Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-04

ton enjoined on his blood-kin as their duty when they should inherit his swords; but we do so only because Washingtons own sword never slipped from a hand made irresolute by fear. We treasure the words that Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg. ana in his second inaugural; words spoken with the in spiration of prophet of old, standing between the horns of the aIts,r, while the pillars of the temple reeled round about. The words spoken by Lincoln were spoken when he was weighed down by iron grief. and yet was upheld by an iron will, so that he stood erect while the foundations of the country rocked beneath his feet, and with breaking heart and nndaunted soul poured out, as if it were a libatioa, the life blood of the best and bravest of the land. We cherish these words of his only because they were made good by his deeds. We remember that he said that a government dedicated to freedom should not perish from the earth. We remember it only because he did not let the government perish. We remember that he said that the bondman should be free at whatever cost We remember it only because he paid the cost and set the bondman free.
 Lincoln's Promise Was Kept. When Lincoln accepted the nolnina- I1OII OI IlIS IepuDiICdH dIIy III -lSODy he spoke of the platform of that party as follows:
 "The declaration of principles and sentiments which accompanies your letter needs my approval, and it shall be my care nst to violate or disregard them in any part
 This was a short statement. It de- rived it's value from the fact that it was a promise that wcs Kept I ask you to compare this record of Lin coln's with the cynicism shown by MT. Wilson at different times in repudi- ating almost every promise he has ever made on any matter of vital in- portance. He has repudiated the promises of the platform on which he was elected. He has repudiated the promises he made on the stump to further his own election He has now repudiated about all the promises which he has made since he became President.
 Acsurate and Truthful Criticism.
 I have been assailed because I have criticized MT. Wilson. I have not said one thing of him that was not abso- lutely accurate and truthful. I hava not said one thing of him which I did not deeR it necessary to say because Of the vital interests of, this Republic. have criticized him because I believe he has dragged in the dust what was
 
 jeopardized 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 when they were Presidents of the United States. I spoke of him at all, only because I have felt that in this great world crisis he has played more evil part than Buchanan and Pierce ever played in the years that led up to and saw the opening of the Civil War. I criticize him now because he has adroitly and cleverly and with sinister ability appealed to all that IS weakest and most unworthy in the American character; and also because he has adroit1y and cleverly and with sinister ability sought to mislead many men and womer. who are neither weak nor unworthy but who have been mis- led by a shadow dance of words. He has made our statesmanship a thing of empty elocution. He has covered his fear of standing for the right be- hind a veil of rhetorical phrases. He has wrapped the true heart of the na- ton in 9 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 bewildered, unable to discern the difference between the glitter that veneers evil and the stark realities of courage and honesty, of truth and
 
 he has covered this nations face with shame as with a garment.
 Sentiment Which Deeds Relie
 I hardly know whether 10 feel the most burning indignation at those speeches of his wherein he expresses lofty sentiment, which his deeds belle; or at those other speeches wherein he displays a frank cynicism of belief in, aSd of appeal to, what Is basest in the L., 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 @ patriot when you are starving?" No more sordid untrut.h was ever uttered. IS it possible tEht MT. Wilson, who pro- fesses to be a historian, who has been college president, and passes for a man of learning, knows nothing either of 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 stomachs 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 nobility of soul which makes men not only serve their country when they are starving, but when death has set it's doom on their faces
 Washington to His Soldiers.
 Such a sentence as this could be uttered only by a President who cares nothing for the nations soul, and who believes that the nation itself puts it's belly above it's soul. No wonder that when such a doctrine is preached by the President, his Secretary of War should compare Washington and Washington's soldiers with the bZndit chiefs of Mexico and their followers who torture men and murder children, and commit nameless outrages orl women. This sentence is as bad as anything Secretary Baker himself said call the attention of these apostles of the full belly. of these men who jeer at the nations soul. I call the atten- ton of President Wilson and his Sec retary of War and his Secretary of the Navy. to what Washington said of his own soldiers when he spoke of them in letter to Congress on April 21st, TITS:
 Without arrogance or the slightest deciation from truth. it may be said that no history now extant can fur nish an instance of an arny's suffering such uncommon hardships as ours has done and bearing them with the same patience and fortitude. To see men