The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16
Democratic Charge Against
President Roosevelt that Is
Without Foundation.
SAFEST HAN IN COUNTRY
Three Years in the White House and al
No Time Has Anything Been Done that
Did Not Tend Toward Peace
with All the World.

When the bitter personal attacks on
| Theodore Roosevelt; arc analyztsl. AMI
| when n Democratic agitator is asked 10
define his opposition to the President.
III" inevitable reply is that Roosevelt
is an unsafe man"
Now, is he!
What makes an unsafe man? Whe,
is a man safe and when is he danger.
Gus? How are we to judge man---
by what he has done or by what some
on" says he may do? Are we iustiiiel
IN calling a man unsafe who has all
his life been eminently safe? Is not
man entitled to the reputation he makes
for himself?
For three years Theodore Roosevelt
has had absolute power as President OF
he United States, aud yet during TINT
three years, although called to the great
office suddenly. rs the result OF hor-
llhlc murder, he has never lost his head.
lie has never done n dangerous thing.
lr has at no time involved the country
M difficulties, either at home or abroad.
False Predictions.
Immediately following the murder. of
William Mckinley predictions were
freely made in the Democratic press
that President Roosevelt would involve
the country in war. Has he done so?
1t was also freely predicted that he
would break with the Republican ma
jorty in the House and the Senate and
that he would insist on having his owh
way, disregardng the advice of tho
timc-honorel leaders OF the party Has
he done so?
Does not every one know. on the coz
trary, that the conditions of peace be-
tween the United States and the rest
of the world We're 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 opportilni-
ties at the very least since he becHms
President, when. il he had been the un-
safe man he was alleged 10 be, he might
easily have involved us in war with ono
or more of the great powers of Europe.
He has met every diplomatic emergency
with rough and ready diplomacy and ex-
traordinnry tact, which have won forsthe
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 ut 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
,,,t hnr Ia,
portnnity for a misstep on the part of
the United States. A little too much
buster, little too pronounced brng,
failure in tact at the proper moment q
substitution OF timidity for bravery, or
or raslmess for conservatism by Theo.
dore Roosevelt would have famed the
feeling in Canada into a dangerous
fame. The Alaska boundary was an
Inheritance from the Mckinley admin.
istration, but it was safely settled I'M
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 throats of the little republic OF
Venezuela, an unsafe President might
easily have involved us in war with
those two countries, and timid Presi-
dent might easily have brought upon the
flag the shame Of the rest of the world.
Russia and Japan have been at war.
The sentiment Of the people in this
country has been largely in favor Of
Japan. Yet John Hay, the wise and dis
Greet Secretary Of State appointed by
Mckinley and unhesitatingly retained
by Roosevelt. has so successfully direct
cd the course of American diplomacy
that the United States to-day is as much
the friend of Russia as it is Of the little
ighting-cock, Japan. The United States.
in fact. has dictated the diplomatic con-
duct Of hostilities between Russia and
Japan. This country has dominated the
situation and yet at no time has there
been the slightest danger that we might
become embroicd 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 MS the result of a
murderous bullet. was by his political I'D
vcrsarics pictured to the other nations OF
the world as a braggart and swasIl-
buckler. He has been safe, always safe,
every day and every hour, since he has
been President of the United States He
has never lowered the American flag to
anybody, lie has never been forced to
apologize and he has conducted every
episode of our foreign policy, with the
advice Of John Hay. in such way as
to preserve the honor of the American
Republic, and to gain the respect Of the
sovereigns OF the world. There is not a
king, nor an emperor, nor a president.
nor potentate from Pckin to 1imbuctoo
who does not know to-day that Theo-
dore Roosevelt is Of the best American
type, honest, frank, courageous. ssnsi-
BILE, and always safe for those who treat
him fairly.
Men of the Roosevelt type are unsnfs
only to the dishonest, to the disturbers
of the peace of nations, to the grnfters
at home and the grabbers abroad, to the
nunipulators of markets and the wreck
ers o. nations. To the honest. men. TO
the people OF the home and the firesids.
to the good king and to the good subject,
the Roosevelt type is the safest thRs q
al this world,