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a position where we have got to have war at the will of a foreign
nation, whether we want it or not."
Mr. Wilson is pro-British and pro-Ally. He has never repu-
diated a letter credited to him addressed to President Poincare, in
which he expressed his sentiments in no mistakable manner. Only
recently we read an account, vouched for by Mr. Julius Chambers,
the well-known writer in the Brooklyn Eagleiof a gathering of pro-
English sympathizers, which goes to prove that his pro-British lean-
ings are widely recognized among his supporters. Admittedly, Mr.
Chambers writes, the speech of the night was made by a prominent
New Yorker, widely known as a Republican. who worked and voted
for Woodrow Wilson. During his talk he castigated the Adminis-
tration unmercifully. “Even before a pro-British assemblage he
charged the President with permitting England to dictate our
foreign policy.”
l.Ve find the Detroit Journal charging him with acting on orders
from London. “This brings us back to Major Langhorne, the
American military observer with the Central Powers," the paper
says. “Why was he recalled? He was recalled because the London
censor, reading his private dispatches from Berlin to the President
of the United States, informed our Government that these official
American dispatches were too pro-German to suit the censor.”
Mr. Wilson is among those who look upon the American Revo-
lution in a somewhat dilierent spirit from the majority of Ameri-
cans. In nothing is his Anglican leanings betrayed more conclu-
sively than in his American history where, speaking of the Tory
desertions from New York into Canada to the number of 29,000,
he says that “almost without exception they had been, in opinion,
as thoroughly opposed as their neighbors to the policy of the King
and Parliament toward the colonies. But they had not been willing
to go the ugly length of rebellion and of outright separation
from England.” Mr. Wilson describes these traitors to their coun-
try, whom Washington condemned “in the bitterest words,” in terms
of praise as a class “accustomed to rule and furnish rulers," and dis-
tinguished by “pride of reputation, the compulsion of class spirit.”
He emphasizes that Lincoln was a minority President, and nowhere
THE FATHERLAND
is he persuaded that American independence could could have been
accomplished save as a gracious concession of England.
If President Wilson wants peace he is going about it in a devious
way. But if he wants war at any price we can understand clearly
why in August, 1913, in his message to Congress, he said: “I shall
follow the best practice of nations-in the matter of neutrality
by forbidding the exportation of arms and munitions of war
of any kind from the United States," and why, in 1914, he held
that a neutral power (the United States) is helpless to stop such
exportation on the ground that it would otherwise be depriving the
belligerent able to profit by it (England) of an advantage which the
belligerent had won, or on the ground that it would thereby assist
the other belligerent (Germany) ; and we can understand the mean-
ing of a Washington dispatch in the Chicago Tribune, dated 'July
5th:, “In case this campaign should be successful to the point of
carrying through Congress the Hitchcock or other bills forbidding
such arms export, President VVilson will exercise his right to veto."
President VVilson is apparently prepared to go to extremes; the
recall of the German military attaches was made public on the day of
the conviction of the Hamburg-American steamship officials and on
the eve of the reconvening of Congress, as a political tour de force,
a cumulative effect, designed to influence the national legislature
in behalf of a sinister move toward Germany.
If Mr. Wilson wants to be re-elected at any price he is going about
it the right way. He and the English-born editor of the Providence
Journal, Secretary Lansing and Attorney-General Gregory (and Sir
Cecil Spring-Rice?) held a conference, and the result was the dis-
missal of two German attaches. A few more moves on the political
chessboard, the announcement that Count von Bernstorff is no
longer persona grata, an ultimatum to Germany on the Lusitania
Question, and we shall have war! And history informs us that the
American people never change their President during a war. “The
mother country" will be saved-perhaps, and the dream of Roose-
velt, Choate, Root, Harvey, Eliot and the rest will have been trans-
lated into reality. In 1916 or 1917 we shall be part of the Union
of Great Britain and the United States, or merged, as Gouverneur
M0"15 Duts it in his lecture on the French war films.
SENATOR SMITH STRIKES THE KEYNOTE
FOR nearly a year President VVilson has conducted the business
of this country with a free hand, regardless of Congress, or any
sentiment other than that which was breathed into his willing cars
by a cabinet in part made up of men born under the British crown,
or a press working in connection with Wall Street, the British am-
munition agent for the United States, J. P. Morgan, and the muni-
tions makers sending $3,000,000 worth of shrapnel and gunpowder
to England every working day in the week. Only British inliuences
have been operative upon his mind and conscience in all these weary
months of absolute rule, a rule utterly iilzpossible to the Kaiser un-
der the German constitution.
But Congress is in session at last, and not a week had gone by be-
fore Mr. VVilson and Sir Edward Grey had to listen to statements
from Senator Hoke Smith, Senator Walsh and others which, if
printed in Tni: FATHERLAND, would have subjected it to threats of
prosecution.
The standpoint of these patriotic Americans is the standpoint of
THE FATIIERLAND. We have fought, all alone, the attempt of Mr.
Wilson and Secretary Lansing to confuse the public mind over the
issues between this country and the Allies, the attempt to cloak un-
der a smug assumption of virtuous indignation regarding the death
of American citizens aboard English munitions transports, their
failure to take determined action regarding the crimes committed
against the United States by England and France, against American
vessels, American cargoes and the abuse of the American flag by
English pirate ships, like the Baralong, the Coloniaii and others.
At the lowest estimate fifty native-born Americans have been mur-
dered in Mexico without creating an issue of peace or war. Under
[ht Wilson Admim'.r!rati'on American citlzciis have had no protec-
tion save wlicn sailing in Allied bottom.r.
While thousands of Germans are being sent'to their death by the
Wilson-protected shrapnel shipments from American ports, German
citizens in this country are railroaded to prison for sending food to
their nationals at sea. While the Wilson Administration stops the
parcel post, so that American citizens may be prevented from send-
ing condensed milk to the children of Germany, for Christmas, it
diverts the public conscience from its heinous offense against hu-
"fa““Y hi’ hypocritical preachments on national morality and Chris-
tian duty, and the President invites his cabinet to kneel in prayer
p"‘ipa’at0"Y to discussing measures for the further protection of
the traliic in arms.
Sena“ Smith has warned Mr. Wilson that the United States are
rot a vassai of England’ and after his Powerful speech in the Senate.
3St Week, publicly rebuked Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, one
of the most blghted T01'i6S in the halls of Congress, for his attempi
:3 chhfhfe ‘hf! Issues. It was to be expected that Lodge would use
is position in the Senate to protect “the mother country.’ when
called to account for her assault on our commerce and independence.
:t51;:;e“’r3e5bC:11eddt0'account by Jetferson, by Madison and by Grant.
ch” tt 1 E e a m1"‘5‘e’eflt0 ‘he Dcstiferous Senator from Massa-
d s.e .5 13, some of the Vigor that still characterized an American
‘(‘:lm"h5h‘5,ih0n when Senator Smith was a member of President
evelands cabinet, and Cleveland had to deal with English in-
solence and pretensions. He said:
Seiilaiiori-I f‘i'C())tITlSliidpnSedhat ‘he Speech or at the amendment of the
war there has bassac usetts. Almost from the beginning of the
aimost Succeedege? 3 C1355 Of People-good people-who have
restraints upon in suppre55‘"g. any inquiry into the British
for the lives thftmh commerce 5"hD1Y by suggesting sympalh)’
cries of Sympath ave been lost. But I suspect that these
tions plants thaty come ‘Wm persons interested in muni-
They come fro are making Shipments to Great Britain-
m those patriots who, to say the least, ha”
b.d No one cares moichfm
. or i an in ' ave
the hm" oi‘! ;:C”ul;;l(Ij1‘g;),l0 the loss of life iS,“:‘l'Zv:l;t$h?ii moV,es
It seems an ti Ooded Plan does not seem to me
e 0" to distract attention from the aw‘
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