Milford chronicle., 1904-09-23
ANOTHER LIE NAILEDI
A Quotation From President. no..,,
shows His True FeeIIns

HIHnan
shows His True FEELING.
Numerous attempts are being mad,
Dy unscrupulous politicians in mlsouot
ing and misrepresenting PresIdon,
Roosevelt's sayings and writings 70 ~,
Jure him in the estimation of tba NO.
pie Of this country. The claim for ~
ample that he ever referred to tbe
farmers as the basest of mankind ia !
pure lie made out Of whole cloth poo.
pie In every walk OF life will he GLAD 70
read the following quotation from the
presidents volume, THE strenrors
Life" In the article on "Fellow FeeIinc
as Political Factor" published over
four years ago: u
NeVertheless the fact remains tbst
the only true solution of our nol,t,coI
and social problems lies in cultivatinr
everywhere the spirit of brotherhood
OF fellow feeling and understanding be'
tween man and man and the willing
ness TO treat man as a man which
are the essential factors in American
democracy as we still see il in tho
country districts.
The chief factor in producing sucb
sympathy is simply association ON a
plane of equality and for a common
object. Any healthy minded American
is bound to think well of his follow
Americans If he only gets To know
them The trouble is that he does not
know them. If the banker and the
farmer never meet or meet only in tho
most perfunctory business wav. If the
banking is not done by men whom the
farmer knows as his friends and asso-.
GATES, spirit of mistrust is almost
sure to spring up. If the merchant or
the manufactures, the lawyer or the
clerk never meets the mechanic or the
handicraftsman save on rare occasions
when the meeting may be of a hostile
Kind, each side feels that the other is
alien and naturally antagonistic. But
II any one individual of any grouD
were to be thrown into natural associ. !
alton with another group the difficult !
ties would be found to disapDear so |
far as he is concerned. Very possibly |
he would become the ardent champion !
of the other group.
Perhaps I may be pardoned for
quoting my own experience as an in.
stance in point Outside of college
boys and politicians my first intimate
associates were rahchmen, COW punch
ers and game hunters, and l speedily
became convinced that there were no
other men in the country who were
their equals. Then l was thrown with
and made up my mind that
It was the farmer upon whom the
foundations of the commonwealth real
y rested; that the farmer was the
good American. Then l
saw good deal of railroad men. and
lfter quite an intimate acquaintance
With them grew to feel that, especial
y in their higher ranks, they typifed
he very qualities OF courage, self re-
lance, self command, hardihOOd, ca
Dacity for work, power Of initiative
nd power of obedience which we like
most to associate with the American !
ame. Then l happened to have deal
ngs with certain carpenters unions
nd grew to have a great respect for !
he carpenter, for the mechanic type.
BY this time it dawned upon me that
hey were all pretty good fellows and
hat my championship of each set in Z
uccessiOn above all other sets had Z
prung largely from the fact that I \
-as very familiar with the set cham :
ioned and less familiar with the re-
lainder. In other words had grown I
Ito sympathy with, into understand :
lg of. group after group. with the ef- q
act that l invariably found that they
nd l had common purposes and
)mmon standpoint. We differed .
mong ourselves or agreed among our 3
lives not because we had different u
but because Of our ways
looking at life" o