The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-18
ROOSEVELT OUT OF DATE SAYS
 IDh FARRELL
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 side. Nothing in the long run is so disastrous to reasonable proposes of the mind as war; and what are strikes but war!
 Yes, he's our greatest Progressive. He should have been that party's can didate last June. He would have un- derstood them which MT. Roosevelt did not. The convention was a tre- mendous gatherings unit from start to finish. It was a nuuAeHs for a great and 8 holy crusade. Roosevelt could have done anything with that crowd. He could have had that par ty solid for Hughes if he had want ed to, but in his ohagrin at the re- fusal of the Republican convention to nominate him he threw over his fol- lowers. I think the trouble was that Roosevelt had sincerely come to feel that he was essential to the country's salvation. He saw himself as Prov idence and when to his surprise the Republicans. refused to take his esti- mate of himself he turned his back on the Progressives. I could not be- lieve it true, I still do. not believe he could have done it if he had been there and seen and felt that wonder ful body. And to think of his sug- gesting Henry Cabot Lodge to them! The comedy and tragedy of it!
 Mind you. there is much in MT. Roosevelt that admire. He has done many great things. It is a great pity that we cannot continue to get out of him and MT. Taft all that they oculd give us. They both should be in Con- gress. That's the place for all ex- presidents. Why should we not have a half dozen national Congressmen- at large? Think what an asset these
 MT. Hughes? I have great respect for him. He certainly gave us one of the most refreshing and stimulating intellectual exhibits in the insurance investigation which the country has had in years. And he was courag- eous and intelligent governor. His years on the Supreme Court bench seem to have taken him out of the world-and he has not yet found himself. Certainly, he has not yet given any sign of understanding or sympathizing with the thing we call Progressiveism. And as far as can see, President Wilson is the only leader we have that does.
 A Progressive of President Wilson's type is big enough to gee that issue of 1916, because of the worldwide shakeup in the last three years, must be different than those of 1912. There is something bigger to talk about to- day than the referendum" New is sues are bound to come to the front perhap ps with startling rapidity and frequency. President Wilson can bring tb these issues his tremendous experience. The evolution in thought and action of the last four years may be as nothing to that which is to take place in the next four. Does any American today see bigger, better, or more dispassionately or clearer than President Wilson? I believe that the Proeressives will see this; if they don't, 1t is reflection on their ip- teliigence.
 The Greatest Victory of the Greatest President Wilson has proved his fit ness 70 lead the cause of progressive civiliza&iep- True. he has not yet had time te convert the man who cries for his pound of flesh, nor altered the vision of him who fails to see that bloody war is but the primitive ex- precision of savage weakness promoted by the ignohle desire of conquest or revenge.
 But he has forced respect for neu- trality and he has handled his deli cate Mexica inheritance with tact and wisdom, And foF the Machaevellian authority in diplomacy and the resort to cannon in internationalism he has substituted the Sermon on the Mount -he has proved that though trampled under foot by the soyereigns of all lands for 1000 years the Golden Rule was good enough to win the greatest