New Britain herald., 1915-04-19


 bune.)
 Party had been fearing has burst, but
 rot under the peace ship in which
 delegates are sailing to the conference
 in Holland, but in the form of
 written denunciation of the party by Theodore Roosevelt. The letter which Roosevelt wrote to Mrs. George Eublee, of Washington, contains many strong words of the short and ugly nature. But the women are not daunted. Mrs. Amos Pinchot and Mrs. Henry Willard, perhaps the most prominent members of the WOman's
 Peace Party now in this country, gave
 evidence in interviews rnat when
 necessary they can stand up and fight
 fer their principles.
 There was a quiet sarcasm in Mrs. Villard's manner as she pointed out
 that it was strange that man |ho once received the Nobel prize for ad- vancing peace should now turn so nos tile a face toward a movement when ilas universal peace as it's one object And Mrs. Pinchot was almost as scath- irg in some of the things she had to say. Tn answer to Roosevelt's refer eDce to those who stood on the wrong
 side of public matters during the Civil War, she stated that if the colonel had lived then he would have been one of those who tried to force Lincoln s hand She feels sure also that if
 Roosevelt had lived several thousand years ago he would have resisted to
 the last any attempt to allow laws to
 be made to settle disputes.
 Roosevelts Letters.
 Base silly futile cowardly- these are some of the words which occur and then re-occur' in the letter which Roosevelt wrote to Mrs. Rublee. He says: 'I emphatical1y advise you not to join such an organization. The l platform of principles inclosed in your 1 letter seems to be both silly and base" 1 Evidently he wished to show a spirit | os discrimination, however, for he l goes on to say: "This does not mean I that all those signing it and cham ] pioning it arc silly and base. It is un- l fortunately true that the very worst ! movements in human history have l sometimes had very high-minded men l and women enlisted in their support. Fifty years ago the Copperheads l of the north held exactly the views 1 about peace which are set forth in the l platform you incloscd and to a man | they voted against Abraham Lincoln. l They did all they could to break up l the Union and to secure the triumph Of slavery, because they put peace as 1 the highest of all gods, just exactly as it is put by the people who have con- structed that paper you sent me. Moreover, a very large proportion l of the peace e-at-any-price or Copper l head sympathizers were undoubtedly l physical towards and equally un- | douotedly a very large proportion of ] o-pacificists of today who uphold l such views as those outlined in the l paper you inclosed, in championing l peace without regard to righteousness l are really most influenced by physical l cowardice. They fear death or pain l or discomfort beyond everything else l and like to hide their fear behind high l sounding words.
 l Not one particle of good will be l obtained by any such action as that
 outlined in that paper you sent. But ! that is not all. It is base as we'll as ! futile. There is nothing more repul-
 sive than to see people agitating foI
 general righteousness in the abstract 1 when they dare not stand up against
 r-ickedness in the concrete"
 Mrs. Willard wrote out this state.
 ment in reply to MT. Roosevelt: