Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-30
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a district where the farming interests
are supreme.
President Is Cowardly,
Roosevelt Iterates in
Scathing Arrangement

New York, Oct. 80. Theodore
Roosevelt, in an address at the Brook
lyn Academy OF Music Saturday night,
declared that if Saturday was what
Our Democratic friends" cali Wilson
Day." it should be Appointed day of
fasting and humiliation"
For during these past three years. :
he went on, the people of the United
States have eaten the bitter bread of
shame and trod the paths of dishonor
under the leadership of Mr.. Wilson,"
The Colonel directed most of his at
tack against the recent declaration of
Mr.. Wilson that the present was the
last great world war that the United
States can keep out of, said:
We have never had any candidate
for so high an Office who was so utter
ly Indifferent to the reversal of all his
professed convictions or principles
and, above all, so Indifferent to the fiat
contradiction between his words and
his acts on almost every issue of real
importance before the people"
After quoting the Presidents words
in regard to this country and the next
war, Mr.. Roosevelt added:
Never have we had greater de-
gree of insincerity and hypocrisy than
is contained in such a plea for re-
election by the President who has
himself practiced the coldest and most
selfesh neutrality when all these
things that he in the abstract con-
demns were in the concrete commit
ted at the expense of Belgium and of
the Armenians and of the Syrian
Christians"
Taking up the Presidents appeal
for support on the ground that he has
kept us out of war" Mr.. Roosevelt de-
clared that if it was just to keep out
of the present war, then it would be
just then in future to keep out of all
g m n
the other hand, is right in saying that
we never shall keep out of any such
wars in the future, then he condemns
himself for keeping out of this war"
Mr.. Wilson's delay and vacillation
about preparedness" he said. have cost
us seven years in time and needless
billions of dollars in money. Nine
tenths of the wisdom is being wise in
time" Mr. Wilson's own Cincinnati
speech, he said, is a more severe ar
raignment than any outsider could
make of the criminal folly" of his ad-
ministration in refusing to begin to
prepare" two years and a quarter ago
when the war broke out.
Refers to U-Boat'S Visit
The appearance of the submarines
our own harbors, Mr.. Roosevelt de-
clared, showed a sudden attack by
them might leave us without any navy
before any declaration of war was
made.
Remember" he said, that half the
wars of modern times have been be-
gun prior to formal declarations of
war"
Thanks to Mr.. Wilson," he con-
tinued, "our unpreparedness in naval
and military matters is appalling and
our dereliction in duty to humanity at
large shocking beyond description. But
our spiritual unpreparedness, thanks
to Mr.. Wilson, is even greater than our
physical unpreparedness.
The too proud to fight doctrine is a
cloak behind which the coward hides.
1t has been the chief cause responsible
for the spread of the spirit of diSoyal-
ty in the United States among those
who openly or secretly believe in a
divided citizenship. No man will be
permanently loyal to a country that is
too proud to fight" he said.
In closing Colonel Roosevelt de-
clared President Wilson's whole course
has been wrong and that it no more
follows we must get into the next war
than that we would have got into this
if we had protested vigorously the mo-
ment Belgium's neutrality was threat
ened with violation.