the whole credit, or the whole discredit attaches to the person of Woodrow Wilson. It is proper that it should At the very beginning of j the enterprise, when there were man-! ifestations of restlessness in congress j and of partisan debate President Wil ; ! son asked that discussion In both ! branches of congress be within Id This request was made to the whole J membership. regardless of party, and was granted. Congress refrained, refrain-ed, irtually without exception, from criticizing or questioning the acts of the executive. But if conflict comes, it is the right of the country to know all the facts; whether the business has been managed well or badly; whether the call to arms is justlfi able or unjustifiable.'' rw, |