New Britain herald., 1915-05-18
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"Colonel Roosevelt's Violence.
(Chicago Tribune.)

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt is rec ognized as a case of violent righteous ness. He constantly indulges him. self in the rare enjoyment of unmod- flied opinion. That is force. Force never compromises, never adjusts it. self to Judgment, never is considerate of circumsta or of consequence, but always is force.
 The colonel has had and has his very valuable place in our scheme of things as a force. It is a luxury that all citizen cannot indulge because III notifications and reservations also have their place in the scheme of things, and the right to be down right and unconlpromising must be restricted. We have given the colonel full sway in this highly particularized right, and have allowed him to damn with unction and condemn without mercy because it was valuable to have some one so highlyvitalized on that particular work.
 But the colonel is pursuing his an- cient habit now with less felicity than usually at1nospheres his efforts We have not needed the torch-bearer in this crisis which has confronted us. We have needed the sane counsels of the elder tribesmen the men who knoN life through experience, and who have seen cause and consequence. We have not needed the war dance or the rum ner with tidings We have needed composure and restraint.
 Therefore when the colonel as an unmitigated and uncompromising force gives his opinions freedom and 1nf 1rnc 4<, l., T T, is doing the American nation harm. It is at once waste of time and a necessary use of it to say that he is the best-knoWn American 1t is as- sured that whenever he says his full opinion upon an absorbing subject that expression will go wherever wires or wireless can carry it to interested peoples. million Americans might rave, yet register none of the effect that this one American will imprint on universal sensitiveness
 And we think that when the govern ment of the United States is endeav- ing to decide to tn bestfo etaoin shr ing to decide to the best of it's ability question which holds the dignity of the nation and the happiness and use. fulness of hundreds or thousands of s1il5 SSASIdIIOu fAlHSllCauS -Wn1Ch concerns the future of the United States, MT. Roosevelt might for once qualify his righteousness, abate his opinions and control his utterances.
 We realize that he has said what is in the minds of a great many of his countrymen, but we ask them to ac- cept this statement of the difference between hi n1and them He is willing to back his word with all the force he however filled with torture for him. self and suffering for his family, and we doubt that the majority of our other vociferents are.
 We ask every ranter to regard him. self, in consequence of his ranting, in the trenches with a respirator over his nostrils, Springfield in his hands waiting for the suffocating cloud of poisonous gases. to roll by and reveal a surge of charging Germans.
 We do not ask him to be afraid of that. If Americans be afraid of that then God help the American nation; but we do ask the persons of uncon1- promising opinion and vehement de- nand for final action to put them selves, and not some other fellow, in the way of carrying out the policy they advocate. It is no mitigation of the mischief Col. Roosevelt is capable of doing to say that he would ac> cept personally the chances, but it reveals consistency and nobility in his character.