Show I Roosevelt Condemned 1 The Los Angeles Times Tines has been consistently Wilson anti except when a question of national peril was in ins When Theodore Roosevelt broke loose a few days ago at the citizen soldier citizen soldier camp the time California dan daily came rushing to the side of Wil Wil- Wilson Wilson son with this editorial A Crazed Demagogue It is a pity that Roosevelt ever emerged from Patagonia or some some- where If ho he had been lost along with the river that he didn't discover discover dis dis- cover the nation would have been the gainer For an president ex-president of the tho United States State s to declare in a public publio pub pub- lic lio address that his country had played an ran ignoble part among the nations that it had tamely submitted to seeing Geeing the tho weak whom we wo had covenanted to protect protect protect pro pro- wronged and had seen our own men and children murdered on tho high seas without without without with with- out action on our part was a shameful thing If Roosevelt's statements had been true It was execrable taste in him to make them But being mostly lies ties or ort orI t I half lies it was a crime in in an ex ex ex- president of the United States to repeat them Americans who are arc pacifists Roosevelt characterized as 15 poltroons poltroons poltroons pol in favor of silly arbitration arbitration ti tion n treaties and of fatuous platitudes at peace congresses con con- makers who refused to make shipments of arms arm to the allies should be put he said on a roll of dishonor The of this egotistical cal megalomaniac who has chewed the betel leaves of unwarranted un un- unwarranted warranted ambition until he is running amuck his country with the spittle of a vicious vicious tongue are are Important only because they are uttered by bya a former president of tho the United States and because millions of people in in Europe will regard them themas as aa representative American ut utterances ut ut- when in truth they represent represent rep rep- resent nothing but the spleen the III digested ill thoughts the folly I and the of an unprincipled unprincipled un un- principled and disgruntled dema dema- gogue In another editorial that newspaper said Jingo Roosevelt Loud and piercing cries for forwar forwar forwar war come from the shores of Oyster Oyster ter Bay where Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose- Roose velt vet sits incubating his sad thoughts Tho The colonel wants to togo go goto to war with Germany without delay And so far as heard from nobody has expressed any objections bons to his going to war with Germany and fighting the war all by himself Wade in in m colonell As to Roosevelt's criticisms of President Wilson Wilson's policy in the treatment of the delicate situations situations situa situa- that have arisen the verdict ver vcr dict diet of tho country is Ia that they are inopportune unseemly and unpatriotic From no no noman man in the country could such expressions expression come with such ill grace as from froma a former president who so sowell sowell sowell well what burdens a president must carry in n ordinary times and what an appalling load road is heaped upon President Wilson now In this hour every loyal American Ameri Amen can must be inspired by a wish to uphold the president and stand standby standby standby by him through th thick ck and thin in his most serious and trying duty of avoiding embroilment in war if possible while insisting upon the rights of American citizens and preserving the honor of tho the American nation The president has shown wisdom and resourcefulness resourcefulness resourcefulness resource resource- and courage in meeting the emergencies that have arisen out of the great war and he ho is a avery avery avery very and unworthy American who would seek to break him down In his attack on the president Colonel Roosevelt has again proven a disgruntled and an undesirable type of citi zen Fortunately the country is not in in a mood to listen to him Tho heart of this great nation beats with its president the prayers players of this great nation are rising for him and the hands of this great nation are clasped with his |