The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-24
SOUND AND STRONG.
Clear and Cold Logic OF Theodore
Roosevelt, of New York.
The Gothamitc's Telling Shots at Bryan
SgrhJstry = Talks to the Ameri-
can College Men at CHI
cago Coliseum.

The Chicago Coliseum Thursday night,
October IS, under the auspices of the
American College Republican league.
at which Theodore Roosevelt, of New
York, spoke for sound money. lie said:
at is not merely schoolgirls that have
h?stericG: very vicious mob leaders have
them at times and so do well-meaning
demagogues when their heads are turned
by the applause OF men of little intelligence
and their minds are inflated with the
possibility of acquiring solid leadership
In the country. The dominant note In
Mr.. Bryans utterances and in the CAM
palgn waged In his behalf Is the note OF
hysteria Messrs Bryan, Altgeld. Till
man, Debs CoXey and the rest have not
the power to rival the deeds of Marat
Barrere and Robespierre but they are
strikingly like the leaders of the Terror
of France In mental and moral attitude
plus an added touch of the grotesque ris-
ing from the utter folly as well as the base
dishonesty of their trying to play such
role In such country as ours. For Mr..
Bryan we can feel the contemptuous pity
always felt for the small man uneXpect-
eddy thrust into big place He does not
look well In lions skin, but that is chief
ly the fault of those who put the skin on
him. But in Mr.. Altgeld's place we see
too clearly the jaws and hide of the wolf
through the neecy covering. Mr.. Alt
geld Is n much more dangerous man than
Mr.. Bryan. He is much slyer, much more
intelligent, much less silly, much more
free from all the restraints of some pub
lie morality. The one is INSCRIPTIONS
from vanity, the other from calculation.
The one plans wholesale reputation with
a light heart and bubblipg eloquence be-
cause he lacks intelligence and is intoxi-
Gated by hope OF power; the other would
connive at wholesale murder and would
Justify II by elaborate and cunning sophis-
try for reasons known only to his own tor
tuous SOUL For America to put men like
this in control OF her destinies would be
such a dishonor as 1t Is scarcely bearable
10 think of. ..
All Glasses Are Interested.
I'm one way am half inclined to regret
making a speech in this campaign in which
I may seem to speak particularly to any
single body of the community, for this
Is essentially a campaign In which all
Americans are vitality interested with an
equal interest simply because they are
Americans. But there Is a certain appro-
priateness in making o special appeal to
men who have been exceptionally favored
by fortune in the matter of education, be-
cause in this, as IN every other crisis OF
the nations history. we have n right 20
demand the best effort from those who
should be best able to make that effort.
With us in America the college man ac-
Quires by virtue of his education not spe-
cial privileges but special duties, and this
is as IL should be. Every man who has
been better able to get better mental train
ing than his fellows should feel an always
Increasing burden of responsibility for his
actions, and should be ever ready to do
more than even his full duty by the state.
In time of war we have a right 10 expect
that the men from our colleges will shed
their blood. without thought, for the
honor of their land. In my own college
the noblest building Is that built in men,
DRY of the sons Of Harvard who fell in
the civil war: of young Shaw. lying buried
with his negro troops on the ground where
they uncomplainingly went to their doom,
because fate had denied them victory
and they would not accept defeat; OF
young Lowell, who hurt to death flashed
on and tipped with fire the wedge that
rived the hostile lines asunder:' and of
all OF the many others who gladly faced
death In the years that offered most joy
for life, so that the shackles should be
stricken from the slave and the flag that
had been rent asunder be once more made
whole and without a seam.
What the college man should be ever
ready to do In times of malice domestic or
foreign levy. he should also he ready to
do In these no less menacing crises Of peace
when the nations life Is threatened by evils
hand, body and brain. every faculty and
power he possesses should be freely spent
in behalf of the cause of righteousness.
In this presidential election we confront
q danger graver than any that has men
uced the country. from its birth, save at
the time OF the election of 1860 alone. On
the result next month depends whether
we shall hang our heads with shame be-
cause our country has become the dupc
and willing prey Of dishonest demagoEues
because we have announced that we do not
wish to pay our just debts, because we have
announced that we do not wish to enforce
our laws. and are willing to count the ma
tional honor as nothing in the balance
against successful trickcry; or else ne
stand prcuder than ever of our citize,itp
in that great republic whose boast Il aas
been that at last this nation, alons' Of all
nations through the ages. has solved the
problem of preserving orderly liberty, of
st3ndng stoutly for the rights OF the In
dVidual, while yet being careful to allow
no man to be wrongcd, and of guarding
with jealous care that national honor
which can be seriously hurt only by our
own folly or our own weakness. No other
nation can harm us. If we are true to our
selves: but we shall deserve all the misfor-
tune that will surely ovcrtake us ~ we
surrender ourselves into the control Of
the base panderer to dishonesty and dis
orGsr.
Campaign AgaIi,it Morality. .....
Cur foes are waging n campaign which
is at bottom waged primarily against
morality and ability. They hate the men
who pay their debts and obey the laws, ex
actly as they hate the men who win sue
cess in life, and who cause the laws to be
enforced. They use free silver as cry
because they hope Herewith for the mo-
ment to mislecd some honest men and to
bride some dishonest men, but they really
care little for any particular form of polio.
AS regards the currency. At bottom what
they most desire Is to strike down the men,
who, by virtue of leadership in any walk
of life, whether II be In business or the
ology, or law or literature, or science, tend
by their efforts to raise the whole commr-
nifty upword. The forces which they have
rallied behind them, and which give them
their only real power, are the dark and
mean hostility and envy felt for all men
of ability by those unworthy men who
care more to see their brethren fail than
themselves to win success by earning ard
deserving II. Mr. Bryan and his followers
rnil at every form of enterprise and thrift
and at all the countless manifestations
of intelligence and of organized effort
which go to make up civilization. He at
lacks business men as such He attacks
clergymen as such.
1T Is only natural that he should rail
also TT those who have spent PAL OF their
youth In striving to train their minds. He