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IVTI.IIllUT 1111 lilt 1 I’v.
. Wile,
We Im-1 ; vi- it is a mistake to in
fer that any anti-militarist or pro
German agitation is in any way
way responsible for the ilanger
which the go.eminent is re< konlng
with: an anti-draft movement.
The opposition to the drafting
will come primarily not so much
iron) the young men themselves as
from their parents. And where
those parents lur e not been roused
to a feeling d danger unless the
war is fought in Europe, they are
likely to offer some degree of resist
anre to the sons In whom they
pride. often the only son. being
sent to Europe to tight a battle In
which so far their minds have been
unable to connect up with the for
tunes of tiieir country or its inde
pencence.
The materilal instinct is especially
strong in American women, and
they will not view lightly the draft
ing of their children. Nothing could
be more natural than this, and un
less government and the war sup
porters art- able to so affect the na
tional mind as to be able to make
the mothers and the fathers see
that unless their sons are prepared
to sacrifice themselves on the battle
field the independence and the
safety of the country Is in danger
there will he trouble. While a very
strong war agitation has been car
ried on, it must not he forgotetn
that side by side with this for the
past two or three years also has
proceeded a strong pacificist agita
tion. and the democratic party, by
and with the assent of the highest
officials, have deliberately made pa
cificism in (lie last election the slo
gan which led them to victory. They
directed themselves sedulously to
the cultivation of the idea that war
was so great an evil as to lie avoid
'mi iii ciii i umb, <11111 i in* icii'L i rial
Wilson kept the country from that
evil, warranted his election as argu
ment enough.
Up and down the countryside
went the speakers urging this point
of view and impressing upon the
people the vital necessity of main
taining at all costs the nuetralitv
of the country. Through the mails
went millions of copies of the key
note speech of Martin Glynn, a
wonderful piece of oratory in itself,
boosting this very principle and
basing it upon the historic prece
dents established under the most try
in circumstances by the greatest of
America ns.
Hence the democratic party, by
and with the assent of the adminis
tration oflicials, fomented, devel
oped, and fostered the belief that
the United States could and must
main neutral, and that the war
talk was promoted by those who
were either deliberately corrupt or
insanely jingoist.
Having developed that frame of
mind throughout the country, the
same party his to contend, officially,
with it. The fathers and the moth
ers with sons of military age, as
well as many of the sons themselves
have been imbued with the notion
that the safety of (lie country and
the maintenance of tlie national in
tegrity is associated not with an
entry Into the war hut in the pre
servation of til*' national abstention
from the war in Europe.
What could be more natural then
(hat quoting the democratic leaders
against themselves, they should re- j
-sist the draft? If any blame is to
bo attached to the people, it is not
by reason of any disloyalty except
such as many have been cultivated
by the democratic leaders them-1
selves.
The (easeless educational propa
ganda along the lines of the pre
servvation of neutrality which the
democratic leaders carried on cease
essly and tirelessly to elect Wilson,
ig the very stumbling block which
■the administration plans now en
counter. They were even quoting
an entry into the war, and against
any change in the neutral policy ot
this government, before the con
scription act was passed. And if
they do so. surely they arc not re
sponsible tor the attitude now taken
up? It may be recognized frankl}
that tin greatest opposition to war
came front those who were and are
pro-Gormans. Xo one can den>
this. And it may he frankly recog
nized that the pro-Germanist Is go
ing to leave nothing undone to ham
per the war measures of the United
States against the eountrv with
which lie is in full sympathy.
Xone tlie less the democratic
party itself is primarily responsible
lor the fact that the national mind
is unprepared to accept war. and
certainly it it is unprepared to ac
cept quietly the draft,
tin- propaganda of the democratic
spiel binders as well as the pro
Germanist propagandists are equal
ly responsible.
iieally common sense should
warn that the frame of mind of the
people, what one may call the social
mind, cannot be changed over night.
Thus tlie effort to instill, correctly
it may he, the fact that the war In
Europe in which the United States
is taking a part, is a war of demo
cracy against autocracy, has come
rather late in * he history of tlie
war to be immediately effective. It
is not one of those fundamental
truths that are so obvious they
need no demonstration and no ar
gumentative proof. It has been
challenged by some of tho ablest
democrats at the earlier stages of
the war, when neutrality was a de
mocratic cult, and it will not be ac
cepted at once haphazard fashion
upon the ipse dixit of some power
hil journal or some prominent per
son.
"it1 re inconsistency of view does
not render that view wholly worth
| less; but it does somewhat hamper
j its popular extension. The public
! likes to follow a leader, but the pub
lic likes, somehow a consistent lead
| er. It gets wearied discovering his
steps! through a mystic maze of one
| attitude today and another tomor
j row.
That is precisely the condition of
the popular mind today where there
are evidences of opposition to the
war and to conscription. While
an invasion of the United States
might result in the flocking of mil
lions to the colors, and while draft
ing would be wholly in that event
superfluous, there are quite a good
many who recall only the demo
cratic past and insist still if not in
preserving neutrality, at least in
maintaining an attitude of opposi
tion to conscription.
The administration and the de
mocratic party ought, in all fair
ness. to be ready therefore to ac
cept full responsibility should any
draft troubles be encountered. The
administration sowed the seed pre
cisely for those troubles, it may
have been with the best intention
in the world. Only yesterday the
most powerful were teaching that
we should be too proud to fight, j
and that we should bestir ourselves f
to memorize the warning of Wash
ington himself against entangling
alliances. Today they cannot reason- 1
ably expect that all others would ri<! <
themselves of the teachings which
they absorbed from them the day
before. Hence if many are too
Proud to fight, it is justly recollect
ed that it was the President him
self who nurtured that pride.
U is not a very peculiar thing that
not everyone can today carry on a
tireless anti-war propaganda and
warn the nation that it would be
the greatest of calamities, and to
morrow volunteer, if the war sup
porters wish, to enlist as a private
in the ranks. Most minds move
more slowly and possess less elasti
city than the nimble brain ot
William Jennings Bryan. Only few
fields, and those are in fairy tales,
ptoduce other fruit than that the
seVrd of which was sown. The Am
erican mind has been tilled with the
neutrality plow for the past four
years and the democratic party has
30wn the seeds of pacificism with
the energy of mighty few political
husbandmen. They cannot in all
reason expect from that sowing to
harvest a crop of bayonets and
machine guns and militarists. They
fertilized the soil with a suitable
mess of keynote speeches, adapted
to the end cf a fine crop of prosperi
ty and peace. They may not de
cently conclude that now the field
will produce multitudes of men
eager for war. for battle and fot
activity in foreign trenches.
Had the case been otherwise, and
had Colonel Roosevelt been flic
man whost gospel had been espous
ed during the past three years—
had the soul of the nation been pro
perly stimulated to tlie marital fer
vor requisite—had the mind re
sponded to the noble idealism of
war—had the ungraciousness or
peace and the indignity of neutral
ity and the indecency of refusing
to fight—had any and all these
tilings noon properly inculcated and
promulgated during the past feu
years under the strenuous education
of a Roosevelt, without doubt the
situation might have been entirely
different. Then in all probabiliu
no such measure as the draft would
have been necessary, for we see
Roosevelt hituself, through the in
fluence of his own powerful per
sonality can net out to raise one di
vision of volunteers and four divi
sion applications are forthcoming.
Roosevelt however, except at a
very remote period of tiie war. was
never uncertain about himself. His
appetite for fire was manifestly in
satiable. N’o one ever failed to know
where he was at. He worshipped
Mars atul he wanted everyone to
know it. He tricked himself with
no academic phrases and no
“weasel words”. He soothed the
perturbed mind of the public with
no sententious platitudes or elevat
ed epigrams. He juggled no sen
tences that mystified. War lu
wanted: war he held righteous; war
he held a national duty; war was
what alone could purge the nation
of the plagues of peace!
He lie er failed to observe the
reality of the German menace. He
saw in the rape of Belgium tie
ravaging of every virgin nation. He
beheld in the riot of frightfulness the
scepter of despotism, and he held
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that nil men, men untainted by un
certainty of soul and hesitance ot
mind should rise to obliterate ana
destroy for ever the menace of ci
-'iIi/.allot). In this tireless exposi
tion of his position he had neither
ruth nor pity. Those who were not
him were against him. For him
these was no middle road, no un
certainty of way through the path
less thickets of political subtleties
and academic metaphysics. The
untutored mind followed him as
clearly as the eye follows the solar
path through the heavens. The
popular mind was asked to study
out no abstruse theory of national
rectitude; no profound doctrine or
national ethics. It was a simple
question of right or wrong, with
right all on one side.and wrong all
upon the other. There could be no
life of faith diversified by doubt,
any more than there could be any
life of doubt diversified by faith.
This was on to the rack with faith
—faith in the righteousness of a
war to destroy the Hun and all his
works. That was Roosevelt. But
the public did not worship at so
simple a shrine and before so un
adorned an idol. Instead it chanted
sophistic doctrines today of strange
and mystic cast to the God of peace,
where war was above all things
identified with the Kvil One. The
teaching modified, not slowly or
steadily and gradually, so that the
popular mind could evolve with it,
but suddenly as if the doctrines ot
yesterday v.ere heretical and those
who espoused them fit only to be
burned at the stake. Vet whose the
fault? Those who were unable to
adjust themselves to the later cult,
or those who fastened upon the po
pular mind the very cult today is
regarded with such misgiving?
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