Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-04

j the. country rocked beneath his feet
and with breaking heart and nndsunted
1 soul poured out. a. II II were = liba:
5r aH sas Of the ia1 1Sa y. ossrsss .hsss
! words Of his only because they were
1 made good by his deeds. We remsm-
her that he said. that q government
dedieatsd to fsesdom should not perish
because he did not let the government
perish. We remember that he said
that the bondman should be free at
| whatever cost. We remember 1t only
| bondman free.
Believes Criticism Was Necessary.
| IT have been assailed because have
criticised Mr. Wilson. 1 have not said
one thing of him that was not abso-
! lutely accurate and truthful. l have
not said one thing Of him which did
not deem it necessary to say because
| of the vital interests Of this republic.
I have criticised him because I be-
lieve he has dragged in tho dust what
was most sacred in our past. and has
jeopardfxed the most vital hopes Of our
future. I have never spoken OF him as
strongly as Abraham Lincoln In his
day spoke Of Buchanan and Pierce
United States I spoke OF HIM at all
only because I have felt that in this
great world crisis he has played
moro evil part than buchanan and
Pierce ever played in the years that
civil war. I criticise him now because
he has adroitly and cleverly and with
sinister ability appealed to all that Is
weakest end most unworthy In the
he has adroitly and cleverly and with
sinister ability sought to mislead many
men and women who are neither weak
nor unworthy. but who have been mis-
has made our statesmanship thing Of
empty elocution. He has covered his
fear of standing for the right behind q
veil Of rhetorical phrases. He has
wrapped the true heart Of the nation in
a spangled shroud of rhetoric. He has
kept the eyes OF the people dazzled SO
that they know not what is real and
what is false. SO that they turn be-
wiidered. unable to discern the diff
ference between the glitter that We.
courage and honesty. Of truth, and
strength. In the face Of the world he
has covered this nations face with
shame ~ with \ garment.
most burning Indignation at those
speeches Of bis wherein he expresses
or at those other speeches wherein
he displays . frank cynicism Of be-
lief in, and Of appeal to, what is bassst
in the human heart. In a recent speech
at Long Branch, he said to our people,
as reported in the daily press. that You
cannot worship God on an empty
stomach. and you cannot be a patriot
when you are starving No more sordid
untruth was ever uttered. Is 1t pos
sible that Mr.. Wilson. who processes
to be a historian, who has been q col
lege president. and paases for a man
~
religion or of patriotism? Does he
not know that never yet was there a
, creed worth having, the professors of
which did not fervently worship God
whether. their stoma chs were full or
empty? Does he not know that never
yet was there a country worth living
In which did: not develop among her
sons something at least OF that nobil-
serve their country when they are
starving, but when death has set it's
doom oh their faces?
.'Cares Nothing for Nations Soul"
Such sentence as this could be ut
tered only by a President who cares
nothing for the nations soul. and who
believes that the nation itself puts its
belly above its soul. No wonder that
when such doctrine is preached by
the President. his Secretary of War
should compare Wasnington ana WASH
Of Mexico and their followers who tor
ture men and murder children, and
commit namelesa outrages on women.
Record Of Turning Back.
go much for Mr. Wilson when he
says what he really feels. Now a
word about what he says when he
speaks what It IS quite impossible that
he really believes. On last Saturday
afternoon. with an effrontery that is
literally duufoundihs. he said that
when he started in one direction he
would never turn around and go back.
and that he had acted upon this prin-
ciple all his life.' and that he intended
he did not see any obstacle that would
! make him turn. back Why, his whole
record has consisted in turning back at
every point when he was hidden to do
/ has reversed himself on almost every
| important position he has ever taken
There IL not . bandit leader In Mexico
who does not know that II he can show
make Mr.. Wilson not merely turn back
| but humbly kiss his hand: kiss the
\ hand that isared with the blood OF ouI
men. women and children. Mr.. Wilson
! says mat ne never turns BACK. why
he has been conducting his whole cam
paign on the appeal that he has kept
us out Of war: and yet last Thursday
1 without q moments notice, And only
ten days before election. after having
been going full speed IN one direction
| he turned around and went full speed
| in the reverse direction. on this very
| point: saying, forsooth,- that II thert
was another war we must not keel
| ont Of 1t.
He has been claiming credit becaus,
In the case Of Belgium he has pre-
| served q neutrality that would max
Pontius Plate CULVER with envy; ant
yet in this speech last Thursday he sale
that never again must we be neutral
He has kept US absolutely unprepared
SO that now we are as absolutely un
prepared. after he has been In ofYic,
| three and a half year. as we wer
when he took ONCE; and YET he nov
| says that we must enter the next wa
whenever one comes! He has LOOKED
;on without single throb OF his coli
his tepid pulse, while gallant Belgium
i was trstppled into bloody mife, Will
the Turk inflicted on the Armenian an
Syrian Christians wrongs that woul'
have blasted the memory of Attila, an
he has claimed credit for his neutra
Indifference to their suffering; and ye
now, ten days before election. he say
the United States must. hereafter re
fuse to allow small nations to be mis-
IL now, Mr.. Wilson! II you mean wha
you say. Mr.. Wilson. show that yo'
mean 1t by your action in the present
Appeals for Hughes.