WILSON’S RECKLESS ENTHUSIASM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 43, 22 February 1915, Page 4

WILSON’S RECKLESS ENTHUSIASM.

President Wilson’s Indianapolis speech at the beginning of January was to say the least surprising, and the fuller reports of it now to hand show that the cabled reference did not give a wrong impression of his actual words. Republicans, he said, had no enthusiasms, and that was where they differed from him, for he had almost a reckless enthusiasm for human liberty.

The people of -Mexico were entitled to determine who should govern them. “It is none of my business, and it is none of your business how long they take in determining it. It is none of my business, and none of your business how they go about the business.

. . So far as rny influence goes, while 1 am President, nobody shall interfere with them. That is what 1 mean by a great emotion, the great emotion of sympathy. . . Have not European nations taken as long as they wanted, and spilled as much blood as they pleased, in settling their affairs, and shall we deny that to Mexico because she is weak? Xo, I say, I am pi'oud to belong to a strong nation that says ‘This country, which we could crush, shall have just as much freedom in her own affairs as we have. If I am strong, I am ashamed to bully the weak. In proportion to my strength is my pride in withholding that strength from the oppression of another people.” The President’s attitude is a strange one, but it is in keeping with the vacillating and uncertain stand he has taken in all matters where a strong man woull have acted many times since the outbreak of the present war.