Arizona republican., 1904-09-19

And now for the evidence that Mir. Roosevelt stands for foreign wars. The proof advanced by the democratic jour nals Is found in such utterances by the president as that in his Chicago speech | of 1902 when he spoke of the duty of this country to speak softly and carry a big sti9k." In another speech he said that "the peace which breeds timidity and sloth is a curse and not a bless | ing" In New England in 1898 he said: 'I have scant sympathy with that mock humanitarianism which would prevent the great, orderly. lb- erty-loving nations of the earth from doing their duty in the earths waste places because there must be some rough surgery at the outset" Tn these speeches he often entrusted the "strong man." the "just armed" and "the men with iron in their blood" with the weddings" who "babble of peace" and hesitate to use just. proper severity" And in his address before the Cuban dinner he spoke of the duty of the United States in main taining good order on both sides of the American continents.
 The republicans have lodged none of the utterances of their candidate. They stand by what he has said and glory | in 1t as evidence of courage and pa- triotism on the part of the president Even some of the so-called ''independ- ent" papers with democratic leanings declare that the democratic politicians are making a mistake in giving prom thence to MT. Roosevelt's forceful American utterances. The Washington Post, for example. warns the demo- crats that Grover Cleveland's warlike note to England in the Venezuela mat ter "did not tarnish his fame or impair his popularity" and the Baltimore News, another supporter of Parker, has this to say of the matter:
 ''Mr Roosevelt is neither a George III.. nor a rowdy, nor a fool, and to talk as though he were either | of these things is the very best way to produce, in the minds of the very men it is essential to influence in this campaign, the inn pression that the whole anti-RooseveIt campaign is a case of hysterical hue and cry.
 The New York Tribune, replying to the critics of the president. suggests that George Washington was ''big stick" advocate beyond MT. Roosevelt Certainly MT. Roosevelt has never said anything more warlike than this from the message of Washington in 179S:
 'The United States ought not to in dulge a persuasion that, contrary to the order of events, they will forever keep at a distance these painful ap- peals to arms in which the history of every nation abounds. There is a rank due to the United States among the nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid in- suit. we must be able to repel it; if we known that we are at all times ready for war"
 The New York Press also recalls some "big stick" presidents. It de- clares that the American people have never been afraid to elect man who is for keeping the flag at the masthead and for upholding the dignity and hon. or of the nation. Jackson was a big stick president. So was William Hen ry Harrison. So was Taylor and Lin coin and Cleveland. ''The American people never found any fault with the big stick principles of George Wash ington in the beginning of our mast heading of the flag" declares the Press; "of Madison with his defense of American rights before and during the
 war of 1872; of Jackson promising to hang those who def1ed the flag; of
 Polk and Taylor guarding the flag north and south of our boundary; of
 Lincoln fixing it aloft in this country
 forever; of Grant driving European in
 vaders out of Mexico; of Mckinley ex-
 polling the Spaniards from Cuba! The
 American people have never found
 fault with such big stick service to
 the country. They have honored it with overwhelming votes at the polls. They have never tolerated those who
 either tear down or sheer at the flag.
 They have wipped them out of public sight
 It is difficult to understand why the democrats take exception to the vigor- ous Americanism of President Roose- , velt Probably the best explanation of 1t is presented by the Chicago Chroni- cle which first declares that the Roose- welt spirit is the American spirit of the hour" and then says:
 There is nothing so sinful in the l eyes of senility and decrepitude as in- | itiative, vigor and nerve. People whose
 only virtue consists in what they have 2 not done are alarmed and indignant at | a positive character and a man of ac- finn Accnrdinplv fhe glow Mnrrns of