Show THE NEW FREEDOM COLONEL ROOSEVELT TT n after ter due duo and maturo mature C CorONEL deliberation can find no sustenance in I. I President rt Freedom Employing the colonels colonel's s sown Wilson's Wilsons s 's New own words wordy he has bas made a n patient and sincere sincero effort to find out what Mr 1 Wilson i means by the New free Free Free- dons dom and is in doubt whether it has any meaning meaning ataU at atall all aU Air Mr fr Roosevelt elt encounters the same difficulty in in searching Mr- Mr Wilsons Wilson's writings writing for concrete ideas that wc we have ha frequently described he ho finds find the Presidents President's product to be prolific of happily chosen words but mm amazing Jy deficient in de definite helpful suggestions the of displeasing to find our It is is quite reverse of the Presidents President's addresses oft expressed o and r written discussion of current issues shared bySa by so Sa keen an m analyst as ns Mr Ir Roosevelt Roose N None has eVer exceeded the colonel M as a a discriminating critic of men and measures few equal him in the clarity of thought and expression that unerringly searches out tho the weak point i in n an opponents opponent's armor and tilts his sharp harp epigrammatic epigrammatic opi- opi epi- epi grammatic lance with such availing a aim The colonels colonels colonel's col col- onel's lapse from the straight and narrow path in in did not affect his hig discursive powers whatever hate tlc tho c effect feet may have been upon l his is influence as a constructive constructive con con- constructive force The N New CW Freedom impresses many persons as it has the Its atmosphere seems chemically ideate ideals discernible through the tile pure and r wherever are bewildering ma mass of words they arc are of an c character but bu t the they aro as ns sounding BOunding brass and a tinkling tink tink- tinkling ling cymbal because Mr r. r Wilson fails to redeem promise promise promise prom prom- ise with performance The hi high h ground he ho occupies in ill theory knows him not at all in practice his acts do donot donot donot not conform with his pretensions ons His HiB political principles principles prin principles prin- prin as set forth in the Now New Freedom arc aro as austere as s the tho beliefs of the flagellants but ho ignores them so o a o utterly in his administration of public affairs that they are arc meaningless they are as empty as the tho diction in which he couches them A President who sincerely desired to live live- the New hew T Freedom would not reduce a ordinate co branch of go government to the abject subservience that he lie has forced upon the Congress of the United Stat States h he hp would have o defended the civil service instead of casting casting casting cast cast- ing it bound and defenseless at the feet o of the spoils spoils- men n ho would have enforced the dictum of a majority major majority major major- ity ty of the American people in economic economic legislation instead of using th the power a minority gave him to experiment with the nations nation's prosperity he would have transacted the business of the nation in the broad lg light i ht t of day instead ad of in tho the dark secrecy of his private closet Mr Jr Roosevelt is iR quite right in doubting whether the Ne New Freedom has any meaning at all Actions speak louder than words and lofty principles that are utterly repudiated and ignored by their sponsor cannot cannot can can- not justly be le regarded as presented for other than eff ct Even Een were this gospel of right living clothed in phrases that mean something definite it would fail to command respect because of its ite authors author's contemptuous contemptuous contemptuous disavowal wal of its teachings by his own acts acte Insofar Insofar In In- as the terms the President employs in discuss discuss- discussing lug ing the Now Freedom disclose anything any thing hing to that extent b they arc are meaningless because Mr Wilson does not practice them |