Connecticut western news., 1916-10-05
I. R. UPBRAIDS
 WILSON POLICY
CritiCiSes President as Man
 of Words, Not Deeds.
SAYS HE HAS BETRAYED U, 5.

In Battle Creek Address Roosevelt Says
 He Kept Silent For Eighteen Months
 Hoping He Might Be Able to Support
 President, but Finally Became His
 Foe.
 President Wilson's administration was ass; fled by Theodore Roosevelt in an address at Battle Creek. Mich. He referred to President Wilson as "a man of words" and to the Republican presidential candidate as "a man Of deeds''
 Speaking to thousands packed into q circus tent, Colonel Roosevelt charge that President Wilson sacrificed the national honor of the United States because he feared o pay the price for upholding it.
 Roosevelt characterized President Wilson's European and Mexican poll cies as 'cowardly" and Following the lines of least resistance
 "President Wilson by his policy of tame submission to insult and injury
 
 the murder of our men, women ant children by Mc~ican bandits on land and German submarines on the sea-" said the former president.
 Upholds Right to Critcise.
 Colonel Roosevelt spoke at length on the Mexican situation. He criticised President Wilson for refusing to rec ognize Huerta and for recognizing the Carranza government Every argu- ment against Huerta applied with ten fold more truth and weight against Carranza," he said.
 In opening his address Colonel Roose- welt replied to protests against the pro- priety of criticising the president by saying that these protests come from those who, "when I was president. spread every species of calumny and islander about he"
 He also said: 'I then, as president took the view 5hat no one had a right to speak untruthfully of the president or of any one else. but that even less than any one else ought the president to escape from truthful criticism. never complained of any attack on me unless it was false, and if it was false anL the man making it was important enough I clearly showed it's falsity. I apply to others only the standard by which asked that I myself be treated. ''
 Silent Eighteen Months.
 Colonel Roosevelt also said in his speech:
 never uttered one word of criticism of President Wilson until year and a half after he was elected president. If he had stood by the honor and the interest of the American people would have thrown up my hat for him and would have supported him heart and soul
 I not merely kept silent during the first eighteen months or two years. I tried ac- lively to support him. The only errors have made in connection with MT. Wilson were due to incautiously accepting his statements and supporting his policies in the effort to ''stand by the president" It was with deep reluctance that I was forced to the conclusion that the effort to stand by him was incompatible with standing by the interests of mankind and the honor of this nation. But in my view 1 there was no alternative for any honor able man when once I became convinced as I am convinced, that the conscience of | Cn1S peOplo mas been scared ana US mOrai sense duIled by the leadership of the ad- ministration and of congress during the 1 last three years.
 These false servants of the people have 1 taught us to enjoy soft ease and swollen wealth in the present without taking one effective step to ward off ruinous disaster | in the future. These false servants of the people have betrayed the soul of the na- tion
 President Wilson by his policy of tame submission to insult and injury from al whom he feared has invited the murder o1 our men, women and children by Mexican bandits on ,and and by German subma- rines on the sea- He has spoken much o1 1 the "new freedom" In international prac 1 tice this has meant freedom for the repre- sentatives of any foreign power to murder American men and women unchecked by the president.