The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-23


st. Louis in fifty hours
dents Mexican policy, tell them to go
read the Declaration of independence
and the golden rule
"The final touch about the golden
rule" said the colonel, applied IN
comparing men who rape women,
murder Children and torture wounded
soldiers, to the signers of the Declara-
ton of independence and the singular
ly humane soldiers of Washington adds
an element of nauseous hyprocisy to
as preposterous and ridiculous SIAN
der as ever was circulated about the
men of the Revolution. 1 have no
doubt whatever that in this astOund-
ing 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.
Calls 1t Dissertation.
"Mr Wilson's attitude toward Car
rama can not possibly be justified eX-
cept in theory that at the bottom of
his heart he looks upon all soldiers as
equally bad. and has no conception
that Washington and Carranza stand
in opposite planes of moral and po-
litical scale.
"Of course. from the standpoint of
pdlT1OIlSIlt from the STANDPOINT OF any
American citizen proud of his country
and his army. it is profoundly unpa-
triotic, profoundly dishonorable, it in
deed. amounts almost to desecration
to compare Washington's army. the
men of Valley Forge, who sacrificed
everything for their country, and
showed singular humanity with the
herd of bloodthirsty bandits who, now
under one bandit leader, now under
another, ravaged Mexico and whom
the president has been backing and
supporting in their murders and out
RACES for the last three and. a half
years in Mexico.
THE man who professed such doc
trines is wholly unfit to stay in the
cabinet and the president who retains
him is wholly unfit to remain the
president of the United States
Silence Is Acquiescence
This statement of Mr.. Bakers ac-
quiesced in by the silence of Mr.. Will
son, says that Mr.. Wilson, in his heart
believes that Washington was no bet
ter than Villa or Carranza; that the
men of the revolution stood on a level
with the miscreant crew, who during
the last three and a half years 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 ac-
tive or passive assistance of the Amer
lean government under lead of Mr.
Wilson and Mr.. Wilson's cabinet Off
Ger now defends them by the foulest
slander on the men who made us a
nation
I. r. EATS His Way, Thru City.
Albuquerque, N. NJ, Oct 23.-Co1-
onel Roosevelt fairly ate his way thru
Albuquerque-New Mexico's largest
CITY today. Due for a five hour stop,
ne was given a breakfast reception
from to $50 and MONDAY ban
quet from IL to 1870, after he had
spoken at 10 o'clock
Roosevelt got another big reception
here with the ubiquitous bombing and
bands.
Secretary of War Baker was the
particular target for Roosevelt's cam
paign darts today. The party arrived
here about an hour late and the COL
onel was glad enough for the extra
hours sleep. He was tired when he
left Phoenix early Sunday
Will Speak in West Virginia.
1t became known today that the col
onel will probably answer the appeals
of West Virginians and go to that state
for one, and perhaps two speeches in
that state when he goes to Baltimore.
The Baltimore speech will be Monday
or Tuesday of next week
The secret of the long stop at Gal
lup. N. M, came out today. 1t was at
Gallup on the way west that the col
onel got his worst taste of heckling.
The Roosevelt special was supposed to
stop less than five minutes It was
held up 25 minutes. 1t has since been
learned some one familiar with air
brakes attachments turned a screw
which kept the brakes tight until ev-
cry brake was examined and the trou-
bic remedied. Railroad officials have