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Show JUDGE LOVETT, II. P. HEAD, DECLARES FOR PRES. WILSON "We All Make Mistakes," He Says; "Men Must Be Judged by the Average of Achievement Not by One Act Out of Many Which Go to Make Up a Notable Career"; Takes Hard Rap at German-Americans. , New York, Oct. 11 Robert S, Lovett, head of the Union Pacific Railway Rail-way system, being asked by a reporter report-er on the New York Times for a state ment 6f his attitude In the presidential presiden-tial campaign, prepared the following: "Notwithstanding his action in the eight-hour day controversy, r am for Wilson. That was a mistake and a serious one. But we all make mistakes. mis-takes. Men must be jujlged by the average of achievement not by ono act out of many which go to make up a notable career. My firm conviction is that Wilson has made more really I great achievements to his credit than most presidents who have preceded him. "I am not propared to believe that business men are lacking in apprecia. tion of what he has done for business. True, he has not taken us back to the days of Mark Hanna, to which soma seem to think we will return if he is defeated. But he has given us business busi-ness peace and an open field for a fair fight. He has substituted the law as a rule of conduct for 'government by executive order' and presidential favoritism; fa-voritism; and the 'undesirable citizen' citi-zen' has had the same show as the most influential group or the biggest campaign contributor. No special dis-pensations dis-pensations to form trusts have been granted, and It has not been necessary to consult the White House, rather than counsel, before doing business.! The Btatutes, and not the presidential ' feelings or state of mind, have been I our guide. And these havo been ad-j ministered evenly, Impartially, justly. I without straining to harass and persecute, per-secute, and, except tho New Haven case, without any suspicion of being obedience to public clamor. Only the Law for His Guide. "For a generation the Republicans have been tinkering with the banking! and currency question, but Wilson set-! tied it and settled It so effectually and wisely that his most reckless critics! are silenced upon that subject. The! federal reserve act was peculiarly Wilson's Wil-son's personal work. There was no political sentiment for it, or even agitation, agi-tation, except in banking circles. It had been little discussed in tho campaign. cam-paign. The Aldrich commission had made Us report and It had been duly pigeon-holed. If either Taft or Roosevelt Roose-velt had been elected the subject would have been resurrected only in a most perfunctory way, if at all, for congress clearly was not interested. But Wilson at once made it the paramount para-mount purpose and policy of his ad- ministration and put his whole power and influence behind It, and literally drove congress to the task until it was accomplished. Have the finan. cial and business men forgotten this supreme service?" Foreign Diplomacy Brilliant. "His management of our relations to the European war situation is the greatest and most brilliant page in our diplomatic history. Ho main tained our rights and our honor with unfailing firmness, and put our case with such clearness and force and logic that tho most arrogant nation had to yield, while all the neutral nations na-tions of the world applauded. He hold to a strict neutrality, as becomes the character and dignity of a great, self-respecting nation which is unwilling un-willing to become a vassal to either belligerent, like a Balkan state. True, this high-minded neutrality does not please those among us who arc no German that they want our own country coun-try to be made a battleground for the kaiser, nor those Americans who are so English that thoy draw their pa-triotlc pa-triotlc inspiration from that country rather than their own, and think we should have rushed into the war at the first excuse. Alien Venom on President. "But important as are all these con-sidcrations con-sidcrations they are, to my mind, insignificant in-significant to us as a nation in com. parlson with one great overshadowing question Involved in this election, namely, whether tho American people peo-ple are going to permit an American president to be disciplined and defeated defeat-ed and driven from office by an alien element in our population for daring to insist upon Amorlcan rights against a foreign government? There is no mistaking this Issue. Tho German-American German-American alliance and other disloyal organizations proclaim It with amazing amaz-ing nudacity. Roosevelt suffered from thoir hostility In his race for tho presidency. Robert Bacon felt it in his race for the senate. The New Jersey primaries demonstrated its malevolence. The leading German newspaper urged the Germans in that state to turn out and vote for certain men as against certain other men on this issue. They responded and won. But their venom is concentrated on President Wilson because ho refused to sanction the Lusitania murders and required the cessation of submarine slaughter of American men, women and children on peaceable ships at sea, and because he refused to put an embargo em-bargo on our legitimate manufactures and commerce. |
