The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-09-16
HYPOCRISY PERsONIFIED


Franklin Roosevelt may be a verdant youth
in point of years and intimacy with Americans
but as a political hypocrite to the point of ut
ter shameessness he ranks with the oldest in
ternationalist Iscariot in the Democratic hie14
archy. His recent trip west has been marked
by blatant self-sufficiency and conceit which
writes him down as the Smart AlecEa of his
party; by a reckless disregard for truth and a
lumber wagon style Of diplomacy which earn
ed for him what amounted to censure from the
administration of which he was part through
the State Departments denial of his assertion
that the United States controlled the votes of
twelve Latin American Republics in the league
assembly But, worst Of ALL he has exhibited
determination to pander to every class inter-
est and racial group in this country which
shows him to be dangerous man in office and
demagogue Of the first water.
AT no time has this been more glaringly APP
parent than on the occasion Of his disgusting
utterance at Grand Island, Nebraska. Ever
since the debate on the league of nations open
ed and the Republican party declared it's oppo-
sition to the British-Wilson league covenant,
the opponents Of that document have been call
ed by the President, by Senator Gilbert Hitch
cock and by other internationalists, "pro-Ger-
MANS" "Hun-lovers", TRAITORS to the Allies"
"perfdious agents Of the Kaiser, and other
names of similar character. Governor Cox, in
opening his campaign, declared that the pro-
posal for separate peace with Germany was a
monstrous betrayal of the Allies and treach-
erous alignment with junkerdom. Franklin
Roosevelt, in other quarters of the country,
has pursued similar line ofeabuse. But when
he arrived at Grand Island, Nebraska, he sang
another tune, and here is quotation from his
line Of buncombe for Nebraskan consumption:
Germany herself looked forward to the
league of nations for reconstruction and
justice, and it was Americas high duty to
aid the German people themselves now
that the war was over, as well as it was the
duty to aid other nations
In Nebraska we find this two-faced young
gentleman excoriating the Republican oppon-
ents of the British-Wilson league because their
victorious fight for nationalism prevented the
United States from exercising its high duty
Of aiding the German people. In other parts of
the country these patriots are roundly cursed
because they met the wishes of the German
government by staying out Of the league. What
was the reason for this change of tactics in Ne
braska Simply because there are over 150, 900
Americans of German origin in that state. For
brazen hypocrisy this takes Baker medal.
Franklin Roosevelt is going to learn before
many more weeks that Americans, whatever
their racial origin will not tolerate hypocrisy
Of this sort It was but natural blood reac-
ton that Nebraskans Of German origin should
have sympathized with the German cause prior
to our entry into the struggle. On those sym
pathies Woodrow Wilson and his band Of hypo-
critics played through the kept us out Of war;
deception, the notorious beerhall conferences
of Gumshoe Bill Stone, and the silly gush, "the
election of Hughes means war" And, on their
own after-eection confession, they knew war
was inevitable Nebraska went for Wilson in
1916 and five months later awoke to the Wilson
fraud. Nebraskans, regardless of racial origin,
performed woman service in the cause of AM
erica when she became belIigerent. For a
Democratic candidate to attempt to hocus the
Nebraska electorate again is to insult not only
the patriotism but the intelligence Of that
state,
CARELESSNESS