Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-29
BREAD OF SHAME
EATEN BY nation
SAYS ROOSEVELT
The Colonel Says Wilson
Day" Should Be Observed
as Day of Fasting and
Humiliation.
BY J. p. YODER.
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent.)


New York. Oct. 2s.-"Today, 70 our
Democratic friends tell us. Is Wilson
Day. If So 1t should be appointed
day of fasting and humiliation for the
people of the United States" Colone!
Roosevelt declared tonight. opening
his address before Hughes Alliance
meeting in the Brooklyn Academy of
Music.
During the past three years they
have eaten the bitter bread of shame
and trod the path of dishonor under
the leadership of Mr.. Wilson.
Yesterday, while returning through
Ohio. I saw in a Cleveland paper sup
porting Mr.. Wilson, two parallel COL
umns, the headlines in one running
President Wilson says we shall have
to fight in the next war" and in the
other. voters will support Wilson be-
cause he is against war" l think
these two appeals. side by side, made
for or on behalf of Mr.. Wilson, typify
the campaign that Is waged by, him
for reelection. We have never had
any candidate so high in office who
was so utterly Indifferent to the re-
versal of all his professed convictions
or principles. and, above all. 30 in
different to the flat contradiction be-
tween his word and acts on almost
every issue of real Importance before
the people.
GIVEN WILSON'S MEASURE.
Declaring Wilson has never met
single question man fashion, the
Colonel charged that the administra
tion course, particularly in Mexico had
given Europe the measure of Wilson
and that foreign countries had guided
their acts toward America according
ly. Insincerity and hypocrisy, when
successful in high places, work ruin to
a nations SOUL said the Colonel adj
verting to the Cincinnati address, land
never have we had q greater degree
of ins.ncerity and hypocrisy who has
himself practiced the coolest and most
selfish neutrality when all these things,
that in the abstract he condemns, were
in the tie committed at the ex-
pense of Belgium and of the Armen-
ians of the Syrian Christians. If it
was Just 10 keep out of the war, then
it would be just to keep GU. of SINH
lar wars. If the president, on the
other hand is right in saying that we
never shall keep out of any such wars
in the future, then he condemns him.
self for keeping out Of this war.
you say that hereafter America
must exert her whole force, moral and
physical throughout the round globe,
If the fundamental rights of human
ity are invaded. Do you know that /.
is abject cowardice to say that this
must be done hereafter, when you do
not dare to do it now"
ut is sheer hypocrisy to chatter
ten days before election as to what
ought to be done In the future when
throughout your whole term of Office
you have failed in the present to do
what you now say is our duty"
SHAMEFULLY UNPREPARED.
He attacked Wilson for having kept
us so shamefully unprepared." He de-
clarcd tina, the nation in the past four
months had not assembled at the bord
err force that would be a match for
single army corps of one of the
great military nations, such an army
corps as could be landed here in New
York within a fortnight from break of
the war or in San Francisco within a
month"
THE too proud to fight" doctrine
is a cloak behind which the coward
hides.
1T is an excuse for the timid. sordid
man who wishes to make money pro-
iii ont of tire sacrifice of others. 1t
has been The chief cause responsible
for the sol,ad of the spirit of dis
loyalty in the United States among
those who openly or secretly believe
in q divided citizensh ip. No man
wcr]d be permanently loyal to coun-
try that is too proud to fight. The man
who IS too nroud to fight is utterly I'M
fit for leaders hip in a nation that has
to face such possibilities as President
w lson now says the American people
must face. or to perform such inter-
national duties as the president now
says the American people must per-
form"