Iditarod pioneer., 1918-03-30

existed Tn our mlnQ LHdt you were tue , only simon-pure patriot now in e1- istence has been rudely dissipated.
 To tell you the plain truth, Mr. Roosevelt, your malignant personal hatred of Mr. Wilson has led you into habit of thought and of public utter ance which is just as disloyal and far more injurious than any of the sedi- tious and abusive speeches which have landed so many soap-box orators be- hind iron bars.
 If it is right and patriotic for you, Mir. Roosevelt, publicly to denounce the President of the United States and the constitutional commander in chief l of our army and navy as a "betrayer of the free people everywhere to Ger many" and as traitor to democracy and base hypocrite, why, then, MT. Gregory ought to order every utterer of like accusations he had jailed re- leased instantly.
 For if you are righi in thus assaillng
  President and our commander in chief, then these other individuals who have been jailed for utterances far less un- truthful were right, too-and their incarceration is unfair and uniustifable. The fact is, Mr Roosevelt, that you are ruining your own reputation, dis 1 nd nhI- ously in uring the nations good cause by your unwarranted, unparriOtic and continuous abuse of the President.
 The country is getting very tired of your snarling, Mir. Roosevelt,
 Indeed, it is.
 And your experience and ability ought to give you discernment enough to realize this and to make you keep still, if you cannot say anything kindly, helpful or encouraging.
 So far as we recollect your utter ances for while back, Mr. Roosevelt, you have not said one word of comfort or of good cheer or of helpful sugges tion to the government, and you have been talking at the rate of heaven only knows how many words a minute, every night.
 Honestly, MT. Roosevelt, the Amer ican people are tired of such endless scolding.
 We tell you the truth.
 Lots of people, who used to applaud you, now say you are getting to be public nuisance.
 Folks say that to one another every day-in the stores, in the offices, on the trains, on the streets.
 They do, Mr. Roosevelt.
 And they mean it, too.
 Mr. Roosevelt, you do not deceive anybody by declaring that your pa triotic anxiety for the free peoples" inspires your angry abuse of the President.
 Everybody knows what bee buzzes in your bonnet.
 Everybody knows your eager and unsuitable ambition to be President again.
 You are now forcing people to the conclusion that you are willing to do almost anything that you think will further your personal political am- bitions.
 Those who know the inside of pol itical intrigues have long known, MT. Roosevelt, that you disrupted the Re- publican party when it would not give you & third term in 1912, and that you betrayed the Progressive party in 1916 in an attempt to compel the Republican bosses to nominate you instead of Hughes.
 But even those of us who regarded you as 8 somewhat interruptions po- litical foe and very untrustworthy po- itical friend tried to persuade ourselves that you would forget your personal ambition and your political chicanery, and would for the country's sake Loyalty encourage and support and back up the government in it's stupendous task of waging war upon Germany.
 Iu this hope we sincerely regret to say that we have been disappointed.
 All that you have done, MT. Roose- welt, is to criticize, to scold, to belittle our army, to misrepresent it's strength, to picture it as a broomstick brigade, and viciously to abuse our commander in chief as traitor to the cause of democracy and to the free peoples.
 If you think that you please Amer ican ears with that kind of talk, MT. Roosevelt, VIC do assure you that you