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Governor Roosevelt Removes
the Cover From the Hag
gard and Deceitful Face
'«* of Fusion.
A Fierce and Forceful Fire on the
Fallacy of Bryanism by Amer
ica’s Soldier-Statesman.
Quotes General Lawton In Saying That
the Blood of American Soldiers Is Oa
the Hands of American Sympa
thisers of Agolnaldo.
Awaking to the National League ot
Re^blican clubs in session at St. Paul,
Governor Roosevelt gave utterance to
some things which in a large degree
show the trne character of the man.
He said: “A politician who isn’t hon
est, no matter how able or smart he is,
is a curse to the community. Don’t let
any man delude you by trying to con
vince you that he can help you by
being a little dishonest on your side.
He will^desert you when the crisis
comes.
“I have met here today a few men
from my old stamping grounds in the
Dakotas and Montana, where I used to
be a delegate to the cattle conventions.
There are a few of my fellow delegates
here tonight. I was then in the cow
business myself. Out there the cow
puncher and the branding iron took the
place of the fence. We used to brand
the calves every year, and if a calf was
passed over it became a maverick. It
was the rule in those days that a mav
erick when found might be branded
with the brand of the ranch on which
it was found.
“And one day I was riding over the
ranch with a cow puncher and we came
across a maverick. It was on the
Thistle brand ranch. The cow puncher
roped and tied the maverick and we
got off to put a brand on it. I remem
ber that I took off the cinch iron to help
put on the brand. And I said to the
covW puncher: ‘Remember, it is the
fThiJtle brand.’ He grinned and said
he anew his business. But I saw he
was putting on my brand. ‘Hold on
[there,’I said,'you are putting on my
brand.’ ‘I always put on my boss’
brand,’ he replied. I said to him: ‘You
can go to the ranch and get your time.
If you will steal for me, you will steal
from me.’
■ “And that applies in politics as well
as in the cow business. You have got
to have honesty first, and you have
got to have courage with it. I have
mighty Vlittle use for the honest,
timid man, the man who takes
out his honesty in his own parlor,
but who can’t trust himself with it out
in the world to do his work among his
fellows. He may be very nice and
pleasant, but he is no use.
“But no matter how honest and brave
f a man may be, if he is a natural born
| fool you can’t do anything with him.
He must have the
Saving Grace of Common Sense.
Honesty, courage and common sense are
needed in public life just as they are
needed in private life. And it is be
cause I believe that associations like
this club, associations like this league,
make for the elementary decencies of
political life that I take such pleasure
in addressing you tonight.
V<N do not address you as a Repub
lican: addressing Republicans, but as an
! American addressing his fellow Ameri
r cans, urging them to stand for honesty
! and the honor of the flag. We have
come here to begin the work of a cam
paign more vital to American interests
t-Tmti any that has taken place since the
close of the civil war. We appeal not
only to Republicans, but to all good
citizens that are Americans in fact as
well as in name, to help us in re-elect
g President McKinley. It was indeed
tat infinite importance to elect him
A four years ago. Yet the need is even
greater now. Every reason whioh then
1 obtained in his favor obtains now, and
many more have been added. Foui
years ago - Ae success of the Populistic
Democracy would have meant fearful
misery, fearful disaster at home; il
would have meant the shame that if
worse even than misery and disaster.
Today it would mean all this, and in
addition the unmeasurable disgrace ol
; abandoning the proud position we have
| taken, of flinching from the great wort
' we have begun.
“We ask support for President Mo
v Kinley becaase of what he has actually
done, of what he now stands for and
> ty$8es, and because of the marvelout
' wo 1/that has been accomplished undei
his administration. We ask the sup
port of all upright citizens because
- against him are arrayed
The Force* of Chaotic Evil {
because of the brooding menace to oni
moral and industrial welfare which h
implied in the present attitude and pur
pose of the Populistic-Democracy.
' “We know definitely what we be
lieve and we say it outright.
“Our opponents, who represent al
the forces of discontent, malice anc
envy, formed and formless, vague anc
concrete, can hardly be said to knov
what they really do believe, becaus<
I the principles they profess, if $ut fort!
I nakedly, ar$ so revolting, even to theii
own followers, that they like at least t(
try to wrap the mantle of hypocrisy
around them. They rant about trusts,
but they have nothing practical to ad
vance in the way of remedy.
“Nor is this to be wondered at, wher
one of the makers of their platform, th<
j representative from New YQrJc, aqdth<
le^jer of^ that organization in wev
York, are both themselves among the
most prominent stockholders in. the
worst trust to be found today in the
United States—the ice trust, whioh has
justly exposed itself to the criticism
which our opponents often unjustly ap*
ply to every form of industrial effort.
“We now oome to the Philippines and
to the general question of expansion.
Many of the positions taken |y the
Populistio-Democracy at the moment
are so palpably dishonest and main*
tained in such palpable bad faith that
to state them is sufficient. It is hardly
necessary to discuss what they say
about “the constitution following the
flag.” The Democratio party never
championed the doctrine thus set forth
save in the dark days, when it had be*
come the
Handmaiden of Slavery
and rebellion, and danced to any tune
which the apostles of slavery chose to
pipe. When, under Jefferson, the great
West beyond the Mississippi was ac
quired, when, largely through the in*
strumentality of Jackson, Florida was
added to the Union, the new provinces,
with their Indian populations, were
governed precisely and exactly on the
theory under whioh the Philippines are
now governed. President Jefferson se
cured the Louisiana purchase just as
President McKinley secured the Philip
pines and Andrew Jackson warred
against the Seminoles when we had
acquired Florida from Spain, precisely
as General Mac Arthur is now warring
against the bandits among the Tagala
in Luzon. Unless we are willing to de*
prive Jefferson and Jackson of the
meed of honor which has been held to
be peculiarly theirs, we cannot deny
the same high praise to President Mc
Kinley. At Kansas Oity, the men en
gaged in preaching the gospel of dis
honor and repudiation solemnly assert
ed that ‘imperialism abroad will lead
quickly and inevitably to despotism at
home.’ Ton men of Minnesota and the.
Dakotas who are here this evening can
appreciate the fatuousness of that state
ment by the simple process of thinking
whether your liberties have been
abridged by the return of the Minne
sota and Dakota troops who won such
honor for themselves in the Philippines.
There are geometrical propositions so
essentially absurd that mathematicians
hold their mere statement to be equiv
alent to their refutation. So it is with
this proposition. If it were worth
while I would point out its dishonesty
and insincerity. But flagrant though
these are, its absurdity is so much more
flagrant that nothing need be said.
‘‘So it is with their cant about mili
tarism and ‘intimidation and oppres
sion at home’ as following what they
are pleased to call ‘conquest abroad.’
We cannot argue with them on this
proposition, because no serious man
thinks for one moment that they be
lieve what they assert. During the great
civil war there were many preachers of
the gospel of disloyalty among the so
called copperheads of the north, and
these men, like their representatives
among our opponents today, prophesied
the subdivision of the country when the
great armies of Grant and Sherman
should come back from the war; but the
great armies of Grant and Sherman re
turned to civil life and were swallowed
up among their fellow citizens without
a ripple. A considerable army was
kept for a year or two on the Indian
frontier and in some of the southern
states, but it never entered the head of
a human being to attempt what
The Copperhead Prophets,
of disaster bad frantically foretold. In
’98 and ’99 yon yourselves saw regi
ments and brigades and divisions re
turn from Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines, to be disbanded and swal
lowed up in the mass of the people, if
volunteers, and if regulars to assume
their ordinary work in fort and canton
ment, and after greeting them on the
day they returned the bulk of the peo
ple would never have been able to tell,
except by the newspapers, whether they
had come back or not,
"Of all idle chatter the talk of the
danger of militarism is the idlest. The
army we have now is, relatively to the
population of the country, less in size
than it has been again and again dur
the last century and a quarter, in times
when we had only our own Indians to
guard against. In Washington’s admin
istration Gen. Wayne spent some three
years in Ohio warring against the
Tagals of that day, with an army under
Viinn larger in proportion to the then
population of the nation than all our
present national forces, regulars and
volunteers combined, and there is just
as little danger from the evils of mili
tarism now as there was then. It is as
utter folly to talk of our liberties as
menaced by the existence of a force
capable of keeping order in our outly
ing possessions as it would have been to
t-allf of their being menaced in the
seventies by the soldiers who followed
Custer and his fellows against Go
manche, Apache and Sioux.
"I would ask those who by their
words have encouraged the warfare of
the Filipinos against us to recall the
letter of General Lawton, written just
before his death, in which he pointed
out that the blood of his soldiers red
dened the hands of the men at home
who encouraged
Oar Foes Abroad.
“Some years ago when certain east
erners were clamoring in the name of
. humanity against the army officers who
. warred to protect the western settlers
. from the Indians, General Sheridan
’ wrote: ‘I do not know bow far these
i humanitarians should be excused on
. account of their ignorance, but surely
' it is the only exchee that cap give a
i shadow of justification for aiding and
' abetting such horrid crimes.’
“The scheming politicians at Kansas
City have not even the excuse of ignor
ance when they incite the insurgents
i to fresh warfare against our soldiers
i with the base hope that thereby they
i may further their own political advance*
' mCnt,” _ .
THE UNITED STATES
Supplies Nearly All the VPorld With
Wooden War* Nowaday*.
This country Is the source of supply
of wooden ware In general of the en
tire civilized world. American brooms
are exported to many countries, and
broom hxmdles are sent by us to
Australia. Wherever churns are used
there you will find those of American
make. American w^shtubs go chiefly
to the Argentine Republic, South
America and the Latin-American coun
tries. Meeting in competition, how
ever, a galvanized sheet Iron article
that up to date the American article
has not been able to supplant as to
washtuba, the whole world is ours. The
American output of Ice cream freezers
is on top throughout the world, wher
ever ice, either natural or artificial, is
known. Ten chances to one the bulk
of the ice cream eaten In Melbourne,
Calcutta, or any other city or country,
not excepting Europe, is made in
American freezers. Take many other
of the simple and homely articles of
daily or common use, for example
clothes pins. No matter where you
go you will find that the pins used in
hanging clothes are made for the most
part in the United States. Wooden
pails, chopping trays and bowls, fold
ing chairs, many different kinds of re
frigerators, some of which can be
taken apart for transportation, pastry
boards, ironing boards, all owe their
origin to Yankee invention and
thoughtfulness. School slates made in
this country, all of which have wooden
frames, find a ready sale abroad, but
meet with opposition from Germany
and England. The American product,
however, sells up to the standard of
either. It may surprise some people to
slates find their way to distant Bur
learn that thousands of American
mah. The wooden ware of American
manufacture having successfully en
tered Into competition with that of
England and Germany on their own
soil is now branching out and invading
Russia.—C'.ncinnatl Enquirer.
A CITY OF BEOQARS.
When Convention! Are Held In New
York They Are In Evidence.
“One reason that New York city is a
bad place to hold a convention,” said
an up-state politic*<n to a New York
Sun reporter, “la that the delegates
are exposed to the greatest crowd of
beggars that can be gathered any
where on earth. I don’t mean profes
sional beggars, but their fellow-towns
men. There is not a town in the
country, and particularly not a town
in the state, that hasn’t sent a great
many people to New York. Of course
a great many of these people have not
succeeded in life here. They welcome
a state convention for the reason that
it brings to town people they knew at
home, and they feel themselves free to
go to these people and ask for help.
The politicians are easy marks for
them, for most of these people have
friends or relatives where the politi
cians, to whom they apply, live, and
if, after they relate pitiful stories, the
politician turns them down they go
off and write letters to their friends
in his town giving him a black eye. A
great many of them don't scruple to
lie about him, and what he has done
while in the city, with the result that
when he gets home he has explana
tions to make. I’ve had six people
from my town here at the hotel to see
me today. Two of them wanted money
to get out of the city. When I told
them I had no money to spare they
demanded railroad passes, and insisted
I could get them, because I was in
politics. It happens that I can’t. The
other four wanted money help. I gave
money to three of them, though I
hadn’t a cent to spare. I did it to
save trouble at home, for if I hadn’t, I'
knew these people would write home
about me. State conventions should
never be held in New York city.”
A Mother Tells How She Saved Her
Little Daughter,3 Life.
I am the mother of eight children and
have had a great deal of experience with
medicines. Last summer my little
daughter bad the dysentery in its worst
form. We thought she would die. I
tried everything I could think of, but
nothing seemed to do her any good. I
saw by an advertisement in our paper
that Chamberlain’s colic, cholera and di
arrhoea remedy was highly recommend
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proved to be one of the very best medi
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saved my little daughter's life. I am
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it at first it would have saved me a great
deal of anxiety and my little daughter
much suffering.—Yours truly, Mrs. Qeo.
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Liberator'* Granddaughter.
Signorina Loretta Italia Garibaldi,
wbo baa entered the preparatory
school of the Woman’s college, of
Baltimore, la the granddaughter of the
great Italian liberator. She Intends
to go through the college returning to
Italy only for her summer vacations.
Bad Form.
In Russia It Is not considered good
form for a girl to dance a whole waits
or polka with one partner. Three or
four men dance a round or two
each with the same lady, returning
her to her original partner at the end
of the dance.
Extreme hot weather is a great tax up
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puny and feeble they should be given a
dose of White’s cream vermifuge. Price
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Story of » Slave.
To be bound hand and foot for years
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.Wounded Burglars Story.
A wounded man went to the Red
Cross hospital in New York and said
he was a soldier and had been shot In
the Philippines. It turned out that
he was a burglar, and had been shot
in the hip.
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