New Britain herald., 1916-06-07
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed In ex- changes that come to the Herald Office.
Hypocrisy In Convention Assembled.
(NeW York World).

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 Although Roosevelt seems com pletely out of it at Chicago, we are bound to admit that he is the only aspirant for the Republican nomina- tion who represents an issue. The other candidates only emboG~ the Re- publican yearning to return to place and power. If there were any polit- ical honesty in the Republican op- position to Wilson. Roosevelt would be the Republican candidate.
 He alone has translated this pre- tended opposition to the President into the definite terms of a platform. He favors a foreign policy that could lead only to war, in place of Will sons policy which has kept us at peace. He favors conscription, against Wilson's policy of voluntary military service. He favors the total abandonment of the old ideals of the Republic, to which Wilson clings so tenaciously, and the making of Amer icanism SYNONYMOUS with force.
 Germany is the country after which Roosevelt would remodel the Republic "a Germany with an elected Kaiser, but Germany in everything else ex- cept the crown and the court. All of Roosevelt's speeches are an enun- citation in one form or another of Ger man political doctrine. Most of them might have been written by Bern hardi. All of them would have won the approval of Treitschke. Search them, and not a word will be found to suggest that the author had ever heard of the Magma Charta or the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. They are built up on the hypothesis that the citizen exists for the state, and that it is the duty as we'll as the right of the state to control all the activities of the citizen. The citizen belongs to the state in a military way, he belongs to it in social way, and the state should recognize him, con- trol him and shape him after it's own image. This is the Prussian con- ception of human society and it is Theodore Roosevelt's conception.
 If the Republican attacks on the Presidents foreign policy, on his pre- paredness policy, on his domestic poli- cies, mean anything. they mean what Roosevelt is advocating. There can be no possible issue over the oues- tiOn of whether peace should be main tained by this kind of note or that kind of note There can be no pos sible issue over the question of wheth- CT the regular army should consist of 216,0 soldiers or 25O,OOO sol diers. There can be no possible issue over the question of whether Con- gress should add five battle-cruisers and two dreadnoughts to the navy in one year or six attle-cruisers and two dreadnOughts. There can be no issue over the question of whether a non partisan Tariff Commission should be appointed by a Democratic President or by a Republican Presi- dent.
 All that the Republicans have said in criticism of Woodrow Wilson leads them straight to Theodore Roosevelt but when they get there they have lost the courage of their crookedness. Their own medicine is too strong and they cannot swallow it, and now they are looking for the candidate who will most nearly resemble Wilson but who can be called by some other mama