Logan Republican | 1916-10-24 | Page 5 | Empty Phrases instead of Concrete Action

empty pH'rases'Vnstea'd if: OF CONCRETE ACTION. I Not once has PresJdent'WIIsoni j ' t squarely placed before' the Am- j I erlcan people the question whleh J t Abraham Lincoln put before the I II American people In 1860; what j II Is our duty7 Mot once has he I'll I'-ll appealed to moral Idealism, to j j the stern enthusiasm of strong I J J men for the right. On the con. jjj trary, he hat employed every j II elocutionary devlco to lull to j II sleep our sense of duty, to make I II us content with words Instead j I of deeds, to make our moral j Idealism and enthusiasm evap- j II orate In empty phrases Instead I of being reduced to concrete I II action. From the speech of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at I I Lewlston, Maine, In behalf of Charles E. Hughes. j it )