The Winslow mail., 1918-06-21

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lVl though notably less able and less respectable is
phaticaly the Asquith of American politics. He is
out of and he is greediy get back into
power and he does not scrupe at any methods matter
how unfair to the Administration how harmful to the
country in order to accomplish his purely selfish political
purposes.
The attack which Mr.. Roosevelt now makes upon the
Administration just baseess the attack which AS
quth made Lloyd George, and it will to be just
futile in it's effect upon the Administration and just
fatal in its effect upon Mr. Roosevelt
The immediate of Mr.. Roosevet's present out
burst are two in number.
The first is the fact that the magazine which
hires Mr.. Roosevelt at 81 per word to make vicious
attacks upon the Government of the United States during
time excluded from the mails in issue for
wholly false and absolutely justified attack upon the Pres
dent of the United States and the diplomacy of the United
States calculated to bring our country and people into
contempt and consequently to injure
Mr. Roosevelt did not write this particular article but
it conceivable that any to the existence of mag
azne which pays literally for political slander
natural the part of Mr. Roosevelt for his
profitable, if not patriotic contract
The second of Mr.. Roosevelts immediate agita
ton is the that the small lonely New York
paper which supporting Mr. Rooseves perpetual aspra
tons for the Presidency recently rebuked public
by the representatives of the United States Govern
ment for printing certain articles which had
foundation fact and which dscredted the officers of the
United States Army and held them up rdicue and
tumely without the slightest basis of truth justice in the
allegations
traorous publications like Mr.. Rooseves magazine and
Mr. Roosevelts newspaper whose only objects in printing
fasehood petty political spite against the President
and partisan support of the aspirations of rival cand
date would have been wholly suppressed reasonable
Our Government however, is lenient with such offend
ing publications and with Mr. Roosevelt himself because the
Administration properly believes that in republic the right
of free speech and free publication should be
though there be occasional dsoya abuses of this right
in the of Mr. Roosevelt and the magazine which
hires him and the newspaper which politically supports him.
That the United States Government entirely right
in its denuncation of Mr. Rooseves New York newspaper
conclusvely the suit which
resignation from that newspaper of its editor Mr. Frank H.
Smonds we'll known throughout this country his par
otto articles on the
Mr. Smonds definitely stated and showed that his desire
to retire from this dsoya due to the fact that
this paper habuay invented and concocted cables
in its office for the purpose of manufacturing false
material with which attack the of United
States and the Of the United States for small and self
ish political purposes
Of course, Mr.. Simonds would willingly remain
nected with any dsoyal publication, no matter how profit
able that connection might be- but there apparently moth
ing Mr. Rooseves makeup to his connection with
any publication, matter how tratorous long as that
connection will to line his purse and further his
scrupuous methods of promoting his personal political
pirations.
Mr. Roocevets attempted reflections upon the Hearst
publications unmportant.
is sufficient to in reply that whatever criticism
the Hearst publications indulged in constructive crt
sm founded upon established fact upon manufactured