The Forum (1919) (14595184957) - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: theforum62newy (find matches)
Title: The Forum
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York, N.Y.: (Events Pub. Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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se thrills of ambition for internationalsupremacy that have since mystified and entertained theworld. Great credit is due a man who has the gifts of leader-ship. We admire the magic of his skill. We, the minoritybystanders in the House and the Senate at that time,watched the perplexing moods of the Democratic majoritywith curiosity if not some alarm. So mystified were theeditors of the New York Press that in a moment of irresisti-ble reason they announced the election of Mr. Hughes. Well,that was a mistake. But, it did not enthuse the Democrats.It did crystallize the protests of the Atlantic Coast editors,in the Northern States, against our neutrality. To the people living there, the brutality and hideousnessof German warfare was practically on their doorsteps. Itwas in the East that the German spys operated chiefly. Theshipping life of the Atlantic Ocean is the common gossipof Broadway and Tremont Street. Those people knew thatour ships were being sunk, our crews were being killed, 6
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The New Shepherd 10 THE FORUM American women and children were being drowned—withapologies from Germany, and polite assurances of forbear-ance from our own Government. With the murder of morethan a hundred citizens of this country on the Lusitania,the Western country was not yet fully aroused to the fullmeaning of the war. It was inconsistent for us to declarewar, they thought, when we had just registered our nationalvote of our abhorrence of war. I point to these facts be-cause their significance to the political affairs of the Demo-cratic party was alarming. The issue of self-determinationwas launched, the individual right of all nations to determinetheir own fate. For awhile, this absorbed our sentimentalinterest. While these academic tunes of altruistic sound continuedto soften the mad rumblings of war with their flute obbligato,the drama For the Safety of Democracy was conceived.We know now it was in three acts: (I), The War;(II), The Declaration of Peace ; (III), The Treaty of