The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 6, 1918, Page 3

= omartiSin Tader (= Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan League VOL. 6, NO. 18 ' ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, MAY 6, 1918 | WHOLE NUMBER 137 ROOSEVELT AND THE KAISER z=| HEODORE ROOSEVELT coined the words “shadow . | Eun.” He has called many honest and patriotic citizens by that name. He put several hundred thousand loyal || citizens in that class when he denounced the Nonparti- san league. More recently he made a statement in which he attempted to brand Mr. Townley of the Nonpartisan leagye as an “American Bolsheviki.” His exact words, in one of his editorials in the Kansas City Star, were: “The utter ruin which the Bolsheviki have brought on | Russia offers an illuminating example of the destruction which = | would befall the United States if it ever submitted to the leadership of men like Messrs. Hillquit, Townley, Haywood and Berger.” BUT MR. TOWNLEY NEVER HAD A PICTURE OF HIM- SELF AND KAISER WILLIAM PUBLISHED IN AN AUTOBI- OGRAPHY. On the right above is a photographic copy of an illus- tration from the book called “Theodore Roosevelt—an Autobiogra- phy.” This is by Theodore Roosevelt and is his life history as told by himself. The picture of Roosevelt and the kaiser, included by Roosevelt in his book, appears on page 558, just as it appears in the photographic copy. Theodore Roosevelt, who calls honest citizens “shadow Huns,” thought so much of this picture of himself and the kaiser that he included .it in his autobiography. The picture, which originally appeared in Punch, an English humorous maga- zine, shows Roosevelt with upturned mustaches, just like the kaiser. ROOSEVELT FELT THAT IT WAS SUCH A COMPLIMENT TO HIM TO BE PICTURED WITH THE KAISER AND WITH THE SAME KIND OF A MUSTACHE THAT HE HAD PUNCH’S DRAWING PUT IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Roosevelt refers to Nonpartisan league members and leaders as “shadow Huns.” But no League member or leader has ever published a story of their lives and included in it likenesses of the kaiser alongside of likenesses of themselves, DRESSED UP TO LOOK LIKE THE KAISER, and considered it complimentary ! O THE left is a photographic reproduction of Page 26 of the book called “Theodore Roosevelt—an Autobiogra- phy.” This book is Roosevelt’s ‘'own story of his own life. Read what he says there about Germany, Ger- BEE4E8| mans and German institutions. The Leader does not criticize Mr. Roosevelt for his praise for the German people. We agree with President Wilson that the German people are a great and peace-loving people, who must be brought to realize that they are under bad political management. But we do not think that the way to convince them of that and cause their repudiation of the kaiser is to go around inventing hysterical epithets and calling gopest‘and patriotic citizens ‘“shadow Huns” as Roosevelt is now oing. Roosevelt denounced hundreds of thousands of Ioyal citizens when he attacked the Nonpartisan league. 'He was guilty of a low political trick when he called Mr. Townley of the League a ‘“Bolshe- viki” and referred to him as an undesirable character. Yet Mr. Townley does not refer to Roosevelt as a “shadow Hun” because Roosevelt says on the accompanying page of his book: : “Above all, I gained an impression of the German people which I never got over. From that time to this it would have been quite impossible to make me feel that Germans were really foreigners.” The Leader doesn’t criticize Roosevelt for feeling this way. THE POINT WE MAKE IS THAT IF ANY ONE ELSE BESIDES ROOSEVELT HAD EVER MADE ANY SUCH STATEMENT, ROOSEVELT TODAY WOULD BE CALLING HIM A “SHADOW HUN.” How could the man who wrote and published that page above invent the term “shadow Hun” and go about the country calling loyal citizens who differ with him politically by that name which he uses to express the utmost contempt he is capable of ? “To me Germans are not fo_reignefs,” said Roosevelt a short 26 THEODORE. ROOSEVELT—AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY sons were fascinating students from the University of Leip- sic, both of them belonging to dueling corps, and much scarred in consequence. One, a famous swordsman, was called Der Rothe Herzog (the Red Duke), and the other was nicknamed Herr Nasehorn (Sir Rhinoceros) because the tip of his nose had been cut off in a duel and sewn on again. I learned a good deal of German here, in spite of myself, and above all 1 became fascinated with the Nibelungenlied. German prose never became really easy to me in the sense that French prose did, but for German poetry I cared as much as for English poetry. Above all, I gained an im- ression of the German people which I never got over. g‘rom'th_at time to this it would have been quite impossible to make me feel that the Germans were really foreigners. The affection, the Gemithlichkeit (a quality which cannot be exactly expressed by any single English word), the ca- pacity for hard work, the sense of duty, the delight in study- ing literature and science, the pride in the new Germany, the more than kind and friendly intérest in three strange children — all these manifestations of the German character and of German family life made a subconscious impression upon me which I did not in the least define at the time, but which is very vivid still forty years later. -* When I got back to America, at the age of fifteen, I befian serious study to enter Harvard under ng. Arthur Cutler who later founded the Cutler School in New York. I could |not go to school because I knew so miuch less than mv boys of my age in some subje™ts and much more in oth In ence and history an.- eogri ra lin - xpe pp of G nqanand Frer w2 . » v =nt » ol nd eeks i il \f: to call the meanest name he can set his tongue to. ! A handbill which is being circulated in Washington and Idaho shows the use to which the venomous words of Colonel Roosevelt fikeing put. This leaflet is headed, in black type, “WATCH FOR hind this brew of hate states: ; “COLONEL ROOSEVELT SAYS: .. “The Four Great Leaders of Shadowy Hun Forces in America — !} Today Are Townley, Hillquit, La Follette and Victor Berger.” . while ago. “You are a “shadow Hun,” he says today, when he wants_ ITORS.” Then follows a shameless series of lies about the: League and A. C. Townley. As a final shot, the sinister hand be-: