Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-04
T.R. SAYS WILSON
COVERS NATIONS
Face WITH SHAME
Roosevelt Asserts President
Makes Adroit and Sinister
Appeal to Weak and
Unworthy.
DAzzLEs EYES OF OTHERS
Times Need a Washington or
Lincoln, But Have Only
q Buchanan.
UTTERED soRDID UNTRUTH

New York, Nov. 3.--Theodore
Roosevelt criticised President Wilson
in emphatic words this evening in an
address at Cooper Union, which he
delivered at the request of cam
paign organization of business men
who oppose the reelection of Mr..
Wilson. Taking as his subject, "Our
Nations Crisis" Colonel Roosevelt
said that world cataclysm has over
whelmed civilization and that the
times have needed Washington or
a Lincoln, but unfortunately we have
been granted only another Buchanan" /"
II have been assailed," said the
speaker, because | have criticised
Mr.. Wilson. have not said one thing
of him that was not absolutely truth
full. have criticised him because
believe he has dragged in the dust
what was most sacred in our past and
has jeopardized the most vital hopes
of our future.
Appeals to Unworthy.
II criticise him now because he
has adroitly and cleverly and with
sinister ability appealed to all that is
weakest and most unworthy in the
American character, and also because
he has sought to lead many men and
women, who are neither weak nor un-
worthy, but who have been misled by
a shadow dance with words. He has
kept the eyes of the people dazzled
so they know not what is real and
what is false. In the face of the world
he has covered this nations face with
shame as with garment.
81 hardly know whether, to feel the
most burning indignation that those
speeches of his wherein he expresses
lofty sentiment which his deeds belle,
or at those other speeches wherein
he displays frank cynicism OF belief
in and appeal to what is basest in the
human heart. In recent speech at
Long Branch he said, as reported in
the daily press, that you cannot wor-
ship God on an empty stomach and
you cannotsbe patriot when you are
starving.
Calls It Sordid 'Untruth.
mo more sordidt untruth ever was
uttered. Such 'sentence could be ut
tered only by president who cares
nothing for the nations soul and who
believes that the nation itself puts
its belly above its soul | call the at
tention of these apostles of the full
belly, of these men who jeer at the
nations soul; l call the attention of
Mr.. Wilson and his secretary of war
and secretary of the navy to what
Washington said of his own soldiers
in letter to congress"
Colonel Roosevelt then read the
statement from Washington's letter
on the army's suffering as, without
sufficient clothes or blankets or shoes,
the men marched with bleeding feet
through snow; submitting without a
murmur.
Show Wilson's Character.
This is what Washington said,"
commented Colonel Roosevelt. Does
Mr.. Wilson think that these men of
Valley Forge were not patriots be-
cause they were starving? Mr.. Baker
and Mr.. Daniels have done evil to this
country only because they stood
where their master Mr.. Wilson placed
them. ! call your attention to their
statements not only because they are
foul ISLANDERS on everything that is
good in human nature, and on every
American worth calling an American,
but because they show the character
of Mr.. Wilson,"
Colonel Roosevelt earlier in his ad-
dress said that the appeal had been
made for Mr.. Wilson that I'VE should
not change horses in crossing
stream" On this he commented as
follows:
"The worth of such an appeal is
obvious when the horse, whenever he
comes to "a stream, first pretends he
is going to jump it, then refuses to
enter it, and when he has reached the
middle alternately moves feebly for
ward and feebly back and occasionally
lies down.
Swapping Horses in 1860.
1--WE had just entered the greatest
crisis in our history when we Swap
ped horses by exchanging Buchanan
for Lincoln and if we had not made
the exchange we would not have
crossed the stream at all. The failure
now to change Mr. Wilson for Mr.
Hughes would be almost as damag-
ing" ....
After asserting that Washington
and Lincoln stood for full union of
the people and for full employment of
the nations strength to meet all
needs, Colonel Roosevelt said that this
country now should in facing prob
lens new in kind and degree be
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