Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-07-09

"Die For Free Trade r"-Do You still
Believe In Government by Injunc-
tion.-Are "Dissipated Cowboys'
sim Preferred to Farmers and Me-
chanics by You.
think you will do me the justice
to say that | do not say what / do not
mean. | never said anything off the
stump that | would not say on the
stump. SO what | say now you can
take as incere.-President Roosevelt
at Denison, Ia, June 2.
Ho, no, Mr.. President, then you adj
NIT that your two months swing
around the circle was a stumping tour!
In view of your article, written in 1900
and published in the Youths Compan-
ion last November, on the duties and
responsibilities of the president of the
United States, in which you said there
are few harder tasks than that of fill
ing well and ably" this high office, do
you think it entirely proper for presi-
dent to leave his post for more than
two months at time to stump the
country for his own denomination and
reelection? Had you presidential
stumping tours in mind when you said
that the president should be held to q
strict accountability alike for what he
does and for what he leaves undone"
Were you q sincere free trader when
you were n member of the New York
Free Trade club In the early eighties
and when you said that you would
die for free trader If so, how do you
explain your letter of resignation to
the secretary, Mr.. Poultncy Bigelow,
written after you had decided to desert
the independents, who had elected you
TO the New York legislature, and when
you had decided to go over to the en-
envy, Platt and the professional poll
ticians," whom you were elected to
fight and against whom you expressed
great hatred? In this letter you said
1t was the ''only way" you could hope
for political promotion and that any
way II am Republican first, a free
trader afterward."
Are you now willing to repeat your
free trade speeches on the stump? You
are now playing the Republican? When
will the free trade performance begin?
When the dying scene?
One year ago DR.. Schurman, one OF
your good Republican friends, gave us
the campaign slogan for 1904 of the
"three R's-Roosevelt reciprocity and
revision" of the tariff. If, as generally
supposed, DR. Schurman then correct
ly summarized your position on the
tariff, MS gathered from your New Eng
land speeches, are you willing to repeat
those speeches now? If not, why not?
Is there any truth in the widely pub
lished statements that the protective
tariff league people changed" your
views when they Informed you, just
before you left Washington on April |,
revision they would prevent your NOM
nation?
Are you now willing, Mr.. President,
to shy on the stump what you said OF
union workmen in the Review of Re
views of September, 1896? You then
they style government by injunction
are, as regards the essential principles
of government, in hearty sympathy
with their remote skin clad ancestors,
who lived in caves, fought one another
with stone headed axes and ate the
mammoth and woolly rhinoceros. They
are interesting rs representing geo
logical survival, but they are danger
Gus whenever there Is the least chance
of their making the principles of this
ages-buricd past living factors in our
present life. They are not In sympathy
with men of good minds and sound
civic morality"
Why were you not repeating ON the
recent stamping tour what you say OF
the farmers In your Ranch Life and
Hunting TrailY" You there say that,
although the cowboys and rough riders
might be "brokcn by weeks of brutal
dissipation" yet they are much better
fellows and pleasantcr companions
than small farmers or agricultural la
borers. Nor are the mechanics and
toned in the same breath"
If you will show your sincerity by
repeating on the stump what you have
said of free trade, of union working
men and farmers we will not ask you
about your sincerity rs civil service
reformer when you appointed Payne
and Clarkson to high offices, or II you
think 1t entirely proper for the presi-
dent. who every year must sign many
bills affecting the railroads, to ride in
private cars at the expense OF these
same railroads.
"Woris are good when backed by
deeds, and only SO" Mr., President. as
you said in one of pour speeches of last
July. BYRON w. HOLT.
DR.. Allison Puts II to sleep.