frn ■ t 4 .<■* - 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 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*