The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-04
Roosevelt and the Truth
About Wilson
U'rom the Chicago Tr4bunc
(From the Chicago Tnbunc.)


mon to the American people on the
quality Of their present national spir-
IT., in order 10 cxclaim with cIulta-
ton: you gee. he would have had
you in war"
If American voters will he deceived
by such proposterous buncombc they
deserve four more years of Wilson.
and four more years will develop
some OF the consequences OF weak
ness. Strength and self-rcspccl aud
consideration for the rights OF 9TH
crs get few people into trouble. They
get few nations into trouble.
With lack OF strength and gelf-rc-
sDect there Is no need that there be
consideration for the rights OF 9TH
ers. The others will take care Of
their own rights, and are likely to
take away a few that do not belong
to them.
The deterioration Of American
spirit which Is revealed In THANK
God for Wilson," Is symptom Of
national degeneration. and the ma
ton needs man like Roosevelt to
shake 1t out Of It's timidity. A nation
scared Of everything. determining ey-
cry issue by inquiriug whether il
would be difficult to meet IT. honest
~ and then meeting it dishonesty.
will soon raise breed OF men with
long. braided and perfumed hair.
Already Mr.. Wilson has seen to it
that even the Mexicans despIse us. As
Col. Roosevelt revealed with infinite
detail. Mr.. Wilson's policy has been
to poke his finger into n sore spot in
Mexico and then run before the an
gered MeXicans.
That is calculated to produce a
quiet neighbor. You irritate him. and
again you shrink when he shows
wrath. No wonder the MeXicans have
an idea they could oyerrun the United
States. and occasionally try to do so.
They have Pershing's column in
termed in Chihuahua" as they have
informed our government. In their
minds they are considerable in not
attacking and disposing of it. They
stopped 1t at Carrizal. To their no.
ton they have had it checked and
under control ever since. How can
they respect government which does
not know what 1t is doing or people
who will have such government?
To be held in esteem by the Mex
leans might have no more serious
result than an occasional repetition
of what happened at Columbus. n. NJ
But the cumulative effect of 1t all Is
that we are losing our self-respect
We are developing a disposition
which asks only that we be spared
any inconvenience. Don't ask us to
do anything. That is all we ask OF
an administration. Keep events from
bothering us. Give us money. Leave
US alone. God bless you and thank
God for you.
We shall become lot of Lesbians.
Our national shield will contain the
pug dog MS a symbol of the American
spirit. Our national prayer will be
that we be given plenty of meat and
be delivered from meeting bull ter
rier.
The very evidence OF this is the
character Of the Wilson campaign for
reelection. He kept us out of Next
60. He kept us out Of war. lie kept
us out OF this and out OF that. He
kept us, without regard to methods
or principles. from having anything
confront us as a matter of principle,
When the American nation accepts
such theory as the guiding rule Of
its national existence 1t will be dead
from the stomach up.
The Just retribution in such case
lie TINT a ngffpu which sacrifices it's