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Elihu Root and Theodore Roosevelt, have been outspoken in their denunciation of the violation of Belgium and the ruthless submarine warfare of Germany, and Mr. Hughes has publicly approved of what they have said. We cannot deny that we wish that he had been still more outspoken, that he had devoted in his campaign speeches as much time and vigor to the European question as he has to the Mexican problem and to the industrial and economic questions of our domestic life. But, to use President Cleveland's phrase, it is "a condition and not a theory which confronts us" in the present campaign.

The country knows Mr. Wilson's record during two years of the war. His policy has been expressed by one of his supporters, ex-President Eliot, of Harvard College, in the following sentence: "America has now turned its back on the familiar policy of Rome and Great Britain of protecting or avenging their wandering citizens by force of arms, and has set up quite a different policy of her own "-which appears to us to be a policy of passive and vacillating neutrality. The pro-German party in the United States are opposed to this passive neutrality because it is not pro-German, and they are turning to Mr. Hughes, their only alternative, because they are willing to "take a chance;" because they know what Mr. Wilson's policy is, and they have a mistaken hope that Mr. Hughes's

policy may be more pro-German and therefore preferable.

We admit frankly that the pro-German support of Mr. Hughes is distasteful to The Outlook. We are so radically opposed to Schrecklichkeit, to Machtpolitik, to Prussian ideals, to Prussian methods of warfare, and to the Prussian political propaganda which has existed in the United States during the past two years-we believe that this is all so inimical to the principles of democratic freedom in which this country was founded that we regret to have such men as our correspondent feel that Mr. Hughes is yielding in any degree to the Prussian pressure.

But this regret does not in the slightest diminish our support of Mr. Hughes's candidacy. If Mr. Wilson is re-elected, we know what to expect during the next four years. If Mr. Hughes is elected, it is reasonable to expect from his record as an American executive and as an American judge and from his campaign speeches that he will not be a neutral President but an American President. He certainly cannot be less satisfactory than President Wilson in this respect, and he has every opportunity of being very much more satisfactory. We ask our correspondent if, even following the not very inspiring doctrine of chances, it is not wiser to vote for the policy of Mr. Hughes as it may be rather than the policy of President Wilson as it is.

THE MIDDLE WEST AND THE SUBMARINE WAR OFF OUR COAST

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE OUTLOOK

We print below two telegraphic despatches received in response to The Outlook's request for reports of the reception in the Middle West of the news of the submarine raid on neutral and other merchant vessels close to our coast and by a war-vessel which had just left an American port. The first is from the " Milwaukee Journal," of which Mr. L. W. Nieman is editor, the second from Mr. H. J. Haskell, of the Kansas City "Star." Both these journals are representative and able and in a position to reflect public sentiment truly, and the writers of the despatches are trained and capable newspaper men.-THE EDITORS.

Most persons are reluctant to talk. Those who do are apprehensive. They do not see how this can go on long without the gravest consequences. This sentiment is well expressed by the Rev. Dr. Paul B. Jenkins, who says: "It seems particularly repellent to have the European war brought to our threshold. The American mind will never be reconciled to forms of warfare involving the gravest danger to unarmed non-combatants."

Extreme pro-German sentiment is represented by two newspapers. The "Free Press" editorially acclaims the feat as "the forerunner of world deliverance from British sea tyranny." It prophesies that "if these German super-submarines can approximate what the U-53 has done on her first day at the job the British Government will soon be forced to sue for peace." The "Germanic (Continued on page following illustrations)

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THE NEW JAPANESE PREMIER, COUNT TERAUCHI The new head of the Japanese Cabinet is essentially a military man, having been Director of the Military Academy, Vice-Chief of the General Staff, Minister of War, and Governor-General of Korea. He is sixty-four years old. See editorial comment

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PHOTOGRAPH FUM HAUL THOMPSON

THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT AT THE
LATTER'S HOME IN INDIANAPOLIS

From left to right: Mrs. C. W. Fairbanks, Jr., Mrs. Timmins (daughter of Mr. Fairbanks), Mr. Hughes, Mrs. Hughes, and Mr. Fairbanks. The party were
photographed as they were on their way to church

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PRESIDENT WILSON ADDRESSING THE YOUNG MEN'S DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE AT HIS SUMMER HOME, SHADOW LAWN

COPYRIGHT BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD

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