Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 296, 30 October 1916 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, OCT. SO, 1916

NATION LIKE CHINA AMONG BIG POWERS

Among .the world powers, the United States and China are the two

weakest , today in the opinion of Samuel Hill, multimillionaire good roads enthusiast who spoke at the South Eighth Street Friends Meeting House Saturday night Mr. Hill attacked the policies of President Wilson before taking up his discussion of highways. As president of the Pa

cific Highway association, Mr. Hill advocated a military highway . from British Columbia to Mexico. Mr. Hill, while in the city, was the guest of William Dudley Foulke.' - Three hundred species of turtles and tortoises are known. , '

WANTS WISE VOTING

Speaking at the Second PresbyterIan church yesterday morning, E. M. Learner, secretary of , the X, M. C. A. showed the necessity of Christian

guidance In casting ballots at the coming election. He pleaded for thoughtful study of the Issues and for an intellegent choice of men and principles. Current is switched automatically Into a new' electric screwdriver the instant pressure is applied. '

HONOR SAINTS' DAY

All Saints' Day will be observed at both St. Andrew's and St. Mary's Catholic churches, Wednesday, November

This is a holy day of obligation and every member of the churches most attend mass at either 5, 7 or 9 o'clock, All Souls' Day will be observed at both churches, Thursday. Requiem' mass will be observed at 8 o'clock fol all deceased members of the church.

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"0"E KEPT usout of war1' JUL JL is offered by the Democratic Party as a statement of a supreme accomplishment. That slogan is false. To accept it without thought or reason is dangerous to the life of the nation.

For months we have been conducting a border war with Mexico. At Vera Cruz we demanded that our flag be saluted. The demand was refused. We landed troops; a battle followed. We withdrew without the salute, bringing nineteen of our dead with us and leaving our honor behind; and to this day the salute demanded has not been fired.

The weakness of Mexico, not the strength of the United States, is all that has prevented our act of war from being turned into the seriousjact of war. If the slaughter of American citizensmen, women and children by armed troops, if the killing of American soldiers by the soldiers of another nation, if the sacking of our towns is not war, what is it? The Judge Advocate General of our army says it is war. The Mexicans say it is war. Wilson's acts show it is war, but Wilson's voice says it is peace. The Truth is that it is more than war. It is war without honor and murder without reparation. It is a condition that makes every true citizen ashamed of the spectacle we have become in the eyes of other nations

Wilson's course vitalized civil war in Mexico and border war with us. The vacillating and irresolute policy of the present administration has brought humiliation upon this country, both at home and abroad. We have been at war; we are now at war; many lives have been lost; our honor has been besmirched, and yet the Democratic Party cries to the nation "He kept us out of war," "He has protected me and mine." Thefactisthathe has neglected our greatest treasures the lives of our citizens and the honor of our country It is the world war in Europe, not the acts of the Wilson administration, which has kept us out of international complications that would have sorely tried our courage,1 and our strength. Just prior to the outbreak of the war there was forming a combination of European nations to demand of us that we stop the disorder in Mexico, to demand protection of the lives and vast property of European citizens in Mexico, to declare that these European nations would give protection by force of arms if we did not.

What would that have meant?

It would have meant that we must adopt a determined policy to enforce order in Mexico, which was the only duty consistent with the stewardship which we assumed under the Monroe Doctrine; or it would have meant war or the surrender of the Monroe Doctrine.

It was the accident of war in Europe which then prevented retribution for the policies of the aiming istration in Mexico.' When the war is over those nations will again press their claims and we will face the consequences of the Wilson policy of watchful waiting

Have we sunk so low that we can

approve such a policy? Have we become so morally flabby, that we will toleratejtg Jffljtgancg? This administration has created war. It has 'created causes for f uture seriousinternational friction! Notes andwords and shades of meaning born of rhetoric rather than straightforward patriotic sincerity, have marked the course of our relations with

foreign nations.

Force of character,ra fair and honorable course, would have closed the debate which facility of language kept open. Force " of character would have stopped murder on the high sea J Does the low estate into which we have fallen among nations make a foundation upon which to build prestige for this country or safety and moral staminaforour children? It is our tradition to honorably keep out of war but not to spinelessly creep into war. Mr. Wilson has not kept us out of war. Mr. Wilson has put us into war. Mr. Wilson is making war upon the moral fiber of this nation.

" A Nation Which Does Not Protect Its Own Citizens

Has Already Begmiffi to Die

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