The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-20
MY P0LICIES--T. R.
Roosevelt Says Wilson Copies
Him in Preparedness Plan.
But the President Does 1t in a
Half-Hearted Way.
USES TEDDY'S EZEKIEL STUFF
Same Authority Quoted in De-
nOuncing Professional Pacifists.
Bryan, Ford and Jordan
Dragged Over the Goals.

New York, Dec. 20.-Colonel Roose-
welt continues to deliver broadsides at
President Wilson and his administra-
ton, and in his latest article. entitled
America First-a Phrase or Fact"
which will appear in the January
number of the Metropolitan magazine,
he says that the president finally has
adopted his principle about prepared
ness, though seeking to apply it in a
half hearted manner
''The administration recently has
devised a new campaign catch phrase
Safety First one of the excerpts
from the Coloners article says. .It
certainly expresses their attitude in
putting honor and duty in the second
place, or rather in no place at ALL
Safety first. This is the motto on
which, in a shipwreck, those men act
who crowd into the lifeboats ahead of
the women and children"
In another excerpt the colonel
speaking of Mr.. Wilson's reputation
of his former position and declaring
that the president did not mean what
he said so far as regards a Nation of
which he was afraid was concerned,
writes:
T. RS Policies.
Mr.. Wilson, year later, finally has
adopted my principles about prepared
ness, although he has sought to apply
manner; a year after L denounced
peace at any price, he followed suit,
quoting the verses of Ezekiel which
for months 1 had been quoting; a year
after 1 had attacked hyphenated
Americanism, Mr.. Wilson followed suit
at least before the Colonial DANES;
and now he accepts my doctrine of
American duty to neutral nations,
which a year ago he opposed stoutly.
But he applies it only as American
lions who can be trusted not to be
rude. L believe it should be applied
as regards American dollars, but even
more as regards American lives, and
that it should first and most stoutly
be asserted as regards the chief and
most formidable offender.
g oh, well, anyhow the president
has kept us out of war; The people
who make this plea assert with quay
ering voices that they are behind the
PRESIDENT so they are, well behind
him. The farther away from the po-
sition of duty and honor and naza I'd
those gentry have stood-or run.
stand by the presidentr Yes, while
THE president is right; and stand
against him when he is wrong.
What Lincoln Did.
I'm $50 and 80 the only way to
stand by Lincoln was to stand against
Pierce and Buchanan-as Lincoln did.
If after the firing on Sumter Lincoln,
in speech, had declared that the
friends of Union might be too proud
to fight and mad spent the next four
months in eXcha nging firm diplo-
matte notes with Jefferson Davis, he
would have received the enthusiastic
support of the ardent adherents of
peace-and he now would have had
no country"
again on the president and the Me1li-
can policy. He says, however. that he
is making no party assault, but that
the present administration has done
what Mr.. Taft did, and that MIR. Taft
has gone out of his way to commend
Mr. Wilson.
Professional PacifiSts.
Professional pacifists of the stamp
of Bryan, Jordan and Ford, Colonel
Roosevelt says, work hand in glove
with those opponents of hyphenated
who are seeking to turn
this country into an ally and tool of
alien n1ilitarism.
''An of Mr.. Henry Ford's compan-
ions in the peace propaganda, led by
gentlemen of the Bryan and Jordan
type, could with profit study the
thoughts expressed by Mr.. E. S. Mar
tin when he said: Whether there are
more people in the world or less;
whether they are fat or lean, makcc
no vital difference; but whether men
shall be willing 20 die for what they
believe in, makes all the difference
between n pigsty and paradise Not
by bread alone. Henry, shall men