THE SHADOW ON “SHADOW LAWN.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4475, 16 February 1917, Page 2

THE SHADOW ON “SHADOW LAWN.”

‘ ‘President Wilson’s presence in White House ‘during this great crisis,’ Mr Roosevelt describes as one of the great misfortunes of American history!’ Referring to the Democrats’ plea not to swap horses while- crossing the stream, the speaker said: 11 ‘The worth of such an appeal is not -obvious when the horse, whenever ho comes to stream, first piotends he is going to jump it, then refuses to enter it, and when he has reached the middle alternately moves feebly forward and feebly backward .ind occasionally lies down.’ ■ •“Another shot at President Wilson was the allusion, ‘He has made our statesmanship a thing of empty elocution ; he has wrapped the tiue heart of the nation in a spangled shroud of rhetoric'.’ . ~ “Mr Roosevelt's biggest slap/ Kil N s the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, “which was applauded to the echo, was when lie played upon the name of the President s summer home. known 'as Shadow Lawn, and said grimly: “President- Wilson now dwells at Shadow Lawn. There should be shadows enough at Shadow Laun shadows'of men. women and children who have risen from the ooze of the ocean bottom and from graves m foreign lands; shadows of toe he file,ss whom Wilson did not dare to protect lest he might have to face danger ; shadows of babies gasping pit>fully as they sank under the waves; shadows of women outraged and slain by bandits; shadows of Boyd ana Adair and their troopers who lay m the Mexican desert, the black blood crusted round their mouths and tneii dim eyes looking upward because J resident Wilson had sent them to do a L sk and had then shamefully abandoned them to the mercy of foes who knew no mercy. Those arc shadows proper for Shadow Lane —shadows or deeds t-lrnt were never done ; shadows of -oftv words that weir followed b> no "action ; shadows of the tortured dead.’ ”