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Show If Wilson Were Plain Citizen and Roosevelt President. The wolves are after Wilson, with Roose- velt in the van. So Teddy Roosevelt, stand up and answer man to man: If you were at the helm of state In this distress of war. And needed all the wit and grit that you are lioted tor And had your eye fixed on the marks and had the rudder set To clear the reefs and sandbars and the river devil's net, And some ex-pilot who might chance to Join you on the trip, Convinced he was the fittest man on earth to sail the ship. Should stand in front of vou and shout and wave his foolish arms. And swear at you and call you names and . yammer wild alarms, And call the other passengers to witness that he knew A blamed sight better how to steer the ship of state than vou Now honest, Teddy Roosevelt, what do you think you'd do? You know as well as I do that in less time than It takes To shake your widely famed big stick you'd hive him in the brakes, OV. what Is still more llkelv, vOU would chuck him overboard, And feel quite easy when it came to settling with the Lord. I hate to talk to you like this, clear Teddv Roosevelt, For you have been the idol to whom many of us knelt; But to undermine the captain when the loe is In the Held Is as bad as for tho enemy a weapon blank to wield ; in And to stay or slop the pilot when the pilot s at the helm Is a crime of the lirst magnitude in every land and realm. Yet it seems to me that this is just ore- clsely what you've done. Which is why I ask you, Teddy, to stand up and face the. fun: Speak out and say if anything could pos- siblv prevent 1 Tho man who tried to hamper you, from taking punishment, IVirt0e"m?ere Pla"' ai,d yU WCre WIMJAM HERBERT CARRUTH Standford university, January 25, ly i3" |