The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
Ole @essenger.
ROOSEVELT ON MECHAN ICs,FARM-
ERS, AND QUAK ERS.

Frs, AND QUAK ERS.
Roosevelt Is rather a prolific author.
works. besides magazine articles not
yet gathered. In an article published
In 1888 in the New York Century he
described the cowboys as drunk on
viflainous whfskey." as pretty hard
cases generally, as riding their horses
into the saloons, firing their pistols
right and left. from boisterous light
heartedness rather than from any VI
ciousness, and indulging too often in
deadly shooting ARRAYS brought on
esther by accidental contact of the
moment or on account of some long
standing grudge. Or perhaps because Of
bad blood between the ranches or To-
caIities'
But the republican candidate had a
much better opinion of these turbulent,
Iawless. devilish fellows than he had Of
the farmers and mechanics. Read this
from the same article:
But they are much better fellows
and ~pleasanter companions than the
small farmers or agricultural laborers;
mol are the mechanics of a great city
TO be mentioned in the same breath
with them"
See what an estimate this blather-
skite and Rough Rider" placed upon
honest, Industrious. respectable me-
chanics and farmers. They were far
meaner and lower in his view than the
IrnnLan rOrudyiuh wh0
Roosevelt has also a very poor opin-
ion OF the quiet, sober. Industrious, in
Telligent Quakers-the Friends of our
country as they are now designated.
Tead this taken from his Life Of
-homas Hart Benton" a native Of
N-orth Carolina and a former student
- its university. Roosevelt. the
Rough Rider" writes of the Quakers
in this unfriendIy strain:
"a class OF professional non-combat-
ants is as hurtful to the real, healthy
growth OF a nation as is a class OF fire
eaters; for a weakness or folly is ma
tionally as bad as a vice or worse; and
in the long run a Quaker may be quite
aS undesirable a citizen as Is a duelist.
No man who is not willing to e arms
and fight for his rights can give a good
reason why he should be entitled to the
privilege OF living in a free communi-
ty."
You see that this aggressive blather-
skite is ready to deprive an excellent
class OF citizens of the right of free and
conscientious thought. He wishes to
deprive all such as do not favor wal Of
h right to live in a free country. Such
is Rooseveltism and 1t is from a re-
publican candidate.
Roosevelt IS as crazy in his war no
lions as is Rudyard Kipling who lost
his head over the war against the
Beers fighting for liberty and indie
pendence. The doctrines of peace have
no charm for his blow-hard. If a
Christian of any school or denomination
should conscientiously come to the
conclusion that the Prince of Peace
came to bring peace and good will to
the world and not famine and wal and
footing of cities, like tina of Pekin the
otler day, he is to be branded as an
outcast and enemy, not so good a Chris
tan as a "duelist," and by no means
so worthy a disciple of Jesus Christ.
the righteous as cowboy shooting and
crTsing and fighting, o. as Il hero of
Imaginary battles like the blooiless
Teddy Roosevelt is. The Baltimore Sun
discussing with it's accustomed ability
the Evangelism" of MS ungracious
and fippant Rough Rider" says this.
and it is too pertinent tc be passed by:
In Difference to this great apostle Of
VA and blood, would it no. he advis-
able to alter the New Testament and
substitute for peace on earth, good will
among men, as sung ny he angels, a
chorus OF hilarious cowboys, led in Il
deep bass voice by EovCrI;or Roosevelt,
singing the praises of 4 strenuous life"
full lof gunpowder and slaughter. In
anticipation of the approach of Chrict-
mas everybody snoui.1 set ready to
change the character of the celebra-
ton and give 1t a R~ooseveltian tone.
Ministers and church choirS shoul
apply early to the Governor for his re-
vised version of the angels hymn, or
rather for the Rough Rider war song
that is to take its place, that the
Christmas celebrations may be in COM
plete accord with the Mckinley prac-
tice and the Roosevelt doctrine of civil
ization and liberty"