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.


| Theodore Roosevelt: arc analyzcl. and
when Il Democratic agitntor is asked to
define his opposition to the President.
the inevitable reply is that Roosevelt
is an unsafe man"
Now, is he!
What makes an unsafe man? Whe,,
is man safe and when is he danger.
Gus? How are we to Judge man.
by what he has done or by what some
one says he may do? Are we justine
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
the United States. aud yet during taNt
three years, although called to the great
office suddenly. as the result of bor-
rible murder, he has never lost his head.
lie has never done Il dangerous thing,
he has at no time involved the country
in difficulties either at home or abroad.
Falsc Predictions.
Immediately following the murder. of
! William Mckinley predictions were
freely made i'll 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
| jority in the House and the Senate. and
that he would insist on having his owh
way, dsrcgnrding the advice of the
time-honored leaders Of the party. Has
he done so?
| 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 We're never more securely
anchored than to-day? This hns not
been because the President has not had
an opportunity to go to war. There
! have been half dozen such opportuni-
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 emergency
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.
J Look over the record Of the State Ue
partmcnt under Theodore Roosevelt for
the last three years. and see how much
has been accomplished to uphold the dig
J 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 a
| special commission was appointed to ad.
! just the disputed boundary between Alas
| ka and the Dominion of Canada. Some
Of the Canadian people and papers talked
/ rather snvagey. There was every Op-
| portunity for msstep on the part of
| the United States. A little too much
buster, a little too pronounced brnR,
failure in tact at the proper moment, q
! substitution of timidity for bravery, or
| OF rashness for conservatism by Theo.
! dore Roosevelt would have famed the
feeling in Canada into dangerous
| flame. 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 a 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
ed the course of American diplomacy
that the United States to-day is as much
the friend Of Russia as it is OF the little
tighting-cock, Japan. The United States,
i'll fact. has dictated the diplomatic CON
duct Of hostlities 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 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 a
murdcrous bullet. was by his political I'D
vcrsarics pictured to the other nations OF
| the world as Draggart ana q 3Wash-
buckler. He has been safe, always safe.
every day and every hour, since he In 8
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. III such why as
to preserve the honor Of the American
Republic. and to gain the respect Of the
Sovereigns of the world. There is not q
king, nor an emperor, nor a president
nor potentate from Pckin to Timbuctoo
who does not know to-day that Thso.
| dore Roosevelt is of the best American
| type, honest. frank, courageous. sensi-
bic, and always safe for those who treat
him fairly.
Men of the Roosevelt type are upsafe
only to the dishonest, to the disturbere
of the peace Of nations, to the CRITTERS
at home and the grabbers abroad, to the
manipulators of markets and the wreck.
ers Of nations. To the honest men, "a
the people of the home and the freside
| to tile good king and to the good subject
the Roosevelt type is the aatest thing Y
l ai' this world.