Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28
ROOSEVELT ASSAILS WILSON Attacks Him the Tariff and Labor Stand and Points to Need of Constructive Legislation Free Business from Confusion. ..-

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt wount up busy day in Denver Tuesday, de, livering his third speech in that city on behalf of Charles E. Hughes. The Colonel spoke in the auditorium or the same platform with the womer campaisners on the Hughes Special
 He was accorded an enthusiastic re- ception at the station on his arrival 4 parade through the business dis trict followed.
 Military and industrial preparedness was the topic of the Coloners address He assailed the Wilson Adminisrra- tion for "debauching" the civil service and for failure to provide adequate tariff protection against the great trade competition to follow the war He declared that the Republican party stood for the freedom of legitimate business, with better working condi- tions and returns and protection for employees. Colonel Roosevelt said in part:
 l speak to you especially of the prime duty of self defense I abhor unjust and wanton5 war Shall al- MaYs do, as I always have dong! sa1vf ] erythi17g to secure honora ble and last ing peace. But it is f5lly to say that we shall never be engaged in war. The events of the last two years show that as the world now is, such an as- sumption by any nation is not only folly, but criminal folly. Our prime duty IS so to prepare as to minimize the number of occasions when war will come and to insure that when it does come it shall result neither dis honorably nor disastrously for the American people. At this moment we are not ready in any way, physically or spiritually, to face a serious fee We owe this Iamentable fact to several causes, but especially to the evil leadership given our people in high places. MT Wilson has not only been too proud to fight, but has also been too proud to prepare
 Military preparedness is only the foundation of and safeguard for social and industrial preparedness; and therefore for tlIe effort ito increase our individual efficiency and at the same ficiency are divided with reasonable fairness and justice.
 MT Wilson recently said that the supports of MT. Hughes included in conSruous elements. The Demo- cratic party, with Mir, Wilson at it's head, is itself composed of utterly con- Hlcting elements with no sincere bond of union except the desire to secure Federal office. In conseouence, the in ternal legislation Mir Wilson has ob- tained has had to be obtained bv the exchange of offices for congressional support: and, as 9 result, the Federal civil service has been deJba uched as never before, and Washington has wit messed the worst administration of the executive departments we have had for thirty years. If specifications are needed, l refer you to the statements Of dIspassionate, nonpartisan experts in administration, such men as Clifford PInchot Ducius Swift and William Dudley Foulke -i
 Tariff Wall" Raised by War.
 There are certain things for which MT. Wilson and his party claim credit where credit can only be awarded them by emphasizing the duplicitv of their action. The banking law is a good law in certain of it's provisions; but Elese provisions are these of the Aldrich bill, which before election the Democrats so frantically denounced. They denounced in similar fashion a tariff commission and an industrial commission: and they are now in rather 1mpotent fashion feeling after both. They have passed a child labor law (which is so drawn, however, that it may be utterly ineffective) after Mir. Wilson had empfatically declared against it. They champion law which will make the needed revival of our shipping by private enterprise more difficult than ever. The tariff law was working ruin to our industry un-'
 
 more protective than any we have ever previously had.
 The President is astute and far sighted in his management of politi- clans for party and personal ends. He believes that the solid south will vote Or anything with the Democratic label wholly without regard to the principle involved. The solid South is ultra conservative: but inasmuch as in the South the negro and the poor white aborer are both of them unorganized, 4 Tn appeal to the class followers of rades unionism in the North does not listurb MT. Wilson's power in the South. In consequence the Deniocra- ic party under MT. Wilson's leader 'hip seeks to develop as a radical la DOT party in the North, so as there to capitalize the" labor vote, while re- reactionary in the South, and to reassure the big money interests because of what the South l an do in national matters.
 The absolute lack of any construc- i've policy in MT. Wilson's leadership 1 omes out strikingly in his attitude to- yard business. His platform pledges, f course, amount to nothing on this 1 'oint, or for that matter on any other !