Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-07-10
"WIGGLE- WAGGLE."
THAT'S WHAT SIMON OF ORE
CON SAYS 1T is.

CON SAYS 1T is.
Roosevelt Wearing a Union Badge Spoke
From a Non Union Platform in Portland
The Labor Organizations Were Mute With
Dismay-The "Oresonian" Says It is Not
His Business to Prescribe Social Ethics for
Jews and Negroes. That He is Neither
NegrophiIe Nor Jew.Lover.
ED. STANDARD:
Hold-ups to the right OF us; hold.ups
to the left of us; only two caught, and
they were policemen paid to watch for
others. Wonder if the other robbers
are not members of the force? Or
has the Washington moral wave swept
all your refuse down here?
Roosevelt spoke from nOn-union
stand in Portland although the union
men offered to build another platform
for nothing, and telegraphed to Teddy
before he came here. He was their
Teddy then, and belonged to the union
then, but they lined the Park streets,
in quiet, when he came. The little
school girls were stationed with flags
to wave, and the Mitchell and Fulton
followers did fairly we'll, in spots, but
they were not numerous enough in
Portland to cover the soreness.
When boasting that they would ap.
peal to Roosevelt, the union had for
gotten that Schley had appealed to
Roosevelt. When they boasted that
the President of the United States
wore the Union badge, they forget
that Senator Simon referred to the
same President and his written pledge.
When other unions accuse him of be-
ing a traitor to the branch of organ.
lied labor to which he belongs; they
forget that Roosevelt was gold Re-
publican and that he has turned down
the gold Republicans in Oregon and
given the Offices to the silver Republi-
cans.
"The President Is Consistent" is
the beading Of an editorial in the
Oregonian of June 2?d; from it few
quotations will disclose the anin,us
and intent of the whole:
President Roosevelt has not exag-
gerated the patriotic quality of the Amer
ican Jew" at is not President Roose.
velt's business to create an atmosphere
of social equality for Jews and gentiles,
pair the other truth that if he wishes to
appoint negroes to important offices he
would better appoint them in Boston
and Philadelphia than in Charleston
and New Orleans. What would Boston
say to negro Postmaster, or PhiladeI-
phia to a negro Collector Of the Port? ?"
a negrophile nor a negrophobist, nei-
ther Jew-lover nor Jew-baiter."
Does not madam protest too much?
What has given the impression that
Roosevelt is a Jew-baiter? Senator
Simon did not use that word. Why
should Scott or Roosevelt compare the
Jew with the negro? Why is it ne.
cessary for Republican editors to apol.
ogise for the attitude of the President
of the United States toward the He
brew people? The proper heading for
the editorial would have been "The
Jew; the negro was unnecessarily in
jected into q foreign matter. Do
chamber. maids refuse to make beds
for Jews? Does any section of the
country demand separate cars for He
brews? What other President has
ever disclaimed hostility to the Jews?
Has any one objected to Roosevelt en-
tertaining Jew at dinner?
Great Scott! what is the matter with
you? The best advertisers in your
paper are Jews. If you are trying to
cater to them, you have made sorry
mess of it. If you are smoothing over
the affront to Senator Simon, you
have yoked up strange company.
As evidence that you are not candid
when referring to "the constitutional
right to hold public Office" and that it
|, should not be denied to the negro be-
cause of race, creed, color or previous
condition of servitude," you are advo-
eating the disfranchisement OF the ne
gro. And even in this editorial you
reprimand the President for appoint
ing sable Collector OF Customs at
Charleston, by asking What would
Philadelphia say to q negro Collector
OF that port?"
The Oregomian is a great paper; it
has offered what it conceived the best
explanation for Roosevelt's apparent
Jew-baiting. The President promised
to explain to the leaders OF the party
when he came to Oregon, but the edi.
toriai' presumably inspired, being from
party leader, is the only ray of light
shed on the novel question that has
seemed applicable to the Oregon d.
lemma.
Is this striking straight from the
shoulder Teddy? When you got up
IN the night to hear the news of the
prlze-hght in San Francisco you did it
10 snow your interest in an open fight,
wasn't it? E.,n
"A NE" BRUNSWICK clergyman says
there are no female angels, and the
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