Wilson Has Kept Technical Peace.

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The cause for which the Republican party is fighting this year is one peculiarly dear to Harvard men who have vanquished the vaunted spectre of indifference and who feel themselves called to a wider, nobler, service than that to which the usual political program leads. For, after all, the tariff, the merchant marine and civil service reform, however long and heatedly they may be discussed are not the dominant issues of this campaign. The pivot on which the election really turns is the maintenance of the national spirit, of that love of liberty which does not seek to become license that has made America great in times past.

The President has kept a purely technical peace which no one ever sought to interrupt, but he has, in doing it, lowered America in the eyes of the world to a point which no civilized Caucasian nation ever reached before. The American government has not one friend among the peoples of the world today, and those who dare to maintain that American ideals are as sound as they ever were can only plead that the present administration does not represent the true state of public opinion in the country. If we are not to stand self-confessed as willing to surrender to anyone who may threaten us, be they labor leaders within our borders or arrogant governments without, it is absolutely necessary that we turn the Democratic party out of office on November 7, and every college man who desires that his native land shall once more take her place in the march of progress, with only secondary regard for comfort or material gain, but with an eye primarily to the ultimate good of humanity, can accomplish much towards that end by working and voting for the election of Charles E. Hughes. E. P. WARNER '16.