The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-08-07
WHEN WAS he SINCERE.

Addressing the people or Denlson,
a., on June Q, Mr. Roosevelt said:
~ think you will do me the justice
to say that I do not say what do not
mean. / never said anything Oft the
stump that I would not say on the
stump. so what l say you can take
as sincere.
In view OF these statements, Charles
q. Edwards of Washington submits
some interesting suggestions as to Mr.
Roosevelt's sincerity.
MIR. Edwards is anxious to know
whether Mr.. Roosevelt was a sincere
free trader when he was member OF
the New York Free Trade Clue In
the early sos, and when he said
that he would "Die for free trade. -
Mr.. Edwards Is also anxious to know
whether Mr.. Roosevelt was sincere
when be wrote his letter of resigna-
tion to Poultney Bigelow, secretary of
the club, which letter, according to
Mr.. Edwards, was written after Mr..
Roosevelt mad decided to go over to
Plat and the professional politicians
whom he was elected to fight and
against whom he had expressed great
antagonism. Mr.. Edwards is anxious
to know whether Mr.. Roosevelt is now
willing to repeat his free trade
speeches on the stump.
In 1909, DR.. Schurman gave as o
slogan for 1904, Roosevelt, reciprocity
and revision of the tariff. Mr..
Edwards is ANXIOUS to know that ii,
as generally supposed DR.. Schurman
then correctly summarized the Roose-
welt position ON the tariff as assumed
from the Roosevelt speeches IN New
England, is Mr.. Roosevelt now willing
to repeat those spee1hesY And if not,
why not?
Mr.. Edwards is anxious to know il
there is any truth in the widely pub
Used statement that the protective
tariff league people persuaded Mr..
Roosevelt to change his views when
they informed him, when he left Wash
ington on April /, that If he did not
cease to talk revision they would seek
to prevent his nomination.
Writing to the Review of Reviews
for September, 1896, Mr.. Roosevelt
said:
"The men who object to what they
style government by injunction are,
as regards the essential principles of
government, IN hearty sympathy with
their remote skln-clad ancestors who
lived in caves, fought one another
with stone headed axes, and ate the
mammoth and woolly rhlnoceros. They
are interesting az representing a geo.
logical survival. but they are Dan
gerous whenever there is the least
chance of their making..t the principles
OF this ages buried past living factors
In our present life.
"They are not in sympathy with
men OF good minds and sound civic
morality.
Mr.. Edwards is anxious to know
whether Mr.. Roosevelt Is willing to
repeat on the stump the things he
wrote for the Review of Reviews sew
raj years ago.
Mr.. Edwards is curious to know why
Mr.. Roosevelt did not repeat on his
recent stump tour what he said OF
the farmers. mechanics and working
men in his book entitled Ranch
Life and the Hunting Trail" In
that book, Mr.. Roosevelt said that
although the cowboys and the rough
riders might be ''broken by weeks OF
brutal dissipation, yet they are
LuuOA U0btOA tOAlOWb dAN RAO0puhsVA
than small farmers or
agricultural laborers, nor are the
mechanics and workmen of great
city to be mentioned in the same
breath.
Mr.. Edwards Is anxious to know now
rs q civil service rei0rmer Mr.. KoOse-
velt can Justify the appointment to
nigh office of such men as Payne and
Garrison; and he Is also curious to
know II Mr.. Roosevelt thinks II en-
tirely proper for the president, who
,very year must sign many bills affect
ng the railroads, to ride in private |
,ars at the expense of these same rail.
'Oads. a
And finally Mr.. Edwards reminds
Mr.. Roosevelt, III the language OF the
trenuous one, ''words are good when |
N ,ked up by deeds, ana only So"
1t will occur to great many people
hat Mr.. Edwards has built upa very |
interesting case and IL is not ut all
kelly Judging FROM what we have
lready observed of Mr.. Roosevelt's
curse, that he will 'make good any
number OF his well nigh |
lumberlvss words. --C0mmoner. :.