The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25
The Bryan Propaganda is Again
Subject of Anathema by
Colonel Roosevelt.

Tho following excerpts are from
an article in the August number OF
the Metropolitan Magazine by Theo-
li1Ure Roosevelt and are reprinted In
the Telegram by special permission.
I(COPYRIGHTED BY THE METRO
& POLITAN MAGAZINE COMPANY
In the thirty-third chapter OF the
great prophet Ezekiel, the first SIX
verses run as follows:
l. Again the word of the Lord
came unto me, saying.
q Son of man, speak to the chill
kiren OF thy people, and say unto them,
when bring the sword upon land,
III the people OF the land take a man
iof their coasts, and set him Tor the
gwatchman;
5. II when he seeth the sword
come upon the land, he blow the
trumpet and warn the people;
A. Then whosoever heareth the
sound OF the trumpet, and taketh not
warning, If the sword come and take
him away, his blood shall be upon his
own head;
s. He heard the sound of the trum-
pet, and took not warning; his blood
shall be upon him. But he that taketh
warning shall deliver his soul.
. 6. But If the Waterman see the
sword come, and blow not the trum-
pet and the people be not warned;
IL the sword come and take any per-
tson from among them, he is taken
away In his fniquity; but his blood
Twill 1 require at the watchman's
hand.
very heartily commend these
verses to the prayerfel consideration
of all those in high political Office.
whether presidents. secretaries OF
house at Washington; and to all
male and female college presidents,
Il cIergymen, editors and publicists of
pacifst tendency; and above all to
4 the sometimes well meaning souls
I VINO have fallen victims to the habit
\ of prolonged and excessive indulgence
in attending universal peace meetings
and giving, and listening to. lectures
on immediate universal peace and dis
armament.
Moral Timidity.
There are persons who are against
preparedness for war land who be-
lieve In the avoidance of national
duty, who nevertheless are honest in
their belief and who may not be cow
ardly or weak, but only foolish and
misguided; and there are hundreds of
thousands OF good and reasonably
brave men and women who simply
have not thought of the matter at all
and who are misguided by their leau-
ers But of most of these leaders 1t
ds not possible to take SO charitable
q view. The fundamental character
istic of the peace at any price men
is sheer, downright physical or moral
timidity. Very many OF the leaders
among the men who protest against
preparedness and who are hostile to
manly action on our part-host1le to
the insistence in good faith upon the
observance of The Hague conventions
and upon respect for the lives and
property of our citizens in Mexico
and on the high seas-are easily cow
ed by any exhibition of ruthless ana
brutal force, and never venture TO
condemn wrongdoers who make them
selves feared. This fact might just
as we'll be faced. To it is due the
further fact that the professional
pacifst usually turns up as the ally
of the most cynical type of interna-
tional wrongdoer.
This has been made evident by the
attitude of the great bulk of the men
and women who have shrieked loud
est for peace during the last eleven
months. It has been made evident by
the men who have Joined in the peace
conferences, peace dinners and peace
congresses during that time, and by
the women of the same type who on
this side of the water, or after trav-
cling to the other side of the water,
have advocated a peace without honor
or Justice. These men and women
have demanded peace in terms that
would not merely disregard righteous
ness, but that would crown upright
eousness with success. They have
not ventured to make one protest
against any concrete act of wrong
doing; they have not ventured to
raise their voices In denunciatton of
iniquity wrought by Germany against
Belgium, the most wanton, the most
1lideous wrong, and the wrong on the
largest scale. that has been perpe-
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