The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-12-28
CHARGES 7. R. IS
MORE HARMFUL
THAN ALIEN SPY
ny y. ID. COCHRAN
Special Correspondent 81 The Star

special correspondent of The Star
WASH NGrON Dec. 2s.--Theo
dore Roosevelt publishes an editorial
In the Kansas city star. In which
he says our troops In France
have received thousands Of collins.
but an insufficient number OF
shoes
Had anybody with German
name given publicity 10 that state
ment.s he would have been accused
as "A pro-German sympathizer
frightening tho parents % the
United states and lending aid and
comfort 20 the enemy Roosevelt
says H. and gets away with A.
have read carefully everything
I could find In print that no has
written or said since we got into
the war. and l have noted tho sin.
-gular perristency with which he
has harpcd on one note. In the
January issue OF the Metropolitan
Magazine. tho opening sentence Of
his editorial on Put the War Thru"
Is as follows.
AN Americans who were both
thoroiy patriotic and well Informed
lifted their heads with pride when
az last this nation ala what it would
have been infinitely better to have
done two years proviously--when at
last Il went To war"
That IL the note he p~rriatentiy
harps on. No matter what we do.
Il should have been done long ago
Mr Rooseveit'H general attitude
seems patriotic. but he cannot con.
ceai his bitterness toward President
Wilson. There ia always the dis.
coriant note. II seems that he can.
not forgive Wilson for being elected
president. or the people for having
elected him.
II would have been splendid, OF
course. II We could have put two
million trained seasoned. fully
armed and fuzzy equipped soldiers
into the fiEht the moment VIC went
90 war II would have been great
II We had had tho ships standing in
our harhorr 90 transport these sol
disra across the ocean. II would
have been fine II We had had the
shoes. uniforms. overcoats and
other clothing and equipment all
ready in Eovcrnmcn; warehouses
the day war was declared.
But IL wasn't humanity possible.
and nobody knows this better than
Roosevelt.
since war was declared there has
been no real political division Of
people. An unHclfish patriots laid
aside their party prcjudicea and
made an united stand in supper, Of
President Wilson. This country
presented practically a solid front TO
the au,ocratic enemy Of democracy.
All efforts Of German spies. pro
German Hympathixcrs. silly paclf.
lists. methoaieai anarchists and hell.
raising I. W. VS. 90 divide the
American people have fatty failed
The movement now led BY Theo.
dore Rooacseii IL more dangerous
than any % these. because 4, ~ In.
aldlous and better cAmouflaFed.
The Kansas city Star editorial Is
plainly demaFogic. In IL Colonel
Roosevelt uses az his tar, a rc-on,
statement attributed 90 secretary
Baker. TO tho effect that h. did no,
favur universal military training an
a permanent policy.
with this m his tent Colonel
Roosevelt argues that u In u state
ment OF administration policy. and
he says IL means that 'wc shall
persist In our own folly. until We
arc brayed in tho mortar OF dread.
fui calamity"
Colonel Roosevelt; IL dcfnaEogte In
charging that because Secretary
Baker said he wasn't In favor Of
universal military training as a
permanent, policy. this In an official
administration announcement that
we will not go on preparing for this
war.
I charge that Theodore Roosevelt
IL playing politics with tho war. and
that he ia starting now the con
gressional campaign OF 1913 and his
own presidential campaign OF 1920