, 1899-09-28

Gov. Roosevelt of New York open
ed the campaign in Ohio by delivering
an address AT Akron on the 23rd. he
was greeted by n tremendous crowd
Roosevelt said he had come to Ak
ron TO speak because the contest IN
Ohio this year was n national contest,
made so by the stress laid upon nation
al questions by the Democratic plat
form.
Governor Roosevelt spoke in part as
follows:
ut is impossible to avoid the conyic-
ton tina their leaders know that his
is true. but are willing to plunge the
country into any disaster, provided
only They can persuade n sufficient
number of dupes to put them where
they can crafty their greed for olive
their thirst for power. | should not
use such language in an ordinary point
zeal contest. | use ii now as | should
have used 1t had | been alive during
the years of the civil war. The men
whom we are now fighting champion
II cause which. in its essentials, is the
same us that championed by the Dough
Face and the COpperhend thirty-seven
wears ago. They vote the war a fail
ure now MS they voted it n failure then.
They mouth with hypOcritical anxiety
about n free press now as they did
then. They attack the nations credit
and financial honesty now as they did
then: and exactly as in o days. when
they struck at m evil, they struck at 1t
insinccrely. so they strike insinccrely
at any real abuse of the present time,
offering no remedy, and standing ready
to hamper those who would really of
fer one: and when they propose a rem
edy Ii Is n measure which would ag-
grnvntr ten times whatever of evil act
unlly exists.
"Our opponents donouncc trusts. But
they propose not n remedy that
would not make the situation ten times
worse tina at its worst il now is. |
have read through carefully the
speeches Of Mr.. Bryan and of his fel-
lows to IND out what they propose to
do. | have found plenty of vague de
nunciation. | have not found so
much ms an attempt to formulate
n national policy of relief. In the Dem
ocratic platform in Ohio Just two meas
ures of relief are proposed: The first,
that you would change the tnrif be
cause 1t favOrs trusts, II the second.
that o should cOin silver in the ratio
of Ii to l without regard to the action
of any C,hCr nation.
'"Thcy pretend that the tariff favOrs
trusts. They know well that the great
est trusts in this country. the Stand
ard Oil and the Sugar trusts, are ut
tcrly unaffected by the tariff. They
know well that the trust with %hich
there is the most widespread and deep
est dissatisfaction. the Beef trust, is
utterly unaffected by the tariff, and in
my w state. one of the largest trusts,
the Ice trust (Which is said to have ms
its most prominent member and pro-
motcr that ardent antitrust champion
and advocate of Mr.. Bryan, Richard
Croker Is also wholly unaffected by
the tariff. Six years 9 You We're I'M
Ter the kind of tariff to which they now
ask you To return. And you were suf-
fering from the threat of free cOinage
the threat which they now revive.
Are the people of his country so short
sighted that they forget the miseries
of six years ago. DC they forget the
bread riots, the poverty. the squalid
want. even of those able and anxious
to work? Surely the country has had
enough of tariff tinkerinC by the OPP
ponents of II protective tariff. The sec
ond great remedy they propose for
trusts is the free coinage of silver mt
1G to THE coinage of n 4O-ccnt dol
lar. They actually propose TO the peo-
pie that, If the trust deprive certain
men of part of their earnings, or
throw II certain body of men out of
employment, this shall he remedied
by declaring that the men who still
have employment snail he paid As cents
on the dollar for the work they do.
I'm the Philippines we are ut open
war with nm enemy who must be put
down. II is absolutely impossible to
SAVE Il honor except through victory.
and it is equally impossible to win
peace. to restore order in the islands.
or to prepare the way for ~sclf-gOyern-
ment there, save through victory. PEG
pie tell you that the F%ilipinOs are fight
ing for independence. This is exactly
what the CopperlcadS of 1861 said of
the ConfcdcratcS. Here in Ohio Val
buckingham ran on the issue that the
war was II failure. II hat the in
dependence of the southern states
should he acknowledged. The feeble
Nnllandinghams of to-day lake the
same position, and If Ohio is true To
the great memories of her past. she will
give the same answer now that she
gave then. No man can hesitate in
this struggle and cver afterwards call
himself n true American and true pa
triot. He must stand by the flag. He
must uphold the ono and the interest
of the nation, and the only way in
which he can stand by the one, and
uphold the other. is to ovcrwhelm the
party that assails both.
Two facts must be emphasized.
First, that out of the present situation
the only honorable and humane way is
to put down armed resistance in the
Philippines and to establish II govern
ment of orderly justice; and. III the
second plnce, that this situation inev-
lthblS arose out of the war: ana could
not have been avoided save by shame.
ful conduct on our part. You will
meet short-sighted people who say that
Dewey. after sinking the Spanish fleet.
should have sailed away from Manila
bay. OF course. such conduct was i'm.
possible. II Is not too much to say that
such conduct would have been in
thmous, Either the islands would have
been left 10 their own fate had such n
course been followed. in which ease n
series of bloody massacre would have
taken place, and the wal between the
Spaninrds and the Filiplnos would
have dragged along its wrctchcd length
until some OutSiIp lutprfnU,u.n t,,I.