The Coconino sun., 1916-10-13
COLONEL ROOSEVELT ARRA|GNS
 THE WILSON ADMINISTRATION


 Grant, and the gray under Lee; were men of valor, who sacrificed every thing to serve the right as it was given them to see the right. They spurned with contemptuous indigna- tion the counsels of the feeble and cowardly folk who in their day spoke for peace-at-any-price.
 Tame Submission
 President Wilson by his policy of tame submission to insult and injury from all whom he feared has invited the murder of our men, women and children by Mexican bandits on land, and by German submarines on the sea- He has spoken much of the 'New Freedom" In international practice this has meant freedom for the repre- sentatives of any foreign power to murder American men, and outrage American women unchecked by the president. President Wilson has counted upon his belief that the Am erican people are indifferent to their duties, because they are too much ab- sorbed in war profits, too much pleas ed with the unhealthy prosperity which fourishes because others are suffering; too greedily content with a momentary immunity from danger, due to the fact that all possible foes are otherwise engaged. He has be- lieved that our people will not look ahead. He has believed that they will remain blind to the fact that disaster will surely in the end overtake them if they shirk their duties in the pre- sent. He believes that if they are allowed to enjoy good profits and high wages, and go to the movies, and pur- chase automobiles, they will pay no thought to the possibility of future ruin, and no thought to the sufferings of their fellow countrymen and coun- trywomen who, at the present mo- ment, suffer the last extremities of torture and outrage.
 Porter Emerson Browne has shown exactly the way in which we are look ed at abroad in recent statement which runs as follows:
 How U. S. Is Regarded
 An American friend of mine at tended dinner given in Mexico by the erstwhile revolutionist thereof, Pascual Orozco. Pascual was puzzled. He asked my friend to explain that which so mystifed him. We have robbed your men, dishonored your women, killed your children; tell me-" pleaded Pascual, "what does an Am erican need to make him fight?" Pas cual, you see, being only an ignorant Mexican, couldn't understand why a wife or couple of children more or less mean little when you have a new automobile and a fat bank account" 1"
 do not ask you to take my state ment for Mir. Wilson's motive and &C., tions. l ask you only to consider his own statements, and the statements of his authorized representatives, and his actions, and above all, his con stant inaction. Nearly one year and half has passed since the Lusitania was sunk. The act represented the most colossal single instance of the murder of non-compatants, including men, women and children, that had been perpetrated by any power call ing itself civilized for over a century. President Wilson had full notice as to what was to be done, for the German ambassador, Mir. Won Bernstoff, had publicly given notice to the people of the United States. For less than such action, President George Washington when ours was a weak infant nation forced the recall of the French ann bassador, Genet. But President Will son did not act. He only spoke. And his words were direct indictment to the repetition of the wrong. For i'm mediately after the sinking of the Lusitania he uttered his famous sen tence about being "too proud to fight" In all our history there has never been any other American pre-. sident who has used a phrase that has done such widespread damage to thc name of America. It is one of those dreadful phrases which, as by light. ming flash, Eliminates the soul of tho man using it, and remains forever fixed in the minds of mankind in con nection with that man. But this is not all. When the man is president of the United States, it is sad anc dreadful thing that the shame is necessarily shared by the nation it self; and it is completely assumed by the nation if it fails to repudiate tn, man who uttered the phrase.
 Too Proud to Fight
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