The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-04
STAYS WILSON AND HIS FOR
EIGN POLICIES IN SPEECH
AT BROOKLYN.
TOUCHESPREPAREDNEsS
Saws II We Mean to Prepare we
Should Prepare I'm Good
Earnest.

Roosevelt discussed Promise ant
Performance in International Rela
tions" before the Brooklyn Insti.
tute of Arts and Sciences in Brook
lyn tonight. The former President:
address in part was as follows:
"In private life no human being
thinks it to the credit of any mar
who makes a promise unless the
promise is kept. But when we deaI
with nations instead of individuals
a large number of reasonably we'll
disposed people loudly take the view
that the promise is itself meritorious
and that the keeping of it is some
thing wholly irrelevant. A treaty is
merely a promise. If it is evident
when made that it cannot be or
ought not to be kept, then those
making the treaty are self-evidently
either wicked or foolish. If it can be
kept, but nevertheless is not kept,
those who fail to keep it are guilty
of dishonorable- conduct. The politi-
clans in power who do such deeds
are merely the agents of the people
and il these public servants act dis
honorably, the dishonor is reflected
upon the people themselves. Well
meaning persons would be wise if
they kept the analogy between pub
lie and private promises steadily in
view. The analogy applies to paci-
ficist speeches; it applies to treaties;
it applies to what are automatically
called notes. -r,t. ai,
Micawber Notes"
= Readers of David Copperfield
will remember that Mr.. Micawber's
specially was TO issue notes. He new
er honored these notes when they
became due. His mind was so con-
stituted that he felt that when a note
became due he met it adequately by
writing another. His creditors, how
view of the performance. They did
not have single-track minds. To
those acquainted with United States
diplomatic history during the last
year or two there will be no neces-
sity of pursuing the analogy fur
ther.''
Col Roosevelt mentioned The
Hague conventions in their relation.
to the violation of the neutrality of
Belgium, declaring it was "dishon-
CRADLE conduct on the part of the
United States to take action in the
matter" Taking up the question OF
American export of munitions to the
belligerents, he declared:
'It is immoral to export munitions
of materials out of which munitions
can be made, in order to prevent
Belgium from freeing herself. 1t is
highly moral to export munitions
which will help Belgium to free her
self. 1t is an act of gross infamy
on the part of this Government and
this people to take any step which
will help the wrongdoer against the
wronged and such step would be
taken il we imposed an embargo in
the interest of Germany against the
Allies.
Notes To Germany.
"A year ago this Government not
flied Germany that it would hold
her to a strict accountability If she
sunk passenger ships and murdered
women and children. Again and
again in contemptuous defiance OF
this warning Germany has sunk these
ships and killed noncombatants un-
til the number mounts up into the
thousands. Whether the acts were
done by German submarines or by
Austrian submarines, or, as is now
claimed, by Turkish submarines. or,
as may possibly be claimed in the
future, by Bulgarian submarines,
represents merely the contemptuous
desire OF Germany-the directing and
debating mind of the Central Pow
ers-to give this Government a
chance to crawl out of making good
it's fine words. We took no effec-
tive action whatever to stop these
repeated murders. They were finally
stopped simply because the British
feet destroyed so many submarines
that the warfare ceased being prof
table to Germany. Now 1t is an
nounced in the press that the Ger
man Government and our Govern
ment are actually haggling over the
number of dollars which they think
the American people will pocket al
a payment for their murdered WON
en- and children.
Afraid Of Hyphen.
Unfortunately 1t is evident tha
many of our public men are afraid
of Germany. afraid Of the profession