Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-12-15
THE LETTER.
MY DEAR WooDRow

MY DEAR WOODROW
again address you in this friendly
manner the better to establish be-
tween ourselves that spirit of cordial
ity which | SO tactfully gave express
sion to in my last letter.
My heart is wrung with anguish
when | think that my generous offer
| of last week was not made in time to
save you the humiliation of present
ing to congress such weak and i'm
beetle message as you had the mis-
fortune to hand out. Had | come to
the rescue at an earlier moment you
would have been spared this, or had
you but referred to my many letters
you might have escaped the pitfall
into which you allowed yourself to be
dragged. 1t requires no Sherlock
Holmes to reduce the fact that this
message was composed under the
influence of the Chautauqua spirit, p"
| as one of your enemies has expressed
it, | can see Bryan's fingers all
through the message, especially those
| paftsdevoted to anti-armameht Had
you read my letter of August and
treasured its contents you would have
had very different message. You
could have made use Of the arguments
| advanced by me for an increase of
army and navy, ana which idea l
claim as being originally mine, al
though the Chicago Tribune and one
or two other papers have since at
tempted to claim the credit therefor.
II may be that my generous offer to
accept the portfolio Of secretary OF
state did not reach you in time to
save you from these awful blunders
into which the statesman from the
Platte river has led you, and contri-
ton fills my heart when 1 realize
that the fault has been mine.
tits not alone on what you were
made to say, but Also the things that
you left unsaid. Your silence on the
Mexican question has afforded your
enemies an opportunity to attack you
and your policies, and 1 note that Col
Roosevelt has not overlooked the OPP,
portunity for pulling out his big stick
and going after you in his usual
bloodthirsty manner. have a sus-
picion that Roosevelt has spy in the
White House and that he in some
manner secured possession of copy
of my letter to you of May %, in
which l explained the weakness OF
your ''watchful waiting, policy and
suggested remedy for the troubles
into which you had been led by in
competent advisors | am inclined te
this belief by reason of the fact that
the colonel made use of many of the
same arguments advanced by me at
that time, although l am compelled
to say that he die not couch his ex.
| preSSions in the same scholarly style,
with the same tact and diplomacy
| that you will find in the letter of the
date referred to. His arguments as
a whole are very similar to those you
| had chance to pass upon in my let
| ters and the words "often furtive, .
as referring to your policy are stolen
bodily from my letter.
| L regret that inadvertently we have
furnished this man with so much
dangerous ammunition, safe enough in
our hands and for friendly discussion,
but dangerous in the hands of one of
his temperament
The real trouble with you, Wood
row, is that you ale too tender heart
ed. You cannot be brought to a
realization of the fact that stern
measures are necessary in crisis of
of this nature. 'Thipk~ef the vast
property interests at ssass, the pos
,si5le great financial loss to. American
investors, the indemnity foreigners
may demand. and do not allow these
to be oyerShadowe1 by a few scruples
about shedding human blood. at
worst it would only be the blood
Of few Niexicans and possibly of a
few of our common people, and the
Lord knows We have too many
common people now, besides, which
many of them are only Bull Moosers.
When get TO Washington / will
set you right oil these important
matters OF ,states but in the mean
while dc not allow this man Bryan 10
lead you into the jungles, as the