Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-14
Democratic Charge Against
President Roosevelt that Is
Without Foundation.
SAFEST MAN IN COUNTRY
Three Years In the White House and at
No Time Has Anything Been Done that
Did Not Tend Toward Peace
with All the World.

When the bitter personal attacks on
| Theodore Roosevelt are analyzed. and
| when Democratic agitator is asked to
| define his opposition to the President,
the inevitable reply is that Roosevelt
is an unsafe man"
| Now. is he?
| What m kes an unsafe man? When
! is a man safe and when is he danger
| Gus? How are we to judge man---
| by what he has done or by what soma
one says he may do? Are we justified
in calling mau unsafe who has all
| his life been eminently safe? Is not a
man entitled to the reputation he makes
| for himself?
For three years Theodore Roosevelt
has had absolute power. as President OF
the United States, and yet during that
three years although called to the great
office suddenly. as the result of a hor-
rible murder he has never lost his head.
| He has never done a dangerous thing,
| he has at no time involved the country
| in difficulties either at home or abroad.
False Predictions.
! Immediately following the murder Of
! William Mckinley predictions were
| freely made in the Democratic press
the country in war Has he done so?
1t was also freely predicted that he
would break with the Republican MAJ
| jority in the House and the Senate, and
| that he would insist on having his own
way. disregarding the advice of the
| time-honored leaders of the party, Has
he done 50?
Does not every one know. on the con-
trary that the conditions Of peace be-
tween the United States and the rest
of the world were never more securely
anchored than to-day This has not
been because the President has not had
an opportunity to go to war, There
| have been half dozen such oppOrtunl-
| ties at the very least since he became
| President when. if he had been the un-
| safe man he was alleged to be- he might
easily have involved us in war with one
or more of the great powers Of Europe.
He has met every diplomatic emergenc"
with rough and ready diplomacy and ex-
| traordinary tact, which have won for the
| United States the respect of the civil
! lied world.
Record In Diplomacy.
Look over the record of the state De-
| partment under Theodore Roosevelt for
| the last three years and see how much
| has been accomplished to uphold the dig
nifty and the honor Of the United States.
| without at any time causing the slight
est apprehension of foreign war, 1t was
| during the present administration that
| special commission was appointed to adj
| just the disputed boundary between Alas
| ka and the Dominion of Canada. Some
| of the Canadian people and papers talked
| rather savagely. There was every OPP
portunity for a misstep on the part OF
| the United States A little too much
! buster, a little too pronounced brag,
failure in tact at the proper moment,
substitution of timdity for bravery, or
of ra shness for conservatism by Theo-
dore Roosevelt would have famed this
| feeling in Canada into a dangerous
| fame The Alaska boundary was an
inheritance from the Mckinley admin
istration, but it was safely settled un-
der Roosevelt, settled to the credit OF
the United States. settled without the
loss of an inch OF American territory,
and settled. too, without the destruction
of the friendly feeling between Great
Britain and the United States.
When Germany and England were at
the threats Of the little republic Of
Venezuela, an unsafe President might
easily have involved us in war with
those two countries, and timd Presi-
dent might easily have brought upon the
flag the shame OF the rest 'he world
Russia and. Japan have n at war.
The sentiment Of the pc , in this
country has been largel' n favor Of
Japan Yet John Hay, Il rise and dis
erect Secretary of State, appointed by
Mckinley and unhesitatingly retained
by Roosevelt. has so successfully direct
ed the course Of American diplomacy
that the United States to-day is as much
the friend OF Russia as it il of the little
fighting cock, Japan. The United States.
in fact. has dictated the diplomatic con-
duct Of hOstilities between Russia and
Japan This country has dominated thu
situation. aud yet st no time has there
been the slightest danger that we might
become embroiled with any foreign ma
ton.
Safe Every Day in the Year.
These are the actual results Of three
years Of the foreign policy Of Theodore
Roosevelt, the man who. when he en-
tered the White House as the result OF
murderous bullet. was by his political adj
yersaries pictured TO the other nations of
the world as braggart and a swar'--
bucklpr lie has been safe. always sAfe.
every day and every haer since ne has
been President Of tie United States. lie
has never lowered the American flag %
anybody he has never been forced 10
apologize aud he has conducted every
episode Of orr foreign policy, with tbs
advice Of John Hay. in such q way ~
10 preserve the honor Of the American
Republic and to gain the respect Of the
soyerefgus OF the world. There is not "A
king nor an emperor. nor president,