The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-23
WALSH LIKENS RO0SEVELTTO MEN WHO. HAVE DICTATED THE
 POLICY OF ENGLAND TO IRISH
Election of Hughes Means Domination of Foreign Policy By Roosevelt He Says-Quotes Ex- Presidents Cairo and London Speeches Which Allege Small Nation Is Unfit to Govern Self. ~t
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New York. Oct. 21.-Likening Theodore Roosevelt to the men who have dictated England's policy to- ward Ireland, Frank P. Walsh, former chairman of the Commission on 1n- dustrial Relations, is out with a state ment predicting that the election of Hughes would mean the dominstion of our foreign policy by Roosevelt
 and repetition in this hemisphere of an imperialism as objectionable as
 England's. ,; < MT. Walsh quoted Roosevelt's speeches at Cairo and London in 1910
 to show the lkinship between him and the foreign statesmen of blood and tions. He said:
 foreign policy. as he will if MT. repetition in this hemisphere of the disguised as benevolence, that has blackened the pages of European his tory. "I do not refer merely to Rpose- velt's> rape of Panama. or his insis-
 
 into Mexico with sword and cannon to subjugate its people for the bene- fit of Wall Street investors. I am not
 thinking merely of the spirit of arm ed force and military brag and bust
 CT that animates every word and act of his toward the weaker nations
 It is not ,eveR necessary to point out
 his close association with capitalists
 like George W. Perkins of the Steel TrustAmen whose greatest ambi-
 ton to-day is the extension of their financial and economic mastery over rich and defenseless foreign lands. Theodore Roosevelt has rendered inference and surmise unnecessary.
 Six years ago, in public utterances de- ] livered at Cairo, Egypt, and in the Guildhall at London, he gave to Brit
 ish imperialism the strongest indorse-
 ment and the most powerful prop that the doomed and rotten institu- tion has received since the enlighten- ed conscience of the world marked | it for condemnation.
 'The same aspiration for freedom and self-government that has animat- ed Ireland all these years.~~ and to crush which England resorted to
 measures that have outraged the
 world, burned brightly in Egypt when
 MT Roosevelt emerged from the Afri- can wilderness. A strong Nationalist party had been organized, and most of the students of the great new uni versity in Cairo were ardent support CTS of the Nationalist cause. A decree prohibiting free speech had recently been promulgated and reactionary
 native official had been assassinated. Coming. into the midst of this struggle between England's arbitrary imperial power and the aspirations of the Egyptian people, Roosevelt de- livered speech to the students in which he discouraged the Nationalist movement. spoke in f1attering terms of English rule, and reminded the students that generations are requir-
 ed to fit a nation for self government
 It was the cruelest blow that could have befal1en the Nationalist cause,
 coming as it, did from a citizen of the
 great Republic across the seas that
 stands as an inspiration for all lovers
 of freedom.
 But this was not enough. Ar
 irving in London, Roosevelt under took to advise England on her duty in Egypt. In the Rooseveltian opin-
 ion, the policy there had been weak
 and sentimental He\ told them he
 hoped England would stay in Egypt, | and that her rulers would not make the mistake of trifiing with any | movement that threatened the se- | curity of English ruler. In words | that were unmistakable, he in effect | urged return to that policy of blood
 and iron which has drenched Ireland with the blood of martyrs
 Then, as now, in Mexico, MT. Roosevelt's justification was a plea that the small nation sin question was not fit for freedom. It is the same plea that has justified tyranny in every age and every country where the few | have set up their rule over the many. It is the plea that has brought misery and tragedy to Ireland and that has | earned for certain clements in the