The Penn's Grove record., 1900-10-05
RoosEvELTs OPINIONS OF

ROOSEVELT"6 OPINIONS OF
OTHERS.
Job said, "Oh that Mine AdYersary
Had Written q Book"
The writing and opinions of a candi.
date-especially n on the Presiden:
tial ticket-are always of interest to
voters. Gov. Theodore Roosevelt has
been a prolific writer Of books and
magazine articles and his opinions on
the political opinions and actions Of
others are interesting.
He wrote a life Of the noted U. s.
Senator Thomas H. Benton. Of Mis-
souri,, President Jackson's great cham
pion. In that book on page 290 to 900
will be found his opinion Of the Adolf
wtionists who first nominated a candi-
date for President, Gen. Birney. and
polled go, 900 votes. in1S44 when James
K. Polk vas elected President. Roose-
velt states that the Abolitions-Liber-
ty Party-were responsible for the de.
feat of Henry Clay. and says:
PRoHIBITIoNIsTs NO BETTER THAN
LIQUOR SALOON KEEPERS.
1.-THE Liberty party, in running Birney, sim
ply committed a political crime. evil in almost
all it's consequences; they in no sense paved
the way for the Republican party, or helped
forward the a~nti-slayery cause, or hurt the ex.
listing organizations. \ \ = They bore con-
siderable resemblance-except that, after all,
they really did have a principle to contend for
to the POLITICAL PROHIBTTIoNIsTs OF the pre-
sent day, who go into the third party organiza-
tions, and are, not even excepting the saloon
keepers themselves, the MOST EFFICIENT ALLIES
on whom incompetence and THE LIQUOR TRAF-
FIG CAN COUNT
QUAKER NO BETTER THAN A DUEL
LIST.
On page 81 of the same book, after
condemning 1.-THE professional aboli-
tionists," like Wendell Phillips, VIM.
Lloyd Garrison and Lovejoy, he I'M
corks his vial of condemnation on the
peace loving Quaker as follows:
.sBut after all, this rufiianism was really not a
whit worse in its effects on the national charac-
ter than was the case with certain Of the univ
ersal peace and non.resistance' developments
in the northeastern states in fact. it twas more
healthy. A class of professional non-combat-
ants is as hurtful to the real, healthy growth of
a nation as is a class of tire-eaters; for weak
ness or folly is nationally as bad as a vice, or
worse; and in the long run A QUAKER MAY BID
QUITE AS UNDESIRABLE ACITIzEN AS A DUEL
IsT."
DIssIPATED COWBOYS BETTER THAN
FARMERS.
In Mr.. Roosevelts ''Ranch Life and
Hunting Trail" which presents a pas
sage which is a revelation of the mans
way of thinking and the character Of
the associates he likes best. Speaking
of the cowboys on page 9 and 10 of that
book he says:
Peril and hardships and years of toll, brok-
en- by weeks of brutal dissipation, draw hag-
gard lines across their eager faces. but never
their reckless eyes nor break their bearing
of self-confidence. = 4 4 When drunk on
the villainous whiskey of the frontier towns
they cut mad antics, riding their horses into
the saloons, firing their pistols right and left,
from boisterous lightheartedness rather than
from v~lci0usness, and indulging too often in
deadly shooting ARRAYS brought on either by
the accidental contact OF the moment, or on
account of some longStanding grudge, or per-
haps because of bad blood between the ranches
or localities. THE ARE MUCH BETTER ELLoW
AND P~LEASANTEk COMPANIONS THAN MAL
RME OR AGRICULTURAL ~LABORERs, NOE
ARE H MECHANICS AND woRKMEN OF A GREAT
CITY TO BE MENTIoNEDIN THE SAME BREATH"
This passage ought greatly to add to
the enthusiasm with which the honest,
peaceable, lawabiding, temperate, Cod
fearing and Christian meHsEand
working men Of the country will vote
the Republican ticket-may be!
ACOWBOY WORTH THREE VOLUNTEERS
During the Spanish wal Mr.. Roose-
welt wrote to the secretary Of war as
follows:
SANTIAGO, July Is, 1S9s-My Dear Mr.. Secre-
tary: L am writing with the knowledge and ap-
prevail of General Wheeler. We earnestly hope
that you will send most of the regulars, and at
any rate the cavalry division, including the
ROUGH RIDERS, wHo RI AS GOOD AS ANY
REGULARS AND THREE TIMES AS GOOD AS ANY
STATE TROOPS, to Porto Rico, There are 1900
effective men in this division. If those who
were left behind were joined to them we could
land at Porto Rico, in this cavalry division,
close to 1000 men, who would be worth, easily,
any 10000 National guards, armed with black
powder S~pringfields or other archaic weapons.
y 4 II Very Respectfully,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
All old volunteer soldiers and sons of
veterans will feel enthused-if not
by reading that slur that they or their
father, were worth to their country on
ly One-third as much as a ranting
knight of the bronco. of whom Mr..
Roosevelt was one.
Russell A. Alger Secretary of War,
in answering said, II suggest that you
make no inyidious comparisons. aThe
rough riders are no better than other
volunteers. They had an advantage in
their arms, for which they ought to De
very grateful"
HIS OPINION OF BRYAN.
In commenting on Watson and Bry-
an, in 1896, Mr.. Roosevelt said.
Watson represents the real thing,
while Bryan is more or less a sham and
a compromise In an interview pub
lished Oct. 2S, 1896. in the N. \. Jour
al he said:
"Bryan is sincere enough, but amounts to lit
tie individually. He is a man of slender men,
tai capacity. / am a student Of American life,
and know widely the American people. 1 speak
with the greatest soberness when / say that I
really believe the sentiment now animating a
large proportion of our people can only be sup
pressed, as the Commune in Paris was sup
pressed, by taking ten or a dozen OF their lead
ers out, standing ten or a dezen of them against
a wall, and shooting them dead! I believe it
Will come to that. These leaders are plotfinr a