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Show Refused To Speak President Wilson refused to speak In Independence Hall on the ono hundred und twenty-eighth anniversary anniver-sary of tho signing of tho Declaration Declara-tion of Independence In that lull, and he so refused, becauso lnasm ich as over ono hundred of our me i, women and children had Just been murdered on tho high seas ho regarded re-garded It aa tho very moment when ho would not caro to arouse the sen tlment of patriotism." Mr. Wilson has a positive renins for striking when tho Iron la co'd and fearing to strike when tt.o iron Is hot. If ono hundred and twenty-eight twenty-eight years ago Washington and .Jefferson, .Jef-ferson, and tho other men who signed tho Declaration of Independence Independ-ence had folt tho same way nbout patriotism, and tho same way about fighting as Mr. Wilson doe, wo would never have had a country. Had Lincoln felt tho samo way, thero would bo no Buch thing lis 'ho American Republic now In existence. Spoech of Col. Roosevelt at Battle Creek, Michigan, In Behalf of Mr. Hughes. ami |