Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-24

dent Buchanan. But 1t Is utterly i'm
possible to defend the conduct Of
President Wilson. save by inferentially
condemning the conduct of such presi-
dents as Washington, Jackson and
Lincoln.
"If President Wilson's behavior
toward Germany and especially toward
Mexico. If his attitude in both our in
ternational and internal affairs are
proper. then Washington, Jackson and
Lincoln acted improperly in upholding
and saving the union and defending
our position against foreign nations by
their readiness and ability to use force.
IF their attitude toward the army
and navy was right then the attitude
of Mr.. Wilson In appointing and main
tanning Mr.. Daniels as secretary Of the
navy and Mr.. Baker as secretary of
war is wholly indefensible.
"Mr. Baker is an amiable pacifist
who. do not doubt, could give re-
spectacle service along other lines, but
he is exquisitely unfit for his present
position and would never have been
appointed to IL If Mr.. Wilson had been
willing to look at the army from the
standpoint of military efficiency, in
stead Of creating 1t purely from the
standpoint of temporary expediency."
Mr.. Roosevelt i then quoted Mr..
Bakers speech
Comparing men who rape women,
murder children and torture wounded
soldiers, to the signers of the declara-
tion of Independence and the singularly
humane soldiers OF Washington adds
an element of nauseous hypocrisy to as
preposterous and Ridiculous slander as
was ever circulate Iabout the men of
the revolutions" tT Roosevelt contin-
ued II have no dDubt whatever that
in this astounding statement Mr.. Baker
gives Mr.. Wilson'S real views. exactly
as Mr.. Lansing, in, his famous note of
June last, incautiously told the exact
truth about the acts Of Carranza and
the Mexican bandits generally.
"Mr. Wilson's attitude cannot possi-
bly, be justified except on the theory
that at the bottom of his heart he
looks upon all soldiers as equally bad,
and has no conception that Washing
ton and Carranza stood in opposite
planes of the moral and political scale.
"Of course, from the standpoint of
patriotism, from the standpoint of any
American citizen proud of his country
and his army, 1t is profoundly unpatri-
otic, profoundly dishonorable it, in
deed, amounts almost to desecration to
compare Washington's army, the men
of Valley Forge, who sacrificed every
thing ror their country and showed
singular humanity with the herd Of
bloodthirsty bandits who, now under
one bandit leader. now under an
other, ravaged Mexico and whom the
president has been backing and sup
porting in their murders and outrages
for the last three and half years in
Mexico.
'"Tfle man who professed such doc
trinessis wholly unfit to stay in the
cabinet and the president who retains
him is wholly unfit to remain presi-
dent of the United States.
''This statement Of Mr. Bakers,
acquiesced in by the silence Of Mr..
Wilson, shows that Mr.. Wilson, in his
heart, believes that Washington was
no better than Villa or Carranza; that
the men of the revolution stood on
level with the: ntscreant crew. who
durinE the last thFee and a half ayears
In Mexico have murdered Americans
by the hundreds and Mexicans by the
tens Of thousands.
These men have perpetrated every
species of outrage upon women and
children, and have turned all Mexico
Into a hell of starvation. disease and
misery.
"They have done this with active or
passive assistance of the American
government under lead of Mr.. Wilson
and Mr.. Wilson'S cabinet officer now
defends them by the foulest slander on
the men who made us a nation"