Weekly journal-miner., 1916-10-04
AMER|CAN|SM, THEME
 OF ROOSEVELT'S SPEECH
Exposes Weaknesses Of Wilson Ad- ministration And Tells Why Hughes
 Should Be Elected President.

' their duties, because they arc too much absorbed in war profits, too much pleased with the unhealthy prosperity which hourishcs because others are suffering; too greedily con tent with a monetary immunity from danger, due to the fact that ail pos siblc foes arc otherwise engaged. He has believed 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 over take them if they shirk their duties in j the present He believes that if they are allowed to enjoy good profits and high wages, and go to the movies, and purchase automobiles, they will pay no thought to the possibility of future ruin, and no thought 10 the suffcrings of their fellow-countrymen. and countrywomcn who, at the pres ent moment, suffer the last cNtrcmi- ties of torture and outrage
 Mexicans Are Astounded.
 Porter Emerson Browne has shown exactly the way in which we are look ed at abroad in a recent statement which runs as follows:
 An American friend of mine at tended a dinner given in Mexico by the erstwhilc revolutionist thereof, 4 Pascual Orozco. Pascual was pug zled. He asked my friend to explain that which so mystified' him. We have robbed your men, dishonored your women, killed your children: tel me- pleaded Pascual, what does an American need to make him fight?' ! Pascual, you see, being only an ig- norant Mexican, couldn't understand why wife or a couple Of children more or less mean little when you have a new automobile and a fat bank account"
 Too Proud to Fight"
 l do not ask you to take my state mcnt for Mir. Wilson's motive and ac- tions ask you only to consider his own statements, and the statements of his authorized representatives, and his actions, and above all, his constant inaction. Nearly one year and half has passed since the Lusitania was sunk The act represented the mos: colossal single instance of the mur- der of non-combatants, including men women and children, that had beer pcrpctrated by ary power calling it self civilized for over a century. PrcSi- dent Wilson had full notice as to what was 10 be done, for the German ambassador, Mir. Non Bcrnstof, had publicly given such notice 10 the people of the United States. For lcSs than such action President George i Washington. when ours was a weak infant nation, forced the recall of the French ambassador. Genet. But President Wilson did not act He only spoke. And his words were a direct indictment 10 the repetition of the wrong. For immediately after the sinking of the Lusitania he uttered his famous sentence about being too proud to fight" In all our history there has never been any other Amer ican president who has used phrase that has done such widespread dam age 10 the good name of American. It is one of those dreadful phrases which as by lightning flash, illuminatcc the soul of the man using it, and re mains forever fixed in the minds Of mankind in connection with that man But this IS not all When the man is president of inc United States, it Is 9 sad and dreadful thing that the shame { is necessarily shared by the nation it. self; and it is completely assumed by the nation Ii ii fails to rcpudiatc the man who uttered the phrase.
 Imagine George Washington alter the Lexington fight, or even after the 1 Boston massacre, selecting the occa- sion as an appropriate one for re marking that the American people might bc too proud to fight" I'm aginc Abraham Lincoln making such statement two days after the firing on Sumter!
 Nor was this phrase an isolated one. Shortly afterwards, under date of May 7th, the New York Times contained the statement that Prcsi- dent Wilson declined an invitation to speak at Independence hall or July 5th, and in response to a suggestion 1 that he should only speak on patriot ism, remarked: This is perhaps the very time when l would not care to arouse the sentiment of patriotism ! call your attention 10 the fact that i I take this statement from one ot i the most prominent Wilson papers. ! President Wilson refused to speak in ! Independence hall on the l2Sth ami !Norsary of the signing of the declara- 1 ton of independence in that hall, and ! he so refused because inasmuch as over 100 of our men, women and chil- drcn had just been murdered on the high seas he regarded it as the very moment when he would not care to arouse the sentiment of patriotism. Mir. Wilson has a positive genius for . -A- Af 1