New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 1, 1916, Page 10

10 OOSEVELT GIVEN OVATIO ut It is Personal Tribute and Mention of Hughes’ Name Meets With Luke- warm Applause — Wilson and German - Americans Displease the Colonel, Lewiston, Me., Sept. 1.— delivered his first speech of ghes campaign here last night, d an audience that packed the City ill Auditorium to standing room eered him until it was hoarse. om the time the colonel’s train tered the state i afternoon u i started away from Lew midnight he received ovation after pation from shouting, cheering, pa- ding crowds. o For Roosevelt it seemed a triumphal arch through this the most doubtful arc causing the local | lexs a little | peech intently, | w the crowd go wild when sevelt stepped on the platform and hen he arose to speak, after over- alous paraders had delayed the eeting an hour, but the speech was eant for Hughes and not for Roose- 1t, and while the colonel mentioned r. Hughes favorably in the first and s of the speech, the cheer- g the. crowd at these times bemed ome of the leaders a bit lerfunctors The rest of the colonel’s long speech as a rapid-firc and violent bombard- hent of Woodrow Wilson and the plicies of the administration. The blonel landed squarely on the hyphen uestion, and did not refrain from ngling out tho yphenates for special attention. Colonel Rooscvelt jumped into a scussion of the Mexican situation in | s most vigorous style. He had ritten a speech full of sharp thrusts our “bloody peacc’ in Mexico. Then e assailed the Wilson administra- on for its “safety first” policy fol- pwing the invasion of Belgium. A venerable Maine farmer who had bught his way to a seat in the front bw cheered maadly. “Teddy could be elected unanimous- in Maine,” he exclaimed. And the managers of Mr. Hughes' hmpaign in Maine wondered if a good eal of it was not just that—a per- bnal rather than a party demonstra- on. When the meeting was over not a pw were wondering just what would the effect of the speech and wheth- embrace the policies when o arrivc Colc v set the pace ampai i the Maine ics to see if on aid not a1t slapped red with the an men., women an who had been murdered and with President Wilson ry of state says, tly in | till contint mention ‘e the Hughes some concern. The Speech. Colonel Roosevelt began with this lorsement of Mr. Hughes: s > 1e to advoc Cr 5. H the U 2 the clection of a senate and house of representatives to support him, and to give some of the reasons why in my judgment it would be a grave mis- fortune for the T of the United States to re “I make an appeal. »od citizens the support of I not mere- tter of 1ot fl ana not other nation Colonel Roose ey of America a view to its and the hon world as a “The endeavor Snicalstpol dn the interest of t ntry from which he c is no true American s right to citizens ““An; citizens along poli foul and e thir tion of American c in the int £ power i ilty of moral t n to the repub- | The monthly du It is bec condemn Theodore ! German-American | GREAT N WAY DOWN EAST 1 as quickly Inglish-Americans or ‘ Irench-Americans or Irish-Americans who acted in such manner. “During the last two years we have seen an evil revival in this country of non-American and anti-American division along politico-racial lines; i:md we owe this primarily to the fact | that President Wilson has lacked the and the vision to lead this | in the path of high duty, and k of affirmative leadership loosened the moral fibre of our | people, pirit, and has encouraged the up- rowth within our own borders separatism along the lines of r lorigin. When our own government s0 acted as to bring shame on all our | people, it shook the spirit of loyvalty among those to whom it was vital that loyalty should be taught.. Full- | heafted allegiance is shattered by the government that fails to uphold the honor and interest of the nation by ate and effective acti when of its citizens are menaced | ¢ X i 5 | by the Spanjards during our entirc - taken by foreign power. spoke of preparedness as in- | bly connected with American- | baseness. “ilson has sometimes led us wrong, hat at the best he has merely fol- | lowed afar off when convinced that it was politically safe to do so, we | | are at this moment no more prepared | to defend ourselves than we were two | ycars ago when the world war broke | the work of restoring our navy to the position it formerly held; but it will when in 1910 the democratic party | rained control of the housc and stopped upbuilding the navy. | ; { own rights; our second, to stand up for the rights of others. President ther duty. They can be performed Iy by deed. Words alone arc use- 1 hstract qualities which are contra- dicted by unworthy deeds in concrete are much worse than useless, use they teach us habits of hypo- and because they cause other nations to regard us with utter con- tempt. President Wilson in his Decoration Day speech sai ‘We hold dear the principle that small ana weak tes have as much right to their sovereignty an dindependence as large and stron These were the fine words were spoken about the abstract. When it became his duty to reduce them to deeds in the concrete Mr. Wilson immediately flinched. The case of Belgium exact- iy met his definition.” Colonel Roosevelt spoke of the president’s neutrality being compared to the neutrality of Pontius Pilate, but weakened our national | | ism and accused the pacifists of morafj | prt of N But that is one of | | te rage “Thanks to the fact that President | 1d sometimes not led us at all, and | out,” said he. ‘“‘At last we have begun | ! ! take years to undo the harm done! ‘Our first duty is to protect our ! | Wilson has signally failed to perform | But, above all, fine words about | fb?rotherh;;fi (} hief;‘ NEW s unjust to the latter. words, he said, were used merely to cloak ignoble inaction He continued: “At this moment Mr, Wilson, and Mr, Wilson's fuglemen, advance as his greatest claim that ‘he has kept us out of war,’ This claim can he seriously made only by individ who in- President Wilson’s belief that ‘e nothing, and words every- thing. War means a clash between the armed forces of two countric Nowadays (ihanks quite as much to the professional pacifists as to the n-ilitarists) it means, furthermore, the destruction of the lives of civilians, and the property of civilians, as well the property of the government Under President McKinley we had wih Sp: Wlilson we are assured that ave had ‘peace’ Mexico, These are the words for thc <. During the war | ain fewer X icans were a by the in the have been killed 1 nt ‘peace’ with Mexico. Tt mo this. ater number of ns have been killed by Mex 1s during these years, when we are Iy informed that we have heen | peace with them, than were killed ar with Spain. Morcover, when tho war with Spain was through, it was through. But peace still continues s furigusly as cver in Mexico.” Colonel Roosevelt then turned to the Vera Cruz incident, and declared the operations there were Jjust as { much war as was the conflict with S in. Wilson was beaten in his the Colonel “It was a ~d inta pointless- handoned i which failed; | damage Dboth to the Mexicans and ourselves, nd which in its outcome ! reflected initc dishonor wupon our| But it was a war, neverthe-' nation. lcss.” Colonel Roosevelt turned his at- | tention to the pursuit of Villa, de- claring that in this venture ‘‘more Americans had been killed and wounded than in all the fights by land and sea during the Spanish war, save only the battle of Santiago itself. In othek words, durign this murderous ‘peace’ of Messrs, Wilson and Car- ranza, in less than three months more American blood was shed than in the destruction of the Spanish fleet off ntiago, and than in the taking of Manila, and than in the fight at Cuasimas; in short, in all the opera- tions combined during the Spanish ve only the actual battle of | Santiago itself. And yet there are persons who seemingly take comfort in speaking of one set of operations as being v and who praise the other set as being part of our ‘policy | of peace'—the bloodstained peace of Messrs. Wilson and Carranza.” The speaker quoted at length from Secretary Lansing’s note to Carranza cn June 20, in which were recounted many of the border outrages and those BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1916. committed upon Americans in Mexico. Iissed the Hand That Slapped Him. | President Wilson therefore piicitly shows that the : not once but repeatedly, made attac ¢n American towns and killed Ame! can citizens and mutilated them in September, 1915 1915, less than a month later, this! seme President Wilson, through 1 same sceretary of state, formally an- nounced to Carranza’s nt that it was his ‘pleasure’ to take the oppor- tunity ‘of extending recognition to the de facto government of Mexico, of which General Venustiano Car a is the chier executive President Wil- ‘ thus recognized the government | Mexicans duvring the | - With $15,000,000 hich, his own secretary of state de- | ares, had been 1 than a month Iy cng: d in repeateq a upon Americans, and in their | invasion of American soil, the govern- | nient at whose head was General Car- ranza, who less than two months pre- viously, on August 2, 1915, had con- temptuously refused to -pay any heed | to any representations of President | on on behalf of mediation, saj g that ‘under no consideration ould I permit interference in the in- | irs of Mexico.,' President | did not merely kiss the hand that slapped him in the face, He | Kissed that hand when it was red with the blood of American men, women, { and children who has heen murdered | and mutilated with, as President Wil- son, through his secretary of state, says, ‘ruthless brutality. “In all this shameful history of Mr. Wilson's dealings with Mexico during the last three vears nothing has been | mare shameful than conduct at { Tampico. “At that time the particular bandit Mr. Wilson was favoring happened to be Villa. This, however, is of no con- sequence. Mr. Wilson has sometimes helped the different Mexican leaders of bandits against one another; now against Villa; but he has never up effectively for American against any of them. When he has ventureq to take action against of them he has always hastily = ‘\Innr‘d the attempt as soon as the re- sistance of the bandit involved be- ume serious “At Tampico there was a general movement of attack by the Mexicans on Americans and other foreigners. We had a squadron of American w ships in the neighborhood. The V | son administration declined to permit | this squadron to be used to defend the lives of American men and the honor of American women, and the German and English ships at Tam- pico had to step in and perform the task our representative had so basely abandoned. At the very time that the Mexican mob had surounded the building in which the Americans had taken refuge and was howling for their blood, the American fleet, in | spite of the protests of the American naval commander and in accordance with wireless orders from Washington was forced to steam out of the harbor (Continued On Eleventh Page). Yet on October 19, | f§ Villa against Huerta; now Carranza | f have sprung A war chest of $15,000,000 has been umulated by the four railroad brotherhoods whose demands have caused the greatest crisis the rail- roads have had to face in many year: of the men are the of such action that | basis of this emergency fund, but a prosessional Ger- | great part of the 400,000 men in- who In our politics | volved have announced that they sorvants and allies of Ger- |nced no help from the brotherhood. 15 Americans interested | The tralnmen alone have more than o honor:and welfare of | $4,000,000 in their treasur It was I weald condemn just |said that most of the $15,000,000 will be used for prosecuting the stril The leaders s that they will go into the market and buy off the men the railroads might hire as strikebreak- ers. The four chiefs who head the 400,000 brotherhood men and thre- fore control the entire railroad situa- tion can not only tic up every railroad in this country, but the employes on Canadian and Mexican railroads also come under this supervision. 1 are: 1, Willlam G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Train men; 2, W. S, Carter, president Broth- | erhood of T.ocomotive TFiremen and | BEnginemen; 3, William S. Stone | wmd chief ¢ the Brotherhood of | Locomotive Engineers, and 4, A | Garretson, presia of the Orde | Railway Conductors. The lower [ ture shows a ticup of freigh York Central yard Has Been Moved To Our New Headquarters At 390 Main St. (Formerly the Del Mar Photo Studio.) This Steck Will Be Placed On Sale At A 33 1-3 Per Cent Discount ale Starts Saturday, Sept. 2, At 9 A. M. Thaonking You For Past Patronage In The Old Store, Our Old Experienced Shoe Cierks Invite You To Visit Them At Their New Home SMART SHOES AND HOSIERY 390 MAIN STREET (IMONS’ BUILDING) WM. C. 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