The Washington times., 1915-12-08
WILSON EATS own
WORDS, SAYS 7. R.
Asserts President Lacks Con-
structive Ideas and Makes
Words Cover lnaction.

NEW YORK, Dec. s.-col. Theodore
Roosevelt, in a statement ISSUED VIZ"
| reading the Presidents message OF yes
| terday, took issue with the Chief Ex-
ec,,tiye's stand upon every point men
| toned. with the exception OF the at
| tack upon hyphenatcd Americana.
| Even there. he said. the remedy lay
| in the hands of the President, VINO
! has met a policy Of blood ana iron
with a policy of milk and water"
The President, he said, Is In elocu-
ton "a Byzantine logothete-ano by
zantine logothetes were not men OF ac-
tion. Mr.. Wilson's actions are IN nat
contradiction" he said. "A policy OF
disbonorable inaction,'- Is his sweeping
| indictment of the Presidents course.
The statement says In part; y,uou
spesking of the war, says We have
Stood apart. studiously neutral. II was
| our manifest duty tc do So rurther
on he says: We ins,st Upon upon seGuritS y,sn ~
| national development. We do mere
than that. We demand IT also for
others Later he says: we regara war
people against aggression, and con.
finues, we are fercely Jealous
| of aggression from without
What does Mr.. Wilson mean when
in one line he says that we nave
cause 1t was our manifest duty to do
so and a couple of paragraphs later
says that we demand security in
prosecuting their self-chosen lines OF
national development for others? He
can take either OF the two positions.
but he cannot take both. Did or did
not Mr.. Wilson demand security for
Belgium to prosecute ITS self-chosen
lines Of national Development He
J-,,~ he
he mean by saying that we demand
this security also for othersT Again,
he says that he regards war as a
means of asserting the rights Of a
he says that. It v as our duty to re-
main studiouFly neutral when Bel
gium asserted the rights Of her peo-
pie by war against the aggression Of
Germany.
"DishonOrable Inaction."
''How does he reconcile these two
statements? He cannot do so. He is
using words to cover a policy Of dis
honorable inaction. Again, he says
that we are 'fiercely jealous OF ag-
gression from without How did he
show his fierce jealousy as regards
the aggressions on the Lusitaria and
Ancona, which resulted in the loss OF
several scores and the jeopardy of
hund dreds of American lives? How
has he shown his fierce jealousy as
regards the sixty or seventy soldiers
wearing the American uniform not to
speak OF the women and children and
civilians. killed or wounded on Amer
lean soil by Mexican bullets? One
symptom OF his fierce jealousy to
prevent aggression from without
men should not fire back when fred
upon. Does Mr. Wilson regard that
order as fierce jealousy?' 1t does not
strike any other human being as such.
"Pitiless Publicity"
Three years ago Mr.. Wilson said
he believed in the policy of 'pftiless
publicity We have never had as Sc
cretive an Administration. The exact
numbers of the soldiers of the United
States army who have been killed or
wounded by Mexicans cannot be told.
because Mr.. Wilson won't permit the
| figures to be made public. Neither is
1t possible to ascertain the exact num-
| bers of the American men, women and
children who have been killed or out
ragged in person or property in Mexico,
because Mr.. Wilson for three years has
hindered all publicity. pitiless or pitiful.
about these outrages in Mexico. Mr..
| ton are In flat contradiction. His elocu-
ton is that Of Byzantine Logothete-
and Byzantine Logothetes were not
| men Of action
been put to the test in the case of Mex
| leo and have stood the test and that
we have applied heroic principle to
the case of Mexico; OF all possible ad-
lish language by the most minute sea rch
| on the part of the most subtle dialec-
| tican it would not be possible to find
| one more inappropriate to the Admins
4 ~ nrfa in.
jectiye heroic Nearly three years ago
Mr.. Wilson refused to recognize Huerta
| on the ground that we were never to
reoGsmise rfeIanns founded on
| Villa, who represented the embodiment
] of violence 1t being meanwhile assert
ed on behalf of the Administration that
| under no circumstances would we deal
| with Carranza, whose government like
wise was founded on violence.
Says Wilson EATS Own Words.
"The President has now eaten his
words and recognized Carranza; and
through his private secretary he has
issued defense Of and apology for
the outrages committed by the Car
ranzistas and by the other bandits OF
the other factions in Mexico, outragef
as infamous as ever were committed
by savages anywhere under the sun
Mr.. Wilson refused to employ the
power oI tne Dnted states TO protect
| the lives of American men and the
honor of American women or to save
those wearing the United States uniform
| from death or from insult. He took nc
| steps to save Mexican and foreign
women, including nuns, married womer
and unmarried women, when they were
| subjected to outrages and infamies
which make the white slave traffic seen
| trivial by comparison. But he now uses
| the power of the United States to heIr
| one set of the bandits responsible fol
| these infamies against another set
| In his present message President
| Wilson advocates as necessary certain
propositions for putting this country In
| a state of preparedness to defend itself
| against foreign aggression. In his mes
| sage one year ago he said such promo.
| sitions were hysterical and improper.
| am glad that he mas changed his mind
| but l am sorry that he has not taker
| tho trouble to study the subject so as
| to make his proposals reasonably ade,
| quate to the country's need. His pro,
posed enlargement of the regular army
| Is utterly Inadequate.
| The proposed continentaP amry can
| not produce good results. 1t is a pro
posal that few of the young men OF tha
| country shall for two months every
year abandon their work and in the in.
| terest of the common defense train them.
| selves TO defend their successful husi-
| ness rivals who decline to nb1ndon
their Crk in the interest of the com.
NOR defense.
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