The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-08
ISSUES OF CAMPAIGN
PURELY NATIONAL
Gov. Roosevelt's Appeal TO the Pa
triotism and Common Sense of
Voters of the Country.


LANSING. Mich. Sept Escorted by
the Commercial Travellers Club. of this
city, Gov. Roosevelt on arrival here.
drove TO a large tent which had been
erected two blocks from the station, and
spoke to an enthusiastic audience. At
2 o'clock the party left for Jackson. In
his speech under the tent Gov. Roosevelt
said:
''You men and women of the capital
city of this great state. i am glad to
have chance OF being with you and OF
having gone through your state today. l
have not the time 10 discuss all the issues
as wo I'D lie to discuss them with YOU
but | want to dwell upon one or two
issue which thew themseiyes have s'a raised
in this campaign, and which they said
was paramount four years ago has ceased
to be paramount issue now-that the
issue OF, having a dollar worth 100 cents
Is no longer an issue Of the first rank
The one indispensable requisite TO
financial and industrial prosperity Is a
a fashion with good many features OF
our industrial system dislocated, but we
cannot get along IL we do not have an
is matter OF the very FIRST Importance
to the nation. The currency question
is question that goes right to the root
OF our national weil-heing.. and the only
possible excuse for disturbing the cur
rency would be the belief that II Is an
issue OF the first Importance. Either it
~ the greatest issue that can be raised,
est wrong TO their feliow-citizens II they
do not believe that II Is paramount is
sue. then let them abandon It entirely
to the well-being Of every home in the
land. and that goes to upholding the ma
tional honor. Unless our opponents were
willing that the issue should be regarded
as Important now as II was four years
ago. then they did a foul wrong to their
fellow countrymen by raising it at ali.
Issues Are National.
ANOTHER thing. next November all Of
u.s. all over the country. vote as Ameri-
gan. or OF Maine, or OF California. hut
as Americans of the entire country. You
cannot have an issue raised which shall
and not In another. You cannot COO a'i iiks
a sucking dove about II east OF the Miss
issfprf river and roar like a lion about
ren west !. q the Mississippi river Our cur
Try. There Is no local option about f.
II you have got good currency IL will
be a good currency In all parts OF the
IF our opponents believe in free silver
70 the extent OF specifically reasserting
i IN their platform at Kansas city. then
certify, In not insisting upon II with equal
piainness on every platform IN the land.
You cannot say that free silver is not an
try to say that II Is just as much an
issue az ever In the farther West.
IT IL important that we should have
r rnreiligence and common sense in our
who're important that we should have sim
certify, an what can y,u say either OF
the intelligence or the sincerity OF the
party that four years ago said that II
the gold standard was not abolished We
would nave four years OF hard times; or
OF the. sincerity OF that party which says.
now that II is for free silver strong so
far as the free silver men are affected.
but not strong enough to hurt the feel
ings o. the men who have a preference
Qualities That Make Men.
II see in the audience man after man
who wears the button that shows that
In the times that tried mems souls thew
proved their truth by their endeavors.
Union and for the cause OF freedom. Those
men know that you need not just one or
two qualities. but many. to make good
soldier. In the first place you have to
nave patriotism. That Is not enough
don't care how patriotic a man Is, IL he
mas tendency 70 run away he Is no
good. a good soldier has to have cour-
age. and that is not enough. I don't
care how patriotic and brave ne Ia. II
ne thinks he knows II all and IL not
willing 70 obey orders, his usefulness as
In civil life. In the first place, you have
got to have honesty; honesty IN matters
OF finance, honesty In the administration
OF the national. state and municipal gov.
ernmentr. Honesty is the first requisite.
though II IL not enough You have got
TO have courage with honesty and that
Ii not enough. do not care how honest
and brave man r.. IL he Is a natural
born foolAhe Is worth nothing on earth.
You have got to have common sense
"A government Is such a difficult thing
especially In regaSd to It's financial prin-
ciples. that courage, honesty and COM
mon sense enter into every problem from
the currency to the Philippines.
More Than Party Fight.
''in this campaign OF 1900 we are max
ing campaign like that OF 1864 We ara
fighting on moro than n party issue and
we think we have the right To appeal TO
all men. North, South, East and West.
whether In the past they have been Re-
publicans or have belonged to the Demo
cracy, that they should vote for hard
money and expansion; whatever may
have been their affiliations In the past,
whatever may may have been their views
on minor governmental matters that
they should stand with US and work and
speak for the reelection of the man who
has the good fortune TO embodv in his
policy the principles Of sound adninistra-
tion and honesty. who has induced proc
perity az home and upheld the flag
abroad. President Mckinley
Al jackson, Gov. Roosevelt met a ispxa
number. % citizens ia the public square
where stand had been erected and
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