Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-04


On page 295, Of the September, 1896,
Review Of Reviews" Theodore Roose-
| welt made the following statement:
THE MEN WHO OBJECT TO WHAT
THEY STYLE GOVERNMENT BY
INJUNCTION are, as regards to essen
tial principles of government, in hearty
sympathy WITH their REMOTE AN
lCESIORS WHO LIVED IN CAVES,
fought ONE ANOTHER WITH
iSTONE HEADED AXES. AND ATE
THE MAMMOTH AND WOODY
RHINOCERoS. They are interesting
as representing a geological survival,
but THEY ARE DANGEROUS when
lever there is the least chance of their
| making the principles Of this ages
| buried past living factors in our pres
! ent life. THEY ARE NOT IN SYM
PATTY WITH MEN OF GOOD MINDS
AND SOUND CIVIL MORALITY"
In the Century Magazine Tor Febru-
! airy, 1883. an article appeared from the
| pen of Col. Roosevelt, entitled Ranch
| Life in the Far West On page SOP ap-
pears the following:
When drunk on the villainous whis-
key of the frontier towns, they (the
| cowboys and rough riders), cut mad
| antics, riding their horses into the
saloons. firing their pistols right and
left, from ooisterous light-heartedness
rather than from n viciousness, and
ihdulging too often in deadly shooting
ARRAYS, brought on either by accidental
contact OF the moment or on account
of some lo~ng-standing grudge, or per-
haps because of bad blood between the
ranches or localities.
BUT THEY ARE MUCH BETTER
FELLOWS AND PLEASANTER COM
PANIONS THAN THE SMALL FARM
ERS; NOR ARE THE MECHANICS OF
In THE SAME BREATH WITH
iHEM."
In 1898, G. P. Putnam's Sons issued
from their press a book by Mr.. Roose-
welt entitled American Ideals, and
Other Essays" In this book Mr.. Roose-
welt takes occasion to discuss at length
several American problems, social and
political. In his essay on THE Manly
Virtues and Practical Politics." writ
ten in 1897, he says:
cat best the inhabitants of a colony
are in a cramped and unnatural state.
at worst, the establishment of a colony
prevents any healthy popular growth.
At present the only hope for a colony
that wishes to attain full moral and
mental growth, is to become an indie
pendent state. A colony is in a false
position. But ii the colony is in a re-
gion where the colonizing has TO do its
work by means OF other inferior races,
its condition is much worse. From the
standpoint of the race, little or nothing
has been gained oy the English conquest
ofJamaica. Jamaica has been merely
turned into a negro island, with a fu-
ture much like that Of San Domingo.
British Guiana, however, we'll admins
tered, is nothing but a colony where a
few hundred or a few thousand white
men hold the superior positions, while
the bulk OF the population is composed
of Indians, Negroes and Asiatics."
In his speech at Saginaw, Michigan,
on September 7, Col. Roosevelt said:
THE ISSUE OF THE CAMPAIGN
Is CONTAINED IN THAT PLACARD:
LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE
"Old man we'll enough, is old man
good enough, and it is the best to let
him alone"
On the third day Of last April, Presi-
dent David Star Jordan, of Leland Stan
ford University. said in an interview,
when asked which view of the issue of
imperialism, McKinley's or Bryan's, was
gaining most among the people:
Let me quote you Roosevelt on that.
He said to me last week:
Jordan, l WISH TO GOD WE
WERE OFF THE PHILIPPINES and
had them off our hands, and many other
Republicans are thinking the same
Il am free to quote Roosevelt, because
l consider him in many respects pne of
the greatest men in the Republican
party"
How do you like Mckinley" was
asked President Jordan.
Let me quote you Roosevelt again.
was his reply. "He said to me: Nc
Kinley HAS ABOUT As MUCH BACK
BONE AS a TOY CHOCOLATE MAN
THAT YOU CAN SEE ON THE CON-
PETITIONERS STAND. HE IS a TER
RIBLE DISAPPOINTMENT"