Show IF 11 WERE MIN r CITIZEN N P IDENT the wolves are after wilson with roosevelt in the van so teddy roosevelt stand up and answer man to man it if you were at the helm of state in this distress of war and needed all the wit and grit that you are noted for and had your eye fixed on the marks andaas the rudder set to clear the reefs and sandbars and tl the driver river devils net and some same ex pilot might chance to on the trip convinced lie he was the fittest man on earth to sail tile the ship should stand in front of you and shout and wave his foolish arms and at you and call you names and yammer wild alarms and call the other passengers to witness that Ahat he knew A blamed sight bight better how haw ito to steer the ship of state than you now honest teddy roosevelt what do you think do you know as well as I 1 do that inless in less time than it takes to shake your widely tamed famed big stick have him in the brakes or what is still more likely you would chuck him overbear d and feel quite easy when it came to tOi Settling with tile tho lord I 1 hate to talk to you like this dear teddy roosevelt for you have been the idol to whom many of us knelt but to undermine the captain alien the toe foe is in the field Is as bad as for the enemy a weapon blank to and to stay or stop the pilot when tiie the pilots a agthe the helm Is a crime of the first magnitude in every land and realm yet it seems to me that this is just precisely what youve done which is why I 1 ask you teddy to stand up and face the fun speak out and say it if anything could possibly prevent the man who tried to hamper you from taking punishment it if ilson were plain citizen and you were president william herbert carruth stanford university january 25 1918 ogden standard |