New Britain herald., 1915-04-19
Womans Peace Party Leaders Answer What They Call ROosevelt'S Bad Manners They Claim His Disposition Has Been Soured - Mrs Pinchot and Mrs. Willard Join in At
 tacking Him.

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 of the Woman's Peace party comes
 with bad grace from one who IS the
 possessor of the Nobel prize. We all
 know that it is true that militarism-
 not peace-is now the aim of his ann
 bition; sorry one, indeed. in view of
 the present world agony which stirs
 the souls of all those who love their
 fellow beings.
 MT. Roosevelt exalts physical
 bravery-such as the killing ot
 enemies because of difference of
 opinion-above the moral courage that
 scorns the use, of means so base for
 any purpose whatsoever.
 Has the world sunk so low that
 We cannot hope to substitute for the
 doing of evil that good may come
 and 'an eye for an eye and tooth
 for a tooth the touching doctrine
 that we must love our enemies and do
 good to those who persecute us? The heroic effort now being made by the women of all countries 10 come together at The Hague. in order to ex-
 press their horror of the brutality of
 war, is worthy of all praise. Women are far greater sufferers from war than men, and today they are voicing their protest against it, a protest that VIII pe IiedIu
 Letter Shows His Worst Faults. "One would think to read MT. Roosevelt's letter that the Woman $ Peace party was Mir. Taft or MT. Will son. said Mrs. Pinchot. '"The letter shows his worst faults. It indicates | bad manners as we'll as bad temper. "The object of the Woman's Peace l Party is to do away with war. Mir. 1 Roosevelt is not in sympathy with 1 that ideal. Evidently he believes that war is, in itself, a good thing. That 1 conclusion is inevitable after reading l this letter. If Roosevelt had lived l some thousands of years ago, when | all disputes were settled by fighting 1 and there was TO right except that | which came through might he would l have been against the forming of any | laws, by which men could settle their ! differences without killing each other. ! For force, not for law, he would have stood.
 During the Civil war Roosevelt would have been among those who | tried to force Lincoln's hand. Lincoln ! was passivist as long as he could be. 1 He didn't rush into war in the bull
 headed way which Roosevelt seems to 1 1 when everythingelse had failed. There were those, it will be remembered, l who called Lincoln names for this at 1 titude of his.
 Little Elsc Than Vitupcration. l Abuse of those who differ in 1 opinion from one is a poor substitute | for argument. But it is to abuse that 1 Mr. Roosevelt has resorred in this | letter. In fact, I find it difficult to answer something which is little less
 than vituperation. It is fortunate that
 the people of America as a whole do
 uot share his views on war and peace
 any more than they do on other ques- 1 tions. He is known now as rather | superficial thinker
 l Probably his extreme irritation is ! caused by MT. Wilson's wise policy of | neutrality. One of the most fortunate l things in the history of our country
 iu the fact that today we have for i president a man like Wilson. If we ! had not had a man of his calibre of l mind and heart we might have found ! ourselves entanged in this horrible
 war.
 "It will take more than words of
 abuse to make the women of the 1 world sit quietly back and let war go
 on without protest.
 1 "Roosevelt, it must be remembered, | rever believed in woman suffrage i until he saw the power of women
 and wished their support.