New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-01-29
ROOSEVELT Again
ATTACKS WILSON
Delivers Tirade on Presidents
Speech in the Senate

oyster Bay, l.. l., JAN 29.-Dis-
cusslng President Wilson's remarks on
universal military service to the Mary
land preparedness delegation last
Thursday, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
said in his home at Sycamore Hill last
night:
president Wilson has announced
himself in favor of peace without vic
tory, and now he has declared himself
against universal service-that is,
against all efficient preparedness by
the United States
peace without victory is the
natural ideal of the man who is too
proud to fight. In the event Of war
1t Is the only kind of peace open to
the nation whose governors and
leaders are too proud to fight and too
1oollsh to prepare. 1t is spurned by
all men of lofty soul, by all men fit to
call themselves fellow citizens of
washington and Lincoln, or of the
War-worn fighters who followed Grant
and Lee.
The Tories of 1776 demanded
peace without victory. The Copper
heads of 1864 demanded peace with
out victory. These men were Mr..
Wilson'S spiritual forbears But
neither Washington nor Lincoln was
among the men who draw the sword
lightly. or who, when once it has been
drawn, sheath it without victory. If
righteous war is concluded by a
peace without victory, such a peace
means the triumph of wrong over
right, and neutrality between right
and wrong means the support of
wrong against right.
cept a Copperhead peoce Of dishonor,
peace without Tictory for the right,
peace designe@to let wrong triumph,
a peace championed in neutral coun-
tries by the apostles of timidity and
greed. In Mexico he has accepted and
is accepting such a peace, and by his
Mexican policy he has brought dis
aster to Mexico and dishonor to the
United States. His policies through
out his four years have brought woe
to humanity and shame and bitterness
Of heart to all Americans proud of the
honor of their flag.
president Wilson talks of the free
dom Of the seas The basic form of
freedom is to be free from murder.
Yet, President Wilson has not dared
to secure even this elem entary free
dom for our men, women and chill
dren on the seas. Let him first act in
the present to secure this elementary
freedom from Germany before, in the
interest of Germany, he asks the
abolition of naval power Let him
member that to work for disarma-
ment on the seas until after there
has been disarmament on land by the
great military powers of Europe and
Asia, is to put this non-mil1tary coun-
VT q mo Of
m onarchy; for inasmuch as we are
now defenseless on land, our navy is
our only safeguard against invasion.
1T would be we'll Of Mr.. Wilson
would cease to tread in the footsteps
of the Tories of the Revolution and
the Copperheads of the Civil war. Let
him think of the men Of Valley Forge,
who in the last extremity of want and
misery yet spurned peace without vic
tory and scorned to be neutral be-
tween right and wrong. Let him think
of the men of the Civil war and of
Lowell's trumpet lines:
Come Peace! Not like a mourner
bowed,
For honor lost and dear ones
wasted;
But proud to meet a people proud,
With eyes that tell of triumph
tasted.
when fear of the German sub
marine next moves Mr.. Wilson to de-
clare for peace without victory be-
tween the tortured Belgians and their
cruel oppressers and taskmasters;
when such fear next moves him to
utter the shameful untruth that each
side is fighting for the same things
and to declare for neutrality between
wrong and right; let him think of the
prophecies Deborah, who, when Sisera
nightly oppressed the children of
Israel with his chariots Of iron, and
when the people of Meroz stood neu-
trail between the oppressed and the
oppressor, sang Of them:
"'Curse We, Meroz, said the Angel
of the Lord, curse We bitterly the in
habitants thereof; because they came
not to the help Of the Lord, to the
help Of the Lord, against the mighty
president Wilson has earned for
this nation the curse of Meroz, for he
has not dared to stand on the side Of
the Lord against the wrongdoings of
the mighty"