Unforgivable Neglect

For more than a year after the world-war began, Wilson did not raise a finger to put us in a condition of defense. Only the proverbial good luck of America has kept us from paying the bitterest price for his unforgivable neglect.

We have all heard him ridicule the idea of a greater navy, then declare for incomparably the greatest navy in the world, and then go back on that.

We have all heard him declare for exempting our coastwise trade from tolls in the Panama Canal; and have seen him show our own people and the English that he did not mean it.

The Single Term

We have seen him elected on a platform which pledged him to a single term as President, and then become a candidate for another term.

We have all heard him declare for the Conservation of our natural resources; and have seen him neglect that policy, and refuse his help to defeat the Shields water-power bill, the most dangerous attack on Conserva tion since Ballinger's effort to turn Alaska over to the Guggenheims.

The Pork Barrel

We have all heard him declare for efficiency in Government, and have seen him set the pork-barrel first and throw efficiency away.

I have known official Washington from the inside for six Administrations. In that time the Government business has never been so badly done and so extravagantly as it is now done under Wilson.

We have all heard him announce himself as the champion of Civil Service reform; and have seen him turn the Government Departments over to the spoilsmen as no other President has done in twenty

years.

We have all heard him declare for pitiless publicity; and have seen him conduct the most secret administration of our time.

We have all heard him announce himself as President of all the people; and have seen him, as the most partisan President of his generation, flout and oppose the Progressives, whom now, because he needs them, he seeks to conciliate and enlist.

Worst of all is this: When every principle of freedom and equality for which our fathers fought was at stake in the great war, when our whole country eagerly awaited the leadership of the President, Wilson dodged. He refused to take sides on the greatest moral issue of our time. He advised our people to be "Neutral even in thought," undecided between right and wrong.

A Great Wrong

While our friends abroad were fighting for the principles we held equally with them, he taught us that profits and ease were better than self-respect. President Wilson has done our Nation the most serious injury that any leader can do to any people by making us flinch with him from a great moral decision. Thereby he weakened our hold as a Nation on the principles which alone can make any people self-respecting, safe and strong.

Having led us wrong on the ground that we must be neutral in the face of the deliberate breaking of the world's peace, he has just reversed himself again, and in his speech at Shadow Lawn now assures us that "No nation can any longer remain neutral as against any wilful disturbance of the peace of the world."

An Ignoble Standard

from standing up for what we know to be right.

The ignoble standard of profit over principle which Mr. Wilson forced upon the country in our foreign relations, he has applied to himself as President. In what he has said, done, and left undone, the

record shows him steadily dominated by political expediency.

"Molasses to Catch Flies "

These facts, and many others like them, have forced me to see that what Mr. Wilson says is no sign of what he has done, or of what he will do. The one thing his record shows is that what he stands for now he is not likely to stand for long. I do not care what his platform or his campaign declarations may be, because the common experience of us all has taught us that to him they are simply "molasses to catch flies."

I Shall Vote and Work
For Hughes

Hughes, on the other hand, is a man of his word. His record as Governor of New York proves that. It shows him to be honest, fearless, and free from the domination of So

special interests and corrupt politicians. far as the Conservation policies are concerned, both what he said and what he did could hardly have been better. I am confident that under him these policies will be safe. He is a strong man who will dodge no moral issues, and he will give us an honest and an efficient administration.

As a Progressive I believe in Nationalism. So does Hughes. I am certain that under Hughes the progressive policies will fare better than under Wilson, and that the safety, honor, and welfare of the country will be in immeasurably surer hands.