Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-11-04
Declares Head Of Nation Has
Appealed to All That Is
Weakest and Most UnWOr-
thy in Americans.
SCORES BAKER AND
SECRETARY DANIELS
Says Their Words Are Chief
y important Because They
Reflect Sentiment of Chief
Executive,
"a, sonnlna ouanAl sre.lAl lsAss9 wal

f.y nopnna ouHnAt SPECIAL LEASED wistI
New york, Nov, Got Theodore
Roosevelt criticized President Wilson
in emphatic words this evening in an
address at Cooper Union, which he
delivered at the request Of a campaisn
organization of business men OPP
pose the reelection OF Mr. Wilson,
Taking as his subject, "pur Nation
Crisis" Colonel Roosevelt said that a
world cataclysm has overwhelmed ci-
yilization and that 'the Dimes have
needed a washington or Lincoln, but
unfortunately we have been granted
only another Buchanan
Appeals to All That's Weak.
81 have been assailcd,' said the
speaker. because ] have criticized Mr
Wilson. | have not said one thing Of
that that was not absolutely accurate
and truthful. ! have criticized him
because / believe he has dragged IN
the dust what was most sacred in our
past. and has ieopardized the most
vital hopes of our future. ! criticize
him now because ne has adroitly ana
cleverly. and with sinister ability, ap-
pealed to all that is weakest and most
unworthy in the America character
and also because he has sought TO lead
many men and women. who are nei-
thar weak nor unworthy but who
have been misled by a shadow dance
with words. He has kept the eyes oi
the people dazgled so they know non
what is real anG what is fulse. In the
face Of the world he has covered this
nations face with shame as with a
garment.
Conflicting Sentiments.
"I hardly know whether to feel the
most burning Indignation at those
speeches Of his wherein he expresses
lofty sentiments which his deeds belle,
or at those other speeches wherein he
DISPLAYS a frank cynicism Of belief in,
and appeal to- what is basest in the
human heart. In a recent speech at
Long Branch, he said, as reported IN
the daily press, that you can not wor-
ship God on an empty stomach ana
YOU can not be a patriot when you
are starving
NO more sord.d untruth ever was
uttered. Such a sentence could be Ut
tered only by president who cares
nothing for the nations soul and VINO
believes that the nation itself puts It's
belly aboev its soul. | call the at
tcntion of these apostles Of the fun
belly of these men who jeeT at the ma
TONS soul, ! call the attention OF
President Wilson and his secretary of
war and his secretary Of navy, to what
Washington said Of his own soldiers
in a letter to congress
Reads Washington's Letter.
Roosevelt then read the statement
from Washington's letter on the
army's suffering, as without sufficient
clothes or blankets or shoes, the men
marched with bleeding feet through
snow submitting without a murmur
"This is what Washington said,
commented Colonel Roosevelt. docs
Mr.. Wilson think that these men OF
Valley Forge were not patriots be
and Mr. Daniels have done evil to tnio
country only because they stood where
their master, Mr. Wilson, placed
them. I call your attention to their
statements not only because they are
foul ISLANDERS on everything that Is
good in human nature. and on every
American worth calling an American
but because they show the character
Of Mr. Wilson"
Colonel Roosevelt earlier in his ad-
/ dress said that the appeal had been
made for Wilson that eve should
not change horses IN crossing n
| stream" on this he commented as
/ follows.
"Thc worth of such an appeal is OBJ
yious when the horse whenever he
comes to q stream, first pretends lac
is going to jump It,, then refuses to
enter H. ana when he has reached the
middle. alternately moves fcebly for
ward and fecbly back, and occasional
Is lies down We had just entered
tho greatest crisis in our history when
we 'swappod horses by exchanging
Buchanan for Lincoln, snd if We hao
not made the exchange we would not
have crossed the stream at all. The
failure now TO change Mr. wilson for
Mr.. Hughes could be almost as dam
/ aging
cites Washington and Lincoln.
After asserting that Washington
and Lincoln stood for full union Of
the people and for fun employment Of
the nations strength 10 meet alt
needs. Mr.. Roosevelt said that this
country now should, in facing prob
lens new in kind and degree. De
guided by the spirit Of the lesson
taught by the careers Of Washington
and Lincoln, though methods in pres
ent industrial life must differ from