Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-05
PLENTY OF POLITICAL READING
MATTER TO BE SUPPLIED TO
VOTERS OF IOWA.
RoosEvELT's SPEECH IN ~
MAINE is FEATURED
Strona Attack on Wilson's Mexican
Policy Considered by National Com
mittee as Worthy Of First Place
State Committee Receives Large Sup
ply Of Pamphlets on Various Subjects.
clal to Times Republican.

| Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Oct. 5.--Republicans
looking for campaign arguments can
now be well supplied by the state re-
publican headquarters here in Des
Moines. The national committee has
sent out goodly supply of pamphlets
filed with arguments for republi-
canism or containing some of the
strong speeches which have been made
by various men in the present cam
paign .....
Theodore Roosevelt's speech down at
Lewiston, Maine. on August 81. when
he went TO that state to campaign for
the national ticket before their state
election is among them. 1t is entitled
Duty First" and deals more especial
" with President Wilson's handling of
the Mexican troubles. referring also to
his policy with regard to the troubles
which have arisen between the United
States and European countries en-
gagged in war. Some Of the other
pamphlets are as follows: The Demo-
cratic Tariff Law. The Story of
Mexico. Our Prosperity, America First
and America Efficient, being the title
given to the address of Charles f.
Hughes in accepting the republican
nomination for president Of the United
States.
Opiate to ldeaIism.
Roosevelt declared in his Lewiston
speech that the past four years OF the
Wilson administration have been
characterized by a policy which is an
opiate to idealism.
"Since 1912 we have had four years
OF a policy which mas been an opidts
to the spirit of idealsr." he said. ut
has meant the relaxation Of our moral
fiber Horror of war combined with
a sordid appeal to self-interest and TO
fear, has paralyzed the national con-
science. We have been told that
Americans, if they do not wish to be
killed, should leave Mexico and should
keep off the ocean; that to save few
American lives it is net worth While
to hazard the lives Of American SOL
dlers: that Mexicans should be allowed
to spill b I'D TO their hearts content:
that the 'Slropean war is no concern
Of ours; tlN,t even as between Belgium
and Germany We should be neutral not
only in act but in sympathy. Not once
has President Wilson squareiy placed
before the American people the ques-
ton which Abraham Lincoln put be-
fore the American people in 1850;
what is our duty? Not once has he
appealed TO moral idealism. to- the
stern enthusiasm OF strong men for
the right. On the contrary. he has en-
ployed every elocutionary device to
lull to sleep our sense Of duty, TO make
US content with words instead OF
deeds, to make our moral idealism and
enthusiasm evaporate in empty
phrases instead Of being reduced to
concrete action.
America as nation has been OFF,
cialIy kept in a position Of tim'd in
difference and cold selfshness.
America. which sprang to the succor
Of Cuba in 1898. has stood an idle
spectator of the invasion Of Belgium,
Of the sinking Of the Lusitania, OF the
continued slaughter Of our own citi-
zens. and Of the reign Of anarchy
rapine and murder in Mexico.
Nevertheless I believe that the
American people were ready FOR the
same kind Of appeal which was made
to them by Abraham Lincoln in 1850.
by the advocates Of an honest currency
| in 1895, by the advocates OF the
Spanish war in 1898, by the advocates
| Of nationalism in 1900. But the ap-
| peal was not made. On the contrary
Mr.. Wilson invoked the spirit OF
| ttmidity and selfshness. He made no
! effort to invoke the sense OF duty. He
put safety first" the immediate safety
| Of the moment, to be obtained by
shrinking from duty. He did not even
put American rights first still less did
| lna nut A m rican duty frst'