Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-01
ROOSEVELT PUTS
WILSON IN CLASS
With MRS. CAESAR
Former President Says it is the
Duty of the Executive to
Avoid ALI Reasonable
Suspicion.
TALKS AT BATTLE CREEK
Says False Servants Of the Peo-
pie Have Betrayed the
Soul of Nation.
HE CANNOT KEEP SILENT

he OANNOl ACGI NAA1N
Battle Creek, Mich, Sept. 30.-For-
mer President Theodore Roosevelt
put President Wilson and Caesars
wife in the same class when he ad.
dressed a large audience here in sup.
port of Charles Evans Hughes, the
republican candidate for PRESIDENT
here this afternoon.
at was the presidents duty as well
as Mrs. Caesars to escape reasonable
suspicion of wrongdoing; should he
or any other official tell US: If you
knew the facts you wouldn't blame
me, we have ready answer: Give
US the facts and we'll see.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he found it no
longer possible to keep silent when
he saw where Wilson policies were
leading the nation. In telling of his
restraint, the et-president said:
81 never uttered one word of crit.
icism of President Wilson until year
and half after he was elected presi-
dent. II he had stood by the honor
and the interest of the American pco-
pie, would have thrown up my hat
for him, and would have supported
him, heart and soul. not merely
kept silent during the first eighteen
months or two years. ! tried actively
to support him. The only errors |
have made in connection with Mr.,
Wilson we're due to incautiously ac-
cepting his statements and supporting
his policies in the effort to stand by
the president 1t was with deep re-
luctance that was forced to the con-
clusion that the effort to stand by
him was incompatible with standing
by the interests of mankind, and the
honor of this nation. But in my view
there was no alternative for an honor
able man, when once became con-
vinced, as | am convinced, that the
conscience Of this people has been
scared, and its moral sense dulled by
the leadership Of the administration
and OF congress during the last three
years. These false servants OF the
people have taught US to enjoy soft
ease and swollen wealth in the pres-
ent without taking one effective step
to ward off ruinous disaster in the fu-
ture. These false servants of the peo-
pie have betrayed the soul of the ma
ton.
That Peace Bogey.
.'The supporters Of Mr.. Wilson say
that the American people should vote
for him because he has kept us out of
war. 1t is worth while to remember
that this is claim that cannot be adj
vanced either on behalf Of Washing
ton or OF Lincoln. Neither Washing
ton or Of Lincoln kept us out OF war,
Americans, and the people Of the
world at large, now reverence the
memories of these two men, because,
and only because, they put righteous
ness before peace. They abhorred
war. They Stunned unjust or wanton
or reckless war. But they possessed
that stern valor of patriotism which
bade them put duty first; not safety
first; which babe them accept war
rather than an unrighteous and disas-
trous peace. There were peace-ats
any price men in the days OF Wash>
ington. They we're the Tories. There
were peace-at-any-price men IN the
days OF Lincoln. They were the Cop
perheads. The men who. now with
timid hearts and quavering voices
praise Mr.. Wilson for having kept Us
out of war, are the spiritual heirs OF
the Tories OF l776, and the Copper
heads of 1864. The men who followed
Washington at Trenton and York
town, and who suffered with him
through the winter at Valley Forge;
and the men who wore the Blue un-
der Grant and the gray under Lee;
were men OF valor, who sacrificed
everything to serve the right as II was
given them to see the right. They
spurned with contemptuous indigna-
tion the counsels of the feeble and
cowardly folk who in their day spoke
for peace-at-any-price.
president Wilson by his policy Of
tame submission to insult and injury
from all whom he feared has invited
the murder of our men, women and
children by the Mexican bandits on
land, and by German submarines on
the sea. He has spoken much of the
New Freedom In international
practice this has meant freedom for
the representatives Of any foreign
power to murder American men, and
outrage American women unchecked
by the president.
Ignoble Examples.
Mexico offers the most striking in.
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