DIFFICULT FOR HR. ROOSEVELT
TO REALIZE HE'S NOT NATION’S
"BIO NOISE” NOW AND FOREVER
Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, the Ex
aminer has some frindly but frank
words to say to you.
The Kansas City Star and other
newspapers published on December 22
an article written by you in which you
say:
“When President Wilson says, ‘We
do not wish in any way to rearrange
the Austro-Hungarian empire; it is no
affair of ours what thav do,’ he is en
gaged in the betrayal of democracy,
and if his present words are to he
taken seriously, then his declaration
about making the world safe for de
mocracy was false and empty rhetoric.
Either one statement or the other must
be unsparingly condemned by all
honest men.
The President's proposal represents
three separate betrayals.
“It is the betrayal of the Slavs to
Austria, to whose causo our allies have
pledged themselves and who form a
democratic population oppressed by
militaristic autocracy.
“It is the betrayal of democracy,
because we abandon“the majority who
are our friends, into the hands of a
minority, who despise and hate us.
“It is the betrayal of the free people
everywhere to Germany, for Germany
is now a world menace chiefly because
Austria and lurkey are her subject
allies, and President Wilson’s proposal
is to leave them undisturbed.”
Mr. Roosevelt, you probably make
more frequent and more emphatic dec
larations of your patriotism than any
other man in America. Indeed, at
times you would seem to desire us to
believe that, not only all the wisdom of
the Untied Slates, but all the patriot
ism of the United States, is contained
in the Roosevelt family—divided, as it
were, between yourself and the four
male offsprings to whom you so fre
quently, and with such charming good
taste, call the admiring attention of
the public.
But, Mr. Roosevelt, after reading
the unfair and wholly untruthful edi
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torial article from which we have
quoted, any belief which might have
existed in our mind that you were the
t only simon-pure patriot now in ex
istence has been rudely dissipated.
To tell you the plain truth. Mr.
Roosevelt, your malignant personal
hatred of Mr. Wilson has led you into
a 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,
Mr. Roosevelt, publicly to denounce
the President of the United States and
the constitutional commander in chief
of our army and navy as a “betrayer of
the free people everywhere to Ger
many,” and as a traitor to democracy
j and a base hypocrite, why. then, Mr.
Gregory ought to order every utterer
of like accusations he had jailed re
leased instantly.
For if you are righi in thus assailing
the motives and the conduct of our
President and our commander in chief,
then these other individuals who have
been jailed for utterances far less un
truthftxl were right, too—and their
incarceration is unfair and unjustifiable.
The fact is, Mr. Roosevelt, that you
are ruining your own reputation, dis
gusting your former admirers and seri
ously injuring the nation's good cause
by your unwarranted, unpatriotic and
continuous aouse oi tne t resiueno.
The country is getting very tired of
your snarling, Mr. 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 a 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, Mr. Roosevelt, the Amer
ican people are tired of such endless
scolding.
We tell you the truth.
Hots of people, who used to applaud
you, now say you are getting to be a
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 J
your bonnet.
Everybody knows your eager and
insatiable 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 vour personal political am
bitions.
Those who know the inside of pol
itical intrigues have long knowa, Mr.
Roosevelt, that you disrupted the Re
publican party when it would not give
you a third term in 1912, and that you
betrayed the Progressive party in 1916
in an attempt tocompel the Republican
bosses to nominate you instead of
Hughes.
But even those of us who regarded
you as a somewhat unscrupulous po
litical foe and a very untrustworthy po
| itical friend tried to persuade ourselves
that you would forget your pergonal
ambition and your political chicanery,
and would for the country's sake loyally
encourage and support and back up the
government in its 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, Mr. Roose
velt, i3 to criticize, to scold, to belittle
our army, to misrepresent its strength,
to picture it as a broomstick brigade,
and viciously to abuse our commander
in chief as a 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, Mr.
Roosevelt, we do assure you that you
are miserably mistaken.
That kind of talk may please the
kaiser and the German military caste,
Mr. Roosevelt, because it corroborates
their own sneers at our government
and our army and powerfully aids them
in making the German people believe
that all we. can do in war will amount
to very little.
Indeed, Mr Roosevelt, this last as
sault of yours upon the motives and the
conduct of the President IS in’ EXACT
echo of the accusations with which
the German leaders have stuffed the
ears of the German people for months
past.
Mr. Roosevelt, you once filled a great
place in the public eye and once made
a great reputation.
And, therefore, thousands of your
countrymen looked confidently to you
for helpful advice, for constructive
criticism, for wise counsel.
And what have you given them,
Mr. Roosevelt?
Day in and day out you have nothing
to offer but vicious, destructive criti
cism. And this is no time tor destruc
tive criticism.
That is not what the country craves.
The country craves constructive
criticism, helpful advice, and above all
else, loyal and hearty support of the
President in his war measures.—
Chicago Examiner, Dec. 119, 1917.
TAKING OUT AN INTERNATIONAL
DUMP IN THE FAIRBANKS CAMP
Miners at present at 12 Coldstream,
engaged in getting out a winter dump
together, eating at the same table and
sleeping peacefully in the same cabin
are two Austrians, one Italian, one Bul
garian, one Serbian, and one Montene
grin, says the Fairbanks News-Miner
of February IT.
“The Star Spangled Banner looks
good to all of ’em.” says the man who
brought this report to town, “and all of
them refrain from talking of the war
in the presence of the others.”
This international outfit is taking out
a lug dump, and already has 10,000 ]
buckets of pay dirt out, ready to sluice
in the spring. They expect to have
out as much more before the water
starts to run. j
Tom Hanlon, who has been in the
Ruby district since last November, re
turned last Sunday.
Ths compiler of the Russian "Who’s
Who” has our sympathy.- Macon Tele
graph.
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