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Mendacious Journalism Reprinted from »n article by Theodore Rooaevelt In The Outlook, by special arrangement with The Outlook, of which Theodore Rooaevelt la Contributing Bdltor. Copyright. 1910. by The Outlook Company. All Right* Reaerved. In the New York Evening Post of Friday, August Jfi. there appeared In an editorial article the following state ments: " T will make the corporations come to time,' shouted Roosevelt to the mob But did he not really mean that he would make them come down with the cash to elect him, as he did before? For a man with Mr Roose velt’s proved record It Is simply dis gusting humbug for hint to rant about the corporations upon whose treasur er* he fawned when he was president and wanted their mm'pv for his cam - Satin floes he thlnK I)13* nobody has a memory which goes back to IliA life Insurance Investlgsflons, and that everybody has forgotten the $50,000 taken from widows and orphans and added to Theodore Roosevelt's polit ic*! corruption fund? I>ld he not take a big check from the Beef trust, and glad to get It? And new he Is going to make the corporations come to lime! One can have respect for a sin cere radical, for an honest fanatic, for an agitator or levelcr who believes that ho Is doing Clod's will: but it Is nard to be patient with a man who talks big but acts mean, whose eye Is always to the main chance politically, and who lets no friendship, no gen erosity. no principle, no moral scruple stand for a moment between hlmse'f and the goal upon which he has sot his overmastering ambition. " ‘This champion of purity, (his roar er for political virtue, Ir the man who was for years, when In political life, hand In glove with the worst political corruptionists of his day; who loaded to Platt, who pralsee Quay, who paid court to Hanna: under him as presi dent Alurlch rose to the height of tils power, always on good terms with Roosevelt; It was Roosevelt who. In 190*. wrote an open Utter urging the re-eleetlou of Speaker Cannon, against whom mutterlngs had then begun to rise. It was Roosevelt who asked Har rtman to come to the White House secretly, who took hli money to buy votes In New York, and who after wards wrrote to "My Dear Sherman”— ves, the same Sherman reviling the capitalist to whom tie had previously written saying; "You and I are prac tical men.’ ” ' The Evening Port Is not In Itstdf suf ficiently Important to warrant an an swer, but a* representing a class with whose hostility it it necessary to reck on til any genuine movement for de cent government, It ts worth while to speak of It Tnere are plenty of wealthy people in tills country, and of i Intellectual bangurs-i n of wealthy peo I ’-ho are delighted to engage in any movement for reform which does -ot touch the wickedness of certain <• ■ corporations and of certain men t wealth People of this class wit’ tie in favor of any aesthetic move i i -t th y v ill favor any movement -f t the small crafting politician, t • t the,fra' 1 labor leader, or any man of that stamp; hut tlmy can not he trusted the minute that the re form assumes i ’t dimensions to Jeopardize so much of the established order of th'ngs as gives an unfair and Improper advantage to the great cor poration, and to those directly and In directly responsive to Its wishes and dependent upon it The Evening Post 3nd papers of the same kind, ami the people whose views they represent, world favor nttarkii.R a g uig of small ho;-os who wish to control the Re publican party: but they would, ns the Evening Post has shown, far rather see these small bosses win than see a movement trtumnh which alms not merely at the overthrow of the small political boas, but at depriving the <on>oraTion of Its improper influence over polities, depriving the man of wealth of any advantage beyond that which belongs to him as a simple American citizen. They would be against corporations only after such corporations had been caught in the crudest kind of criminality. I have never for one moment count ed upon the support of the Evening Post or of those whom It represents 1n the efTort for cleanliness and de cency within the Republican party, be cause the Evening Post would support, such a movement only on condition that It was not part of a larger move ment for the betterment of social con ditions. But this is not all. In the struggle for honest politics there 1b no more a place for a liar than there Is for the thief, and In a movement de signed to put an end to the dominion of the thief but little good can be de rived from the assistance of the liar. Of course objection will be made to my use of this language. My answer Is that I am using It merely scientin cally and descriptively, and because no other terms express the facts with the necessary precision. In the ar ticle la which the Evening Poet comes to the defense of those In present eon trol of the Republican party In New York state, whom It, has affected to oppose In the past, the evening Post through whatever editor personally wrote the article, practised every known form of mendacity Probably the Evening Post regards the decalogue as outworn; but if it i will turn to It and read tbe eighth and ninth commandments, It wl1! >e that bearing false witness Is con« tinned as strongly as theft Itself. To take but one Instance out pf t{je many In this artlcje, the Evening Rost says; "ft was Roosevelt who asked HaiTtmau to come to the White House secrotl/, who took tils money to buy votes In New York, and who afterwards wrote to ‘My Dear Sherman’—yes, tbe same Sherman—reviling the capitalist to whom he had previously written, say ing: ‘You and I are prnctlcnl men.’” Not only Is every Important statement In this sentence false, but the writer who wrote It knew It was false. As far as I was concerned, every men visited (he White Hoinje openly, and Mr Harritnan among the others. I took no money from Mr. Ifarrlmnn se cretly or openly to buy votes or for any other purpose. Whoever wrote (he article In the Evening Post in question knew that thlB was the foul est and basest lie when he wrote the sentence, for he quotes the same let ter In which I had written to Mr. Hnr riman ns follows: 'What l have to say to you can he snld to you ns well after election as before, but I would like to see you some time before I write my message." 1 am quoting without the letter before me, but the quotation Is substantially, If not ver bally, accurate That statement in this letter to Harrlman Is of coins* on Its face absolutely lucompatthlo with any thought that T was asking him for campaign funds, for It Is < course out of the question that 1 could tell him equally well what I hail to say after election If it referred In anv possible way to getting money before election. Tills Is so clear that any pretense of misunderstanding (s proof positive of the basest dishonesty in whoever wrote the article In question. As a matter of fact, when Mr. flarri man called It was to complain that the national committee would not turn over for the use of the state cam paign In which he was Interested funds to run that campaign, and to nsk me to tell Cortel.vou to give hltn aid for the state campaign. Mr. Cor telyou is familiar with the facts. In other words, the statement of the Eve ning Post Is not only false and mali cious, Is not only in direct contradic tion of the facte but Is such that It could only have b >en made by a man who, knowing the facts, deliberately intended to pervert them. Such an act stands on a level of Infamy with the worst act ever performed by a corrupt member of the legislature or city official, and stamps the writer with the same moral brand that stamps the bribe-taker. I have seen only a tel, graphic ab stract of the article, apparently con taining quotations from It Practical ly every statement made in these quotations Is a falsehood. To but one more shall 1 allude. The article speukH of my having attacked corporations, and. referring directly to tny Ohio speeches, of my having "sought to Inflame the mob and make mischief." In those speeches the prime stand 1 took was ngalnst mob violence as shown by the labor people who are engaged In controversy with a corporation. My statement was In effect that the first duty of the state and the first duty of the officials was to put down disorder and to put down mob violence, and that after such action had been taken, then It was the duty of officials to Investigate the cor poration, and if It Viad done wrong *-o make It pay the penalty of Its wrongs fihi! "to provide against the wrongdo ing in the future, it Is but another Instance of the peculiar baseness. Hie peculiar moral obliquity, of the Eve ning Post that It should pervert tho truth In so shameless a fashion. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Cheyenne. Wyo., August 27, 1910. The Only Way. “Why did he leave all hts money to the black sheep of the family?" "He said the other children were too good to go to jail.” "Well?" "And he wanted to fix It so the black sheep would be too rich.” Pa's Idea of It Little Willie—Say, pa, what Is pride? Pa—Pride, my son, Is walking with a gold-headed cane when you are not lame. OPENING ATTRACTION AT CEHLING’S OPERA HOUSE, ON WEDNESAY NIGHT SEPT. 21. “THE SQUAW MAN.” /*.— DRUG HABIT IS SPREADING Vice on Increase In England—Ingre dients Vary From Chloral to Alcohol. English society is becoming serious ly exercised about the habit of taking drugs, which appears to be spreading more rapidly than ever, judging from some of the correspondence which is appearing on the subject. What was at one time the vice ot lit" lew is de clared now to he ihe practise of many—worried busirn ■ ? men, profes sional men, "cursed with brain lag," jaded society women and till the other ivctlms of the killing rush of modern life. A case is narrated in if. A. 1*. of a hospital mine who recently app led for relief at an Inc brlatcs' homo, con fessing that she had not bet n really sober—that is to s;iy. more or 'css un dor the Influence of stimulant---for she years. A spoil of unusimlyl lio.ivy work had driven her to cocaine. H r holiday, which ought to have fol lowed immediately, bad to be post poned for some reason connected with , the hospital work, an«l she continued taking cocaine until w hi n relic! cume at last she found herself unable to give tip her daily allowance of the drug. Sometimes she took brandy to relieve her craving for the drug, hut always she returned. \s in evey other case, the gradual supping away of the will power weakened h< r ef forts to break tlm habit, and ill the end her friends had to take the most drastic measures to force her into an inebriates’ home. Here the ha if wax successfully broken after an agonis ing painful "cure." One woman who led n very busy so cial life used to lake regularly a mix true of chloral, sa! volatile, brandy and soda, while another dosed herself with a mixture of sal-volatile and red lavender. Another extraordinary case was heard of recently. Three specialists had been called in to examine a wom an, and though all three agreed that she was suffering from overstimula tion they were utterly unable to dis cover the cause of h*-r symptoms The mystery was not sovled until some one happened to mention that tbo woiimn kept h bottle of sulphate of quinine in her boudoir. She then con fessed that she was simply suffering from excessive doses of quinine. The stage, literature anil art each contribute a large number to the vic tims of the drug and alcohol habits. Recently n once famous artist was found sleeping on the embankment, ha>ing falle nthrough every stage of depravity from occasional indulgence in mborphia to sheer mania for alco hol. Many men and women connected with the stage have fallen victims to ihe craving lor stimulants, always with disastrous results to iheir pro fessional reputations. One actress, for whom the critics had propheeied a brilliant career, commencced taking u in-phi" i’ ' ns a voii.-. e isis. She was delighted with the immediate lien fit she d ■ iv <i t:i l.e drug, and used it again and ng .in. Relore she or any one else had realized what was hap niniv. ill in'ii. "nr., woman had become a morphin t :'-"tine She noT i ulv . ' in her art, but her acting was 1 • : > wing rapidly. Hefore the end e me ir had become impossible tor hei to obtain ;in en gagement. No m-mug^r could de pend on lo r con i! !' to the theater, t-rd when lie did p it in an appear ance. it was only charitable to de scribe her acting a- erratic. She be came go tackle s fn her craving for stimulants that sit drank eatt do co logne, Florida water or anything el*** of an alcoholic nature. In this oasae. at any rale, d, ,'ti i ante, as a merciful release. Alcohol Satr e as Work. When dr.dr want to work, hut you want to look as ft' you had t I eel ■ yi . iiad done a hard day’s work and fie the same condi tion ... thivc.li yon !• d done a day’s work take n ci m 1o of drinks of | whisky. Medical science has estab lished '<> i’s own s.;tisfaetion tho fact that ttfcohol hn-- the fame effect on lh laicuri hiuiy a* n day’s work. 1 ):• VVir.iaiii ,r V ■ k. Mho lectured at Chicairo recently on The Action of Alcohol on the Different Organs of •lie [tody, l'rom a Acimtlflc Stand point," is the authority for this stnte llieilt. Dr. Wick declared that experi ments in two men, one of whom had had a few drinks and th. other of whom had worked all day. had the same results. “Alcohol tires the nerves and mus cles,” said Dr. Wick. “One glass of beer shows a marked effect on tho nervous centers and gives a tendency to hasty and incoherent movements.’* Cut this advertisement out as a r*,:i md«*r: it will not appear ngait PAYABLE IN GOLD Which is the best piano piece for displaying the tone of a Piano? To the first person naming the piece which a disinter ested committee of well known Chicago musical authorities shall decide is perhaps the best for dis playing the tone of a piano we will pay $50.00in gold Conditions The piece suggested must he be published and on the market. Only one piece may be nominated. 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