16 Wilsonism as Viewed by a Plain Citizen To the Editor of the Telegraph : There Is such a wide-attempt on the part of a certain type of newspapers and politicians to exalt Mr. Wilson to place of loftiest statesmanship, and in the most brazen way to appeal to the gullibility of a non-dis criminating citizenship in his behalf, that I have yielded to a growing impulse within me to commit partially to paper my convictions as to the real merits of the situation:— One—l have usually voted the Re publican ticket. I did not in either election vote for Mr. Wilson. But I have no partisan bias which would prevent me from giving the most loyal support to a Democratic Presi dent. When Mr. Wilson was first declared elected, I joined in the most unreserved hope and confi dence that he would prove hoth a good and a great President. My habitual mood as a citizen is to de sire the ability to admire, to hold the greatest respect for and confi dence in, the chief magistrate of the Republic, be he Republican or Dem ocrat. Two —I speak as an individual citizen and of the personal impres sions that have come to me as such. The President had not gone far in his official career before by his com mitments he began sadly to dissipate my best hopes for and Ideals of him. He surprised me by revealing both narrow partisan and sectional ob sessions concerning his functions as i. President. I think it fitting, so far as may be, that tho President's Cabi net should represent distributively the most important sections of the Nation. I do not believe, for in stance, that the South, representing but a marked minority of both the population and the vast mercantile 1 and industrial interests of the Na ! tion, should furnish a decisive ma jority of the President's official ad visers. For a President to form a | sectional Cabinet would impress me i as neither just, patriotic, nor states . manlike. The President, by what ever party elected, may not forget j that he fails in highest duty if he : fails representatively and equitably to serve all citizens and all sections of the Nation. Mr. Wilson seems never to have been able to break away from a partisan bondage. Comparatively early in his first term, in a noted speech at Indianapolis, he indulged the astounding and atro- I clous taste, as President of the Re i public, of substantially declaring that the Democratic party was the ] only one in the Nation possessed of > either statesmanship or good sense. This incident in the measure in 1 which it is to be accepted as an ex ponent of the man is provacative of comment. It is at least suggestive of a lack of breadth and statesman ship which ought invariably to be long to the Presidential office. But much later, and apparently with no growth or improvement in his ideals, Mr. Wilson, exalting his own per sonal sovereignty and policies as paramount to all other interests, made his notorious appeal to the country for the election of a parti san Congress. He seems unable to rise above the plane of the partisan leader. Three —It is doubtful whether any ruler of a great Nation, and in a world-crisis, ever manifested a more ' vacillating, indecisive, and unde ! pendable policy than is set forth in Mr. Wilson's official record in con nection with the world-war. When the catclysm broke which was to lift nations from their foundations, it was all to him a matter of such re moteness as to be of little practical concern to America. We were ad vised to cultivate the spirit of abso lute neutrality, even in our very thoughts. We were a signatory na j tion to the inviolability of Belgium. , But when Germany, like a blood ; lusting and remorseless monster, . drove her mailed heel into the very I breast of prostrate Belgium, the ' President of the world's greatest re | public uttered no word of official ; protest. His answer should have 1 been as impressive as a million bay onets gleaming in the sunlight. When the Lusitania was torpedoed, sending scores of American citizens to ocean graves, the matter was handled from Washington in a way to confirm in the German mind the assumption on which it had already proceeded, that we were a Nation of dared to lay an assassin's knife at cravens and of cowards. It was at a time when a braggart bully had the very throat of our national honor that our President was voicing the pusillanimous sophism that we were a Nation "too proud to fight." It was this spineless attitude in those world-trying days that confirmed, perhaps more than anything else, the suspicion abroad, and in other lands than in Germany, that Amer ica could be insulted and bullied to the limit without serious danger of incurring the counter-stroke of her vengeful wrath. Sour. —I have never been able to experience any admiration of Mr. Wilson's masque during the cam paign for his second election. How ever much we were smarting under a sense of duty unperformed, under the lash of moral condemnation for not coming with our armed might to the rescue of world-imperiled liberties, yet up to the time of this election we were not committed to active participation in the war. It must be admitted that the national mind was not yet clarified as to the Issues involved, it did not clearly re alize that the conflagration was so frightful and menacing that unless America should come to the rescue the liberties of the world might be consumed. It is also to be recog nized that there was a wide domes tic sentiment in the Nation averse to our participation in the war. Mothers, wives, sweethearts, yield ing to a natural feeling not yet en lightened and fortified by a clear sense of duty shrank well night uni versally from the menacing horrors of the conflict. Out of this mood there was easily coined the shib boleth which carried immense senti mental effect—"He kept us out of war." In the narrow balancing of forces, this sentiment was sufficient to carry Mr. Wilson's election. And lie allowed it to be exploited for all that it could be made worth. At the same time he must have known • that this cry was utterly a false slo gan. He must have forseen even then that our near entrance into war was as inevitable as gravita tion. Tet he seemed deliberately to allow this sonorous but false plea to decide a matter so momentous as his election to the Presidency of the Republic. Five.—The "League of Nations." Certain sections of a partisan press are now loudly fulminating censures against those who refuse to follow with their eyes shut the ipso dixit of Mr. Wilson's proposed covenant. They would make it appear, for In- stance, that certain Senators, —rep- resentatives of both parties—through MONDAY EVENING*. sheer personal enmity toward the President, are conspiring to inter pose obstacles fatal to the ratifica tion of even the principle of an in ternational compact in the interests of world-peace. No plea could be more flagrantly false than this. The American people of all parties, both the leaders and the led, are in tensely in favor of a sane interna tional agreement which shall pledge civilization against the recurrence of war. But intelligent and patriotic law-makers, clothed with a proper sense of the solemn responsibilities of their office, who themselves have been robbed of opportunity to know tho evolution of Mr. Wilson's pro posed covenant, an instrument which has been shaped in secret and barred places, cannot with any claim to self-respect, or in fealty to their high public obligations, en dorse so potential a document on the recommendation of any indi vidual. however influential such in dividual's standing. The present opposition, concerning which so much censure is uttered, arises from highly intelligent and patriotic con siderations. If Mr. Wilson is having trouble with his "League of Nations," ho has absolutely no one to blame for the situation but himself. In this whole matter, a matter of superla tive world-importance, he has con ducted himself not only in a most objectionably partisan spirit, but he has played the role, on a most au dacious scale, of a self-centered autocrat. It undoubtedly remains the unalterable Judgment of a de cisive majority of the American people that the personal presence and participation of the President of the United States in the Paris Con ference was in itself a huge imperti nence. The chief magistrate of no other sovereign nation elected to choose such role for himself. But laying all this aside, Mr. Wilson, in his sovereign makeup of the Ameri can section of the Paris Confer ence, clearly laid himself open, whether purposely or through lack of vision, to the charge of deliber ately violating and defying a vast consensus of sane judgment. 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Passing by all the peerless men of the party, he finally hunted out from the backgrounds of the past a man who had long since ceased to retain representative character or influence. It seems manifest that Mr. Wil son, in selecting his associates for the Council, purposed to have only men whom he could personally dom inate. The history as we know it to-day seems strongly confirmative of this inference. Mr. Wilson's in ordinate autocracy appears nowhere more glaring than in his relations to the Paris Conference. Rhetorically a loud advocate of open diplomacy, he took advantage after the Armis tice was signed—an ill advantage I must think —of seizing all the ocean cables thus enabling him to institute a personal censorship over all com munications to America from for eign shores. As though obsessed by the idea that he alone in all America is endowed with something more than a Jovian brain, he put his official cap down over his head and went across the seas, leaving more than 100,000,000 of sovereign Americans, Including the United States Senate, the co-ordinate treaty making power of the people, in ab solute ignorance as to his processes. Judicial history for all time to come will, and can, characterize this magisterial procedure only in one way. It is more than rumored that the President assertpd himself with much obstinacy and autocracy In the Paris Council. He was doubt less out-classed and outwitted by his European associates. So far as now appears, England has made no vital surrenders in the entire pro cedure. France, of all nations most damaged and most menaced, has emerged from the Council with dis tinct and special guarantees for her future safety. Belgium and Italy are not satisfied. Japan has given her signature to the Treaty, but it self, as now presented, is little mbre than an agreement offensive and de fensive as between the Allied Nations. The Central Empires are thoroughly dissatisfied and disgruntled. A Democratic Presi dent has given the weight of his name to the imposition of the proposed treaty terms HABRISBURG TELEGRAPH i ' • upon sundry smaller nations with whom we have not been at war, and the interference with whose sov ereign autonomy is in theory and principle something utterly un- American. Indeed, Mr. Wilson's "League of' Nations," as a guaran tee of permanent world-peace, seems to utter itself as only a feeble voice amid a world-clamor of pro test and discontent. A man, to whom less than four years ago the affairs of the Euro pean war were so remote as in no way to call for active intervention on our part, has come now to be such an internationalist that he is willing to turn America, and with out "counting the cost," into the gratuitous burden-bearer of the world. Securing practically no compensating pledges of service from Europe, he seems desirous of making America the voluntary almoner of the world even at the sacrifice of factors deemed vital to the constitutional integrity and life of the Republic. It can be no cause of wonder that his ambition en counters rock-film opposition. If patriotic and responsible public of ficials, moved by an intelligence certainly equal to his own, calmly and resolutely oppose his views, he has earned it all for himself by his headlong, obstinate, and .blind self assertion. Europe, of course, was under bonds, not simply on grounds of international courtesy, but especially because of her will nigh universally dependent interests, to accord to Mr. Wilson a courtly treatment. In a most potential way the President holds the keys to the world's gold vaults and granaries on which all Europe needs largely to draw for the support of its very life. At whatever cost to National pride, it was needful to all Europe to placate our President. Nevertheless, there is an ominous and voluminous ac cumulation evidencing Mr, Wilson's lack of personal popularity among the representative minds of Europe. Mr. Irving S. Cobb, in a recent and really brilliant article in the Saturday Evening Post, has under taken to place Mr. Wilson upon the loftiest pedestal of history. He is the man of destiny not only for a Nation of more than 100,000,000 of people, but the one man of hope for forty additional Nations. With lavish eulogy, Mr. Cobb pictures him as the supreme leader in whose presence all men should suppress their personal prejudices, and whose mission as the Providential eman cipator of the world should be rev erently and gratefully accepted. 1 must regard this article as an audacious fiction. That Mr. Wil son has had a supreme opportunity to make himself immortal in his- , tory cannot be questioned. No man in the recent world conflict has been guided to so many open doors of superlative moral and statesmanlike opportunity. But Mr. Wilson has forced upon the discerning world a construction which declares him more a partisan than a statesman, more a self-seeker than a patriot, more a visionary dreamer than a constructive force in civilization, cherished limitations, he will pass into history as a man whose vision fell far short of his opportunity. The foregoing are a few, from Owing to his constitutional and voluminous other, reasons why, in my humble capacity as a private citizen, I cannot sympathize with Mr. Wilson's political trend. I am cheerfully aware of the fact that many dissent from my views. Some of my fine friends, and in a way that quite baffles my psychology, seem to believe that Mr. Wilson stands the supreme paragon either, in historic or in the present-day statesmanship of the world. I de voutly desire one of two things: either that they shall convincingly persuade me of the error of my thought, or that they themselves I shall bring forth fruits meet for re -1 pentance. , CIVIS. Harrisburg, Aug. 18th. Bread Rises in Auto; Baked at End of Trip Bloomsburg, Pa., Aug. 18.—To mix a batch of bread—six loaves— at her home in Greenwood town ship, Columbia county, "raise" it by auto and bake it in Bloomsburg was the unusual feat of Mrs. John Lemon. Incidentally, it exhibits a new possibility of the motorcar. A neighbor and Mrs. James Rush, of Bloomsburg, both wanted her to go to Bloomsburg. "But I have my bread mixed and rising," she said. "Bring it along," was the answer, "and bake it in Bloomsburg. She did. She telephoned Mrs. Rush to have her oven hot, and the pan of dough was covered with a clean white cloth and placed in tho tonneau, as close to the engine as possible. When they got to Blooms burg they found the "sponge" ready for the oven. Mrs. Lemon says she never had better bread. ARE YOU Suffering from CATARRH? For quick relief The MAN-HEIL Inhaler. Demonstration at Gorgas' Pharma -1 cy, 16 N. Third St.—Adv. GERMANS NOW ARE ALL EQUAL Men and Women Have Same Rights in the New Constitution By Associated Press. Berlin, Friday, Aug. 15. The new German constitution, which was passed by the National Assem bly after months of debate and which became effective this week, is divided into two main parts—the. "composition and ties of the em pire" and "the basic rights and basic duties of Germans." The first part consists of seven sections and the second of five. Subdivisions of the first parts are: The empire and individual states; the Reichstag; the Imperial presi dent; imperial government; imper ial council; imperial legislation and imperial administration of justice. Those of the second part are: In dividual community of life; religion and religious societies, education and economic life. The concluding part of the constitution bears the title: "Transition relations." The preamble to the constitution begins as follows: "The German people, united in its branches and inspired by the will to renew and strengthen its empire in freedom and justice, to further in ner and outer peace and social ad vance, has voted this constitution." Section one declares the German empire is a republican state, sover eignty being based on the people. It describes the territorial limits of the empire, establishes the Imperial colors as being black, red and gold and states that the generally recog nized rules of international law will be held as binding on the empire. The second main part provides that all Germans shall be equal be fore the law, and that men and women shall have basically the same rights and duties. Preferen tial rights and drawbacks of birth and position are removed and titles of nobility arc considered as only the part of a person's name. EX-POSTMASTER DROPS DEAD Sharon. Pa., AUK. 18. Daniel Williams. 68 years, former postmas ter of Sharon, dropped dead at Con neaut lake Thursday night, of apo plexy. lie was once one of the lead ing Republican politicians of Mer cer county. AUGUST 18, i^n.9. Pershing to Sail For U. S. I Sept. 1; Will Go to Home in Missouri, Then to Cheyenne Pnrlm, Aug. 18.—Before leaving for Italy Gen. John J. Pershing, com mander-in-chief of the American Armies in France, told correspond ents that he expected to sail to America about September 1, and shortly after his arrival would visit his old home in Missouri and would also go to Cheyenne, Wyo. General Pershing said he would recommend that a monument be placed at Romange, where occurred the bitterest fighting encountered by the American Armies in the Meuse Argonne battle. King Signs Spain's Adhesion to League Madrid,' Aug. 18. —King Alfonso | Saturday signed the law authoriz ing adhesion by Spain to the Cove- j nnnt of the League of Nations com- : prised in the Treaty of Versailles. That part of the Treaty dealing : with the organization of labor was j also accepted by Spain. Santiago, Chile, Aug. 18.—With- | out a dissenting vote the Foreign j Relations Committee of the House | of Representatives Saturday ap- I proved adhesion of Chilo to the ] League of Nations. The Senate gave . its approval earlier in the week. Alleged Murderers Surrender to Posse Charleston, W. Va„ Aug. 18.—Pro- i hibition Commissioner Walter Hallnn ' received word here that Charles ; Spey and .Too Martin, charged by State authorities with the murder of ! Will Farley, deputy prohibition of ficer, surrendered themselves to a posse which had been scouring the hills of Logan. Mingo and Wavno county for them for the past five days. The men surrendered at Ran ger, in Logan county. WII.I.TAM H. SMITH Funeral services of William H. Smith, aged 87 years, who died at his home. 1108 Penn street, yesterday, will he held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial will be made in the Fast TTarrlshurg cemetery. Mr. Smith was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors and of Warrior Ragle Tribe No. 340. Improved Order of Red Men. He is survived ,by his wife, a. son. James P. Smifh, two daughters. Mrs. Harry Maul and Mrs Celia Schwank, vwo brothers, David of Idaho, and James of Huntingdon! j and a sister, Mrs. Pennypacker. 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