The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-02-01
Former President During Address
In Brooklyn Bitterly Arraichs
Administration For ItssFslIure
To Protest Against Invasion
DECLARES TBUToNS HAVE
C0NTEMPTUo DEFlED US
Tells His Hearers Washington
HAS Brought lgnomlny Upon
County BY Attempt To Avoid
Its Legitimate Obligations
tA..oeIassd Prsss ~ Federal wirelss.l

lAssoeiatsd Press BY Federal wirslsssl
NJ.Ew YORK, January Si.-That
IN Germany has contemptuously
defed the government of the
UIted States time and time again since
the outbreak of the war, and that the
Wilson administration has acted a dis
honorable part in the world drama
which has filed the pages Of the his
tory of the last twenty months, was
the gist of the strenuous address made
BY former President Theodore Roose.
welt before crowded audience at the
Brooklyn institute Of arts and science
last night. -
strikes out Hard
The former Rough Rider, looking
pretty much the same as he has looked
for years, and speaking with. all Of his
accustomed vim and energy, struck
straight out from the shoulder, and was
wildly applauded by the large throng
which had turned ont to hear him.
He discussed the international erisfs
between this country and both groups
Of the warning nations in Europe, as
sefting that the policy Of the President
has been such as to satisfy neither side
to the war either at home or abroad,
and has simply doubled the difficulties
which this country has had to face,
without gaining any advantage which
might be supposed to accrue from a
strictly neutral attitude. ~&'lN r..
Outlines War History T. ...:'t.E
His. theme for the address was the
promise and performance of interha
tidfal obligations and relations, and he
held his hearers spell-bound while he
outlined the history of the war, and Of
the part America has played in the
European strife and in Mexico. BIZ
Speaking Of The hague peace tribu.
nal and the convention to which the
United States is a party, the former
president declared that nothing could
have been more dishonorable or coward
" than the stand Of inaetion taken
by the Wilson Administrations NJ
The United States was bound in hon.
or, he declared, to insist that the
treaties between Germany and Belgium
which protected the weaker nation
from pDa aggression Oh IHe stronger,
should be observed in spirit and in
letter. That the Washington govern
ment had done nothing, not even TO
fling protest against the action Of
Germany in overrunning Belgium de.
spite the struggle of the Belgians, was
a disgrace to the nation, asserted the
speaker, who was interrupted by re-
reated cheering.
Consequences Contempt aEs%
Continuing, Mr. Roosevelt took up the
consequences of this policy, which he
stigamtized as "supine, and declared
that ii had earned the contempt of all
nations. Germany, particular, 'he de-
clared, had shown how she regarded il.
by repeatedly fOuting the feeble pro
tests which the administration had fin
ally fled, and had gone on sinking un-
armed merchant ships carrying Amer
lean citizens about their lawful business
on the high seas. .at M
Washington, concluded the speaker.
dehed and ignored, sat still and did
nothing, save write further notes; which
brought nothing in the way of results
save further defiance. @.