New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04

torture men and murder children ana
commit nameless outrages on women
This sentence is as bad rs anything
Secretary Baker himself said. | caii
the attention Of these apostles OF tne
full belly, Of these men who Jeer at
the nations soul. call the attention
of President Wilson and his Secretary
of War and his Secretary OF the Navy
10 what Washington said OF his own
soldiers When he spoke OF them IN
letter 20 Congress on April Il, lf!si
"'Without arrogance or the slightes,
deviation from truth, 10 may be sara
that no history now extant can furnlsn
an instance of an armys suffering such
uncommon hsrdships as ours mas zone
and bearing them with the same pa
thence and fortitude. To see men WIN
ont clothes TO cover their nakedness,
without blankets 20 lie on, without
shoes for the want Of which their
marches might be traced by the blood
from their feet. and almost as often
y,i.bout provisions as with them,
marching through the frost and snow,
and at Christmas taking up their win.
ter quarters within a days march OF
the enemy without house or hut 70
cover them till they could be built, and
submitting without murmur, IS a
proof Of patience and obedience which,
in nv opinion, can scarce be paral-
lelled.'
"This is what Washington said. Does
Mr.. Wilson think that these men OF
Valley Forge were not patriots because
they were starving? Is his own soul
so small that he cannot see the great
ness Of soul OF Washington and OF the
Continental soldiers whose feet LETT
bloody tracks upon the snow as they
marched toward the enemy? Ihey
were clad in rags; their eyes were
hollow with famine; their bodies were
numbed with cold and racked with
fever; but they loved their country;
they stood for the soul of the nation,
and not for its belly.
Creatures of Wilson
"Mr. Baker and Mr.. Daniels have
done evil to this country only because
they stood where their master, Mr..
Wilson, had placed them. Mr.. Baker
has preached the doctrine OF contempt
for the men Of the Revolution only
because he has followed the lead oil
the President, who says that re1glon
is merely matter OF full stomach
and that patriotism vanlshes when ne.
roes feel the pinch of famine. | call
YOUR attention to these statements not
only because they are foul SANDERS on
everything that is good in human
nature. not only because they are a
foul Islander on every American worth
calling an American, but because they
show the character Of Mr.. Wilson HIM
self.
80 much for Mr.. Wilson when he
saws what he really feels. Now word
about what he says when he speaks
what it is quite impossible that he
really believes. On last Saturday af-
ternoon, with an etfrontery that IS
literally dumfounding, he said that
when he started in one direction he
would never turn around and 90
back and that he had acted upon this
principle all his life,' and that he in
tended to act upon it in the future
and that he did not see any obstacle
that would make him turn back.
why, his whole record has con-
sisted in turning back at every point
when he was hidden to do 80 by either
fear or self-interest. He has reversed
himself on almost every important
position he has ever taken. There IS
not bandit leader in Mexico who does
not know that if he can show enough
strength he can at any moment make
Mr.. Wilson not merely turn back, but
humbly kiss his hand; kiss the hand
that is red with the blood of our men,
women and children.
"Mr. Wilson says that he never
turns backr Why, he has been con-
Quoting his whole campaign on the ap-
peal that he has kept us out of war;
and yet last Thursday, without a mo-
ment's notice, and only ten days before
election, after having been going full
speed in one direction, he turned
around and went full speed in the re-
verse direction on this very point,
saying. forsooth, that if there was an
other war we must not keep out of it.