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R. F. Beasley.
THE MONROE JOURNAL trast- Anl l!le5r unconsciously as- -iP.;o.n! q ri"" pSuoiojd Saoi
; sumed that such a man must be a able. The public, whose servtcu
Founded In 1S?4 by the present counterpart of Wilson, only a little both the roads and the men are. could
owners and put.her, G. M. and Wot if nnssihle. and nossessinsr the nitf rnnl pmnl.ifi ml treat an iniuw-
; Wilson qualities more conspicuously. ' tice w ith any degree of equinimity.
jThis a a most pronounced, if un- It Las a right to p otest. The que-
cunsptcuous tnouie w air. uson. tor . uoa is. now tar u.es tnis right go
rublUhtrd IjicH Tuesday "d Friday. ' tn,ir subconscious minds never for a ' and what Is the natural tendency
; moment contemplated the mistake of Us assertion. If there is an a?ree-
putting up a contrast. i ment whereby both sides may do tl:e
j No-, their trouble was that anions face saving stunt by reason of the
all the active leaders of that party President' interference, and no strike
there was 1.0 man who. came within ( results, well and i; od. But a-uppntse
a mile of the standard as there was t'at. moral j-u'sim t''.:it he Is able to
' not another oae in the Demociatie tXen fails aud t.e determination to
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lr to Claim'.
The Kaiser has said that while he
docs rot consider himself to blame
for t'.l U::r he does not doubt that
foiiii' blame attache to lam, as, he
thinks. ;i .ia pen. on attaches to ev
ery ih !; .! mail i t Kurope, and he
does Hi I liv.del'la:;.! why nelltlal peo
ples r. L.iril I, mi the chief oifcnd
er. We do not k:;,iw whether he niad'
these remark .; not. but it doesn't
matter. For the purpn.-e ol this argu
ment, it n..! tii- ailmi't, a that he is
no more to I.!, i.io- than others in re-
Fpon.-iMo positioijs. Tlii- treat mas.-s
of men are to blame only in so far
us they itnerantly permit themselves
to be deceived by the arguments of
their rulers. At preseut the element
of war exists in every country that
has the power to make war. The
fuel is all asMitehlcd, the kindling in
place, and most any accidental oc- .
currence may strike the (lame. Kv
ery country preaches the doctrine
that it must have force to defend its .
rights and everyone holds that it is
the sole judge of its own rights. When j
two s' lhborn neighbors fall out over
a bound.' ry line, neither can enforce
his i ii:h!-. except by appealing to a !
third !; i-i y a disinterested jury, j
Neitlu i.- ;ae absolute judge of what
his rights .ire, and if one disregards j
the l.'v, i nd undertakes to enforce!
his iil'ii; by shot gun methods, the:
law then steps in and takes hold of'
him oii its own accord. j
But v. hen two rulers fall out each
is the judge df his own ri;;hts and
each demands that the other must
surrender in into what he regards us
his rights. When the argument gets
pretty heated the stronger one is.-.ues
an ultimatum, and the other in.
backs down unless lie feels strong
enough to resist himself or hy :i.,
uid of his friends. Austria is.-ued an
ultimatum to Servia. Germany is
sued an ultimatum to Russia. This
country is supposed to bo a peaceful
one, yet h candidate for t ho chief of
fice Is waltzing all over the land
preaching the identical doctrine
which brought on the European war.
He wants the country to :isert its
rights, that is, he wants it to be in
a position to nuike the others aban
don what they conceive to he their
rights whenever h" chooses to tell
them that they must. In so far as
he is able lie is deceiving the Ameri
can people just as (ho Kuropean lead
eis docoiwd their pioplo ini'i adopt
ing the doctrine that makes war In
evitable. Mr. Wilson has prevent d;
ar VllU Germany by persuading,
Germany to give tip .the contentions,
for the things that she regarded as
her rights., lie has pn vented war
with Mexico hv refusing to adopt a
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policy ol murder upon a helpless peo
ple struggling: in their own light for
rejuvenation. Mr. Hughes is thun
dering against hint for having done
this. "If 1 nm President," says Mr.
Hughes, "I will make them respect
-our right:" That is, he would issue
aa "ultimatum against a weaker na
tion, and provoke a stronger one to
Issue an ultimatum against us. And
millions of Americans who ought to
have more sense ate falling for this
rotten and worn out doctrine. Mr.
Hughes is reviving in America the
idea that was old in the time of
Greece and other ancient nations,
namely, that every people not under
our flag is an enemy If not a barba
rian. Our word barbarian is taken
bodily from the Greek work which
meant a foreigner. It is past under
standing to us that a man of Mr.
Hughes' character and standing can
permit himself to make the kind of
arguments he does. His old gags on
the outworn tariff question and his
incitement of the Ignorant hostility
to other nations, seem to us like in
tellectual stuliflcatlon In a man of in
telligence In this day and time.
party. But there was Mr. Hughes.
He did not talk, and nobody knew
what he beleivcj or really what kind
of a man he was. Having air-. un
created the Wilson prototype for
their candidate, they assumed that
Mr. Hughes vus It. and this myth
grew and grew. The less Mr. Hugh.es
said, and he said nothing, the
more did the fancy grow that
he was the man cast large in
the mold of statesmanship made
popular and understandable by
' Mr. Wilson. It followed the well
' known principle that the man
who says nothing and looks wise
gradually attains the reputation of
wi.-doni. It was not the fault of Mr.
Hughes that the boosters made him
a super-Wilson, but that very thing
gave him the nomination. A super
' Wilson was what was needed ana
popular imagination created the
myth that Mr. Hughes was such. Now
we are finding out that he is not. He
is an ordinary political campaigner
who makes mountains out of mote
hills and skips all the mountains
while searching for mole hills. He.
is paramounting the old tariff
(skeleton and shaking gory fingers at
the foreigners. And the Hughes myth
i has exploded.
A Straw.
When President Wilson volunteered
to see both sides to the controversy
which threatened to plunge this
country into a great disaster by ty
ing up all railroad traffiic, it was not
i!: rough any mere sentiment which
deplores controversy between t!i-
corporations and the men who work
for them, but it was as of right for
the chief executive to so intercede
in ftehalf of neither side, but i:i b
h;'!f (f the American people. Mi.
Wilson said so much. The tlisastet
that would ensue from such a strike
strike is not abandoned, what then?
It may not rapptn this time, for
Vuhlie s-n;imci. travels slowly, but
it certainly will happen ere long, that
the public will a.--u:ne the rijht t
pnvent a strike eveu to the extent of
operating the roads itself in case
their managers or iio-n will not. And
then how far will thin be from gov-t-rntmnt
ownership? One" strike on
the scale of that contemplated would
do more to force public ownership
than all the diseu'on and argument
of a c ntury.
As all railroad employees become
better and better organized, the or
ganizations will dictate the policy of
the roads. In case of controversy.if
the government by force protects the
companies in the operations of trains
by other men than those of the or
ganizations, it will be tantamount to
taking sides with the roads against
i the men, for without the power to
strike the men are helpless. The
power to strike effectively rests upon
the power to prevent other workers
I from taking the place of the strik
ers. In Industrial strikes all the
bloodshed Is caused by the introduc
tion of armies or militia to protect
the new men that come in. That
works, however unjustly, when the
less skilled and less intelligent bodies
of men are the strikes, but obviously.
It will not work where the whole
field of intelligent labor of the coun
try is involved. Then what? Are
the railroads to be forced to give way
to the demands of the men? This
again wotUd be a one-sided affair.
These situations point in one direc
tion and one only to government
ownership of public utilities. Includ
ing the railroads, the greatest and
most important of nil. We are not '
arguing for or against, because there
is no need to. Events will themselves
be the argument, and that is the way !
we interpret events.
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friend.
Soon she was met by
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people who are doubtful about the place that woman should occupy In
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Again she shook her head and passed on.
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The world has often bowed before
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public Is prone to make myths to
Fuit its fancy. The latest example of
myth worship is very striking. The
reality of Mr. Hushes as a candidate
is a sharp and painful contrast to the
Myth which the public, and especially
)the Republican party, bad erected
and fancied it was the real Mr.
Hughes. It I another case of finding
that the feet of the Idol are made of
clay.
Confronted by the astonishing ca
reer of Mr. Wilson as President, and
knowing that the country would not
well take to a smaller man of any
party, the Republicans spent months
In looking for "tome good man" who
might be pittled against Mr. Wilson
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