Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-04

cause they were starving? Is his own soul so small that he cannot see the greatness of soul of Washington and of the Continental soldiers whose fest left bloody tracks upon the snow as they marched towards the enemy They were clad in rags their eyes were hollow with famine; their bodies were numbed with cold and racked with fever; but they loved their coun- try: they stood for the soul of the na- tion and not for it's belly. MT. Baker and Mir. Daniels have done evil to this country only because they stood where their master, MT. Wilson, had placed them. MT. Baker has preached the doctrine of contempt for the men of the Revolution, only because he has followed the lead of the President. who says that religion is merely a matter of full stomach, and that patriotism vanishes when heroes feel the pinch of famine. I call your at tention to these statements not only because they are fou, sanders on everything that is good in human na- ture, not only because they are foul islander on every Amerrcan worth call ing an American, but because they show the character of MT. Wilson him selS
 Whole Record Consists in Turning
 Back.
 So much for MT. Wilson when he says what he really feels. Now a word about what he says when he speaks what Is quite impossible that he really believes. On last Saturday afternoon, with an effrontery that Is literally dunbfounding, he said that when ne started in one direction" he would never turn around and go back" and that he had acted upon this principle all his life" and that he intended to act upon it in the future," and that he did not see any obstacle that l-a hi his whole record has consisted in turning back at every Joint when he was bidden to do SO by either fear or sen-interest. He has reversed him. self on almost every important posi- t1on he has ever taken. There is not bandit leader in Mexico who does not know that if he can show enough strength he can at any moment make MT. Wilson not merely turn back but humbly kiss his hand; kiss the hand that is red with the blood of our men, women and children. MT. Wilson says that he 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, Without a 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 if there was another war we must not keep out of it. He has been claiming credit because in the case of Belgium he has preserved a neutrality that would make Pontius Pilate quiver with envy; and yet in this speech last Thursday he said that neves again must we be neutral! He has kept us absolutely unprepared; so that now we are as absolutely unprepared, after he has been in office three and a half years. when ha c% vet he nov says that we must enter the next war whenever one comesI He has looked on without a single throb of his cold heart, without the least quickening of his tepid pulse, while gallant Belgium was trampled into bloody mire. while the Turk in f11cted on the Armenian and Syrian Christians wrongs that would have blasted the memory of Attila, and he has claimed cridit for ms neutral in difference to their suffering: and yet now, ten days before election, he says the United States must hereafter re- fuse to allow small nations to be mis- handled by big, powerful nations. Do 1t now. MT. Wilson! If you mean what you say. Mr. Wilson, show that you mean It by your action in the present Evil Lesson of Covering Up Failure.
 There is no more evil lesson that can be taught this people than to cover up failure in the performance of duty in the present by the ut terance of glittering generaIities as to the performance of duty in the neb- ulcus future. With all my heart I believe in seeing this country prepare it's own soul and body so that it can stand up for the weala when they are oppressed by the strong. But before 1t can dos it must fit itself to defend it's own rights, and it must stand for the rights of it's citizens. During the last three years and a half, hundreds Of American men, women and children have been murdered on the high seas, and in Mexico. MT. Wilson has not dared to stand tip for them He has let them suffer without relief, and without inf1icting punishment upon the wrongdoers. When he announced that in some dim future he intends to stand up for the rights of others, let him make good in the present by now standing up for the rights of our own people. He wrote Germany that he would hold her to strict accounta- bility' if. an American lost his life on an American or neutral ship by her submarine warfare. Forthwith the Arabic and the Gulf1ight were sunk. But MT Wilson dared not take any action to make his threat effective He held Germany to no accountability, loose or strict. Germany despised him; and the Lusitania was sunk in
 
 nipety-four people were drowned, ors hundred and three of them babies under two years of age.
 "Too Proud To Fight"
 Two days later, while the dead mothers with their babies in their arms lay by scores in the Queenstown morgue, MT. Wilson selected the mo- ment as opportune to utter his famous sentence about being 'Too proud to fight" MT. Wilson now dwells at Shadow Lawn. There should be shad- ows enough at Shadow Lawn; the shadows of men, women and children who have risen from the ooze of the ocean bottom, and from graves in for eign lands; the shadows of the help less whom MT. Wilson did not dare protect lest he might have to face danger; the shadows of babies gasping pitifully as they sank under the waves the shadows of women outraged and slain by bandits; the shadows of Boyd and Adair and their troopers who lay in the Mexican desert. the black blood crusted round their mouths, and their dim eyes looking upward, because President Wilson had sent them to do a task, and had then shamefully