Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-06-26

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June 3s.-Just : few words with
President Roosevelt. u he backing
mp his words with leedsf he said
in . speech In Denison, Iowa. on
June 1877 think you will do me
the justice to ray that lido not my
what I do not mean. never said
anything on the stump that I wonld
not Say OF the stump. So what I
say now you can take % sincere"
So, you admit, Mr.. President, that
your two months swing around the
circle was stamping tour pure and
simple. Now. then, in view of your
article, written in 1900 and published
in the Youths Companion last
November, on the duties and re-
sponsipilities Of the President of, the
United States, in which you said
''there are few harder tasks than fill
ing we'll and ably this high Office,
do YOU think it entirely proper for
the President to leave his post for
more than two months at q time to
stump the country for his own
nomination and election2 Had you
presidential stumping tours in mind
when you said at that time "the
President should be held to a strict
| accountability alike for what he does
and for what he leaves undoner"
Were you sincere free trader when
you were q member OF the New Y ork
Free Trade Club in the early sos
and when you said you would ode
for free trade"1 If go, how do you
explain your letter of resignation to
the Secretary, Mr. 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 60 over to the
enemy. Plat and the ''professional
politicians. whom you are elected to
fight and againt whom you express ed
great hatred Was it not purely and
simply to promote your political
ambitions7 Are you willing now to
repeat your free trade speeches on the
stump what you say off of 1t. You
say you are always willing to say on
the stump what you say off of it.
You are now playing the republican:
when will the free trade performance
begin?
One year ago DR.. Sohurman, 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.. Schurmau
then correctly summarized your
position on the tariff as gathered from
your New England speeches, are you
willing to repeat those speeches nowf
If not, Why mott
1s there is any truth in the widely
published statements that the Pro.
tective Tariff League people
''changed' your views when they
informed you. just before You, left
Washington on April /, that If: you
did moi cease to talk revision they
would prevent your nomination.
Are you now willing, MI. Presi
dent, to say on the stump what you
said Of union workingmen in the
Review Of Reviews of September,
1862 You then said: 1.-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
skin-ol ancestors who live in caves,
fought one another with stone headed
axes, and ate the mammoth and wool.
ly rhinoceros. They are interesting
as representing q geological survival,
but they are dangerous when ever
there is the least chance of thei,
making the principles of this ages
buried past living factors in on,
present life.''
They are not in sympathy with
men Of good mind and sound civic
morality Why were you not re-
peating on your recent stumping tou,
what you said Of the farmers and
mechanics and workmen in you,
"Ranch Life and Hunting Trail. -
You there said that although the
cowboys and rough riders might be
"broken by weeks of. brutal dissi.
petion,'' yet They are much bette,
fellows and pleasanter companions
than small farmers or agricultural
lsborers; nor are the mechanics and
workmen Of = great city to be men.
toned in the same BREATH"
If you will show your sincerity BY
repeating on the stump what you
havA aai6 If froa krada "a 49,.