The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-10-24
SOUND AND STRONG.
Clear ana Cold Logic of Theodore
Roosevelt, OF New York.
The Gothamite's Telling Shots at bryan
soPhistry - Talks TO the Amerl-
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. Tie said:
"It Is not merely schoolgirls that have
Mysteries: very vicious mob leaders have
them at times and so do woll-meaning
demagogues when their heads are turned
by the applause OF men OF little intelligence
and their minds are inflated with the
possibility or acquiring solid leadership
In the country. The dominant note in
Mr.. Bryan's uttcrances and I'm the cam
paign waged In his behalf is the note OF
hysteria. Messrs. Bryan, Altgeld, Till
man. Debs. Coxey and tho rest have not
the power TO rival the deeds OF Marat,
Barrere and Robespierre, but they are
strikingly like the leaders Of the Terror
or 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 10 play such
role In such n country as ours. For Mr..
Bryan we can feel the contemptuous pity
always felt for the small man unexpect-
eddy thrust into big place. lie does not
look well In a lions skin. but that IL chief
Is 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 heecy covering. Mr. Ait
geld is a 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 interruptions
from vanity. the other from calculation.
The one plans wholesale reputation with
a light heart and bubbling eioquence, be-
cause he lacks intelligence and IS intoXi-
Gated by hope OF power: the other would
connive at wholesale murder and would
Justify IL by elaborate and cunning sophis-
try for reasons known only 10 his own tor
tuous soul For America 10 put men like
this In control OF her destinies would be
such dishonor as II is scarcely bearable
10 think Of
All Glasses Are Interested.
I'm one way am half inclined 10 regret
making a speech I'm this campaign IN which
i may seem 10 speak particularly 20 any
single body Of the community, for this
is essentially campaign In which all
Americans are vitality interested, with an
equal interest simply because they are
Americans. But there Is q certain appro-
priateness In making a special appeal 20
men who have been exceptionally favored
by fortune in the matter or education. be-
cause In this. as IN every other crisis OF
the nations history. we have a right 20
demand the best effort from those who
should be best able 10 make that effort.
With us I'm America the college man ac-
uures 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 90 get better mental train
ing than his fellows should feel an always
increasing burden OF responsibility for hts
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 90 expect
that the men from our colleges viii shed
their blood. without thought. for the
honor OF their land In my own college
the noblest building IS that built I'm mem
DRY OF tho sons OF Harvard who fell In
the civil war; OF young Shaw. lying buried
with his negro troops on the ground whore
they overwhelmingly went TO their doom,
because fate had denied them victory,
and they would not accept defeat; OF
young Lowell, who hurt 10 death, flashed
on and tipped with IRE 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 asundcr be once more made
whole and without seam
what the college man should be ever
ready TO do In times OF malice, domestic or
foreign levy. he should also be ready 20
DO IN these no less menacing crises OF peace
when tho nations life IS threatened by evils
as terrible as those OF any war. Heart anu
hand, body and brain. every faculty and
power ne Possesses should be freely spent
I'm behalf Of the cause OF Righteousness.
In this presidential election we confront
n danger graver than any that has men.
nced the country from It's birth, save at
the time OF the election or 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 demagogues.
because we have announced that we do not
wish 20 pay our just debts, because we have
announced that we do not wish 10 enforce
our laws. and are willing TO count the ma
tlonal honor as nothing In the balancA
against successful trickcry or else wa
stand prouder than ever OF our citizenship
IN that great republic whose boast "a hns
been that at last this nation, alonN OF AL
nations through the ages. has solved the
problem OF preserving orderly liberty, OF
standing stoutly for the rights or the In
dividual. while yet being careful 10 allow
no man 10 be wronged. 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. N we are true TO our
selves; but we shall deserve all the m'sfor-
tune that win surely overtake us n we
surrender ourselves into the control az
tho base pandercr 20 dishonesty and die
order.
Campaign ARalnIt Morality.
Cur foes are waging n campaign which
In at bottom waged primarily against
morality and ability They hate the men
who pay their debts and obey the laws, eN
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 a cry
because they hope Herewith for the mo-
mcnt TO misleed some honest man and 20
bride some dishonest men, but they really
care little for any particular form OF policy
as regards the currency. At bottom what
they most dcslrc Is 20 strike down the men,
who, by virtue OF leadership I'm any walk
OF life. whether II be In, business or the
ology. or law or literature. or science, tend
by their efforts 20 raise the whole commu
nifty upwnrd. 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 mon
OF ability by those unworthy men who
care more 20 see their brethren fail than
themselves TO win success by earning and
deserving IL. Mr.. Bryan and his followers
rail at every form OF enterprise and thrift
and at all the countless manifestations
OF intelligence and OF organized effort