Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — THE NEUTRALITY OF PONTIUS PILATE [ARTICLE]

THE NEUTRALITY OF PONTIUS PILATE

I " ~ • But as soon as the need for ’ deeds arose Mr. Wilson forgot • all about, “the principle he held > dear.” He promptly announced • that we should be “neutral In • fact as well as in name, in > thought as well as in action,” 1 between the small, weak, unof- • fending nation and the large, > strong nation which was rob- • Ing It of Its sovereignty and In- « dependence. Such neutrality has ’ been compared to the neutrality « of Pontius Pilate. This is un- • Just to Pontius Pilate, who at • least gently urged moderation > on the wrongdoer. From the • speech of Colonel Theodore • Roosevelt, delivered at Lewls- > ton, Me., in behalf of Charles E. • Hughes.

The president gets up early during the hot spell, and there are some who think he may have to continue the practice until November if that man Hughes continues to be so undignified.— Pittsburgh Dispatch.