Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-10-01
WILSON TAKEN
TO TASK FOR
VAC|LLA7|ON
Former President Deplores Low
Estimate Placed On Ma
tional Honor
MEXICAN POLICIES
.....: HUM1LlArE NATION
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President Has Positive Genius of
Striking Whsn Iron
Is Cold


Theodore Roosevelt, ;;xmer president
of the United States, hi, out straight
from the shoulder here, today in an
address that arraigned The Wilson ad.
ministration.
Speaking to more than 10000 per-
sons, who were packe:i in a circus
tent here this Afternoon, Mr.. Roose.
velt assailed the administrative rec
ord of President Wilson and urged
the election Of CharIss E. Hughes.
When the former President entered
the tent to make his first Michigan
speech on behalf of tie Republican
candidate, he was give, wild ova.
tion. Roosevelt swepf Michigan in
the Presidential electitn four years
ago. Climbing on liable on the
speakers platform, the Colonel read
his prepared address, which was de-
voted almost entirely to an attack
on President Wilson's foreign and
Mexican policies and iis support Of
the Adamson eight hour day bill.
Mr.. Roosevelt said III part:
AT the outset wish to say word as
people that we must not criticize the
President. The newspapers and indi-
viduals making these protests are, for
the most part, the very ones who and
which when was President spread ev
cry species of caiumny and slander about
that no one had q right to speak un-
truthfuIly of the President OF of any
one else but that even less than anyone
else ought the President to escape from
truthful criticism. ! never complained
Of any attack on me unless is was false.
1t was important enousl,5i clearly show
f rs u sta5aafd aaitf - ssad fs hat a'T
myself be treated. It Is the standard
explicitly set in reference
Porter Emerson Browne has shown
exactly the way in which we are looked
at abroad in a recent statement which
runs as follows:
An American friend Of mine attend
ed a dinner given in Mexico by the
erstwhile revolutionist thereof. Pascual
Orozco Pascual was puzzled. He ask
ed my friend to explain that which SO
men, dishonored your women. killed
your children; tell me- pleaded Pascual.
what does an American need to make
him fight?' Pascual, you see. being only
an ignorant Mexican, couldn't understand
why wife or couple OF children more
or less mean little when you have 4
new automobile and fat bank account.
Nor was this phrase an isolated one.
Shortly afterwards, under date of May
9th, the New Yorl; Times contained the
statement that President Wilson declin-
ed an invitation to speak at 1ndepend-
ence Hall on July 5th, and in response
to O suggestion that he should only speak
on patriotism. remarked: This is per-
haps the very time when would not
care to arouse the sentiment Of patriot
ism.' call your attention to the fact
that take this statement from one
of the most prominent Wilson papers.
Independence Hall on the one hundred
and twenty-eighth anniversary of the
signing Of the Declaration Of Independ-
ence in that hall, and he so refused be-
cause inasmuch as over one hundred Of
our men, women and children had just
garded it as the very moment when he
would not care to arouse the sentiment
of patriotism Mr.. Wilson has a posi-
tive genius for striking when the iron
is cold and fearing to strike when the
iron is hot. If one hundred and twenty
son, and the other men who signed the
Declaration Of Independence had felt
the same way about patriotism. and
the same way about fighting as Mr..
Wilson does, we would never have had
a country. Had Lincoln felt the same
the American Republic now in existence.
.hen md Now
"Most assuredly, my fellow country
men, the American Republic will not
live, and will not deserve to live, if
for the views of tho men who signed
18th, 1776. we substitute as the basis Of
national action the views of the Presi-
dent who, one hundred and twenty-eight
years later, declined to speak in COM
r.enoration Of the day. because In a
dangerous crisis it seemed to his cold
heart unwise to arouse the spirit of
THAT he would refuse to extend the
hand OF welcome to any one who OBJ
tains power in O sister republic by
treachery and violence. Fine words;
only. as usual. they are contradicted by
Mr. Wilson'S deeds. Let this statement
about Huerta he tested by Mr.. Wilson's
record in exactly similar cases when
dealing with other men. In February,
1914, at the very time he was refusing
to recognize Huerta in Mexico, Presi-
dent Wilson recognized Colonel Bena-
vides in Peru; although Benavides had
obtained his power by the exact means
which Mr. Wilson denounced in the case
Of Huerta. The Government Of Bena-
vides was founded on assassination. and
had no vestige of constitutional author
ity back Of it. 1t came into power in
February, 1914, when Colonel Benavides
led the garrison troops against the Presi-
dents palace, imprisoned the President
and assassinated the Miniter of War,
and various others. Minister Mcmillan
reported these facts fully to the Presi-
dent. The case against Benavides was
FAR more fragrant than that against
Huert: but president Wilson boldly 'ex-
Tended the hand of welcome to the man
Who obtained power in a sister republic
by treachery and violence, and whose
title was based upon assassination and
intrigue 1t is absolutely impossible to
lccept Mr.. Wilson's statement as a justi-
fcation in the case Of Huerta, unless
We admit that that very. statement ire
trievably condemns him in the case of
3enavides. The only other explanation
s that Mr.. Wilson's statement in the
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