The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-29
ROOsEVELT'S CARNEGIE HALL
ADDRESS
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| ask all patriotic Americans to
consider Just what is meant when
the President says that in the pres
ent Congress "the leaders of the min
ority although unquestionably pro-
war have been nti-administrat1on."
These leaders supported the Admin
istration when d declaration of war
was needed. They supported it when
there was q demand for the draft.
They supported it when we sent the
army overseas. They supported every
demand ica. money whether by taxa
ton or by loans. They supported it
or gave it initiative and guidance on
every issue where it stood for vigor-
Gus prosecution Of the war; and they
supported it on these issues when
| half the leaders of President Wilson's
own party opposed him when he had
committed himself to war measures
and vet President Wilson now makes
partisan appeal in favor of the Dem
ocrats who opposed the war measures
and against the Republicans who sup
ported them.
Now, what does Mr. Wilson mean
when he speaks of these leaders as
being, although "pro-war," yet "antl-
admins rat; on?" He means that
when the War Department was ad-
ministered with utter ineficiency they
investigated the matter and insisted
upon efficiency. He means that when
they found that nothing effective was
being done in ship-building they
insisted that the work be speeded up
He means that when they found that
six hundred million dollars had beer
spent for airplanes and yet that not
an airplane had reached our soldiers
/ at the front they insisted that our sol
diers should get the airplanes fos
which the people had paid. Mr.. Will
son regards it as 'anti-adninistra
ton" to demand that our gallant men
at the front receive the guns and auto
rifles and tanks and airplanes and
shoes and clothing for which Con-
gress has appropriated SO many bill
lions of dollars. The entire offenso
Of the Republican leaders in Mr.. Will
sons eyes is that they have demanded
that inefficiency, waste and eXtrav
agance be remedied. Such demand
he treats as administration" In
other words, the attitude which pa
triotic people regard as pro-United
States he regards as anti-administra-
ton. -fT-
l hold, on the contrary, that these
| Republican leaders have in great
crisis shown complete Indifference TIC
party and complete devotion to the
Union. They have disinterestedly
supported Mr.. Wilson in everything
he did that was right, and fearlessly
opposed him where he was wrong.
Over half the Democratic leaders
whom he is now supporting opposed
him when he was right, and supported
him when he was wrong. He urges
that the people return to Congress
the men who were anti-war but who
shielded the failures of the admins
tration. He urges that the people de-
feat for C--1gress the men who were
pro-war but who sought to remedy
the failures of the administration. He
puts Loyalty to the Nation second, and
adherence to his personal leadership
| first. The Republican leaders whom
he assails have put loyalty to the Ma
ton ahead of all other considerations
and have conditioned their support of
every executive official solely upon
the efficiency with which that official
serves the Nation.
And | ask you to consider one thing
more, you Republicans and Independ-
ents and YOU Democrats who decline
to put crir.ging subservience to any
man, ahead of the Republic. Indeed, |
appeal most of all to the high-minded
and patriotic Democrats whose boys
are over in the army side by side
with the Toys Of their Republican
neighbors, and who do not wish to
see these loyal neighbors treated as
enemies Of the Republic. President
Wilson says that Republicans are not
good enough to serve the Republic in
Congress at this time. But they are
good enough to die for the Republic
in the army and navy! They are good
enough to pay the taxes and subscribe
to the Loan. We have sent our sons
and our brothers to spill their blood
like water overseas under the flag; we
have given our strength and our
money without stint to serve the
country at home, to float the Loans,
to back up the war activities of every
kind; and now we are told that the
blood OF our sons, and the money
saved at tho expense of our wives and
little children, do not entitle us to any
word in saying how the war is to be
wagedi Or what are the terms on
which peace is to be made, or what
shall be our policies after the war!
Mr.. Wilson says that this is no time
for DIVIDED counsels. Yet the Consti-
tuition of the United States says that
he must counsel with the Congress of
the United States. It is mere insol-
ence for the servant of the people to
say that he will not counsel with those
other servants of the people whom
the people have elected for the ex-
press purpose of giving him counsel
The world would be better off now by
hundreds of thousands of fearless