Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-24
SOUND AND STRONG.
Clear and Cold Logic of Theodore
Roosevelt, of New York.
che Gothamite's Telling Shots at Bryan
Sophistry - Talks to the Amerl-
can College Men at Chi
cago Coliseum.

~ was hSap ob
She Chicago Coliseum Thursday night,
October Is, under the auspices of the
american College Republican league,
at which Theodore Roosevelt, of New
Fork, spoke for sound money. Hc said:
e'It is not merely schooigirls that have
aysterics; very vicious mob leaders nave
chem at times and so do well-meaning
Ecmagogues 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
N the country. The dominant note in
Mr.. Bryans utterances and in the cam
palgn waged in his behalf is the note OF
S,ysteria Messrs. Bryan, Altgeld, Till
rnnn, Debs. Coxey and the rest have not
She power to rival the deeds of Marat,
Barrere and Robespierre, but they are
striklngly like the leaders of the Terror
OF France in mental and moral attitude,
plus an added touch of the grotesque ris-
rng from the utter folly as well as the base
dishonesty of their trying to play such
a role In such country as ours. For Mr..
Bryan we can feel the contemptuous pity
always felt for the small man uneXpect-
@dly thrust into n big place. He does not
Aoolt well in a lions skin but that is chief
Iy the fault of those who put the skin on
him But in Mr.. Altgelds place we see
too clearly the jaws and hide OF the wolt
through the aeecy covering. Mr.. Ait
geld is q much more dangerous man than
Mr.. Bryan. He is much slyer, much more
antelligent, 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 bubbling eloquence, be-
cause he lacks intelligence and is intoXi-
Gated by hope of power; the other would
connive at wholesale murder and would
Justify 1t by elaborate and cunning sophfs-
cry 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 dishonor as 1t is scarcely bearable
TO think of.
All Glasses Are Interested.
'Tn one way ! am half inclined to regret
naling speech in this campaign in which
4 may seem to speak particularly 70 an5
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 a certain appro-
priateness in making special appeal TO
xnen who have been exceptionally favored
'Sny fortune in the matter of education, be-
cause in this, as in every other crisis or
che nations history. we have right to
demand the hest effort from those who
should be best able to make that effort.
With us in America the college man ac-
SIulres by virtue of his education not spe-
.ciaI privileges but special duties, and this
is as IL should be. Every man who has
been better able to get better mental train
ting 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 right to expect
that the men from our colleges will shed
their blood, without thought, for the
honor of their land. In my own college
he ht,ilI ic hot htiil in
.ory 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 seam.
What the college man should be ever
ready to do in times of malice, domestic or
foreign levy, he should also be ready to
do in these no less menacinE crises of peace
when the nations life is threatened by evils
as terrible as those of any war. Heart and
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
a danger graver than any that has men
.aced the country from its BIRTH save at
the time of the election of 1860 alone. on
exc 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 demagoCues.
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 trickery or else we
stand prouder than ever of our citizenship
FIN that great republic whose boast it has
been that at last this nation, alone of all
nations through the ages, has solved the
problem of preserving orderly liberty, of
standing stoutly for the rights of the In
dtvtdual, while vet being careful to allow
no man to be wronged, and of guarding
with Jealous care that national honor
which can be seriously hurt only by our
own folly or our own Nea. .kneSs. No other
nation can harm us, if we are true to our
selves; but we shall deserve all the m isfor-
tune that will surely overtake us IL we
surrender ourselves into the control of
the base panderer to dishonesty and dis
order.
Campaign Against Morality.
-'our foes are waging 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 a .sry
because they hope Herewith for the lno-
rnept to mislead some honest men and to
bribe some dishonest men, but they really
care little for any particular form of policy
as regards the currency. At bottom what
they most desire is to strike down the men,
VINO, by virtue of leadership in any walk
of life, whether 1t be in business or the
ology, or law or literature, or science, tend
oy their efforts to raise the whole commn-
nifty upward 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 and
deserving 1t. Mr.. Bryan and his followers
Tall 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
tacks business men as such. He attacks
ciergymhn as such