The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-14

b reference to his own effort to add to
that doctrine by making this nation
the policeman OF the western hemis-
, phere and the guarantor of the ge,-
, rich-quicll spectators of Europe OF
the debts, real or imaginary, con
tracted by these responsible Lat.
, In republics; when he says that the
voice OF the United States would
count for nothing in the Far East
II we had abandoned the Philippines"
he exhibits a degree of ignorance of
the standing Of this republic in the
past, even before the Rough Riders
were ever heard of, which Is unpar,
donable: he Is. even les happy when
he refers TO the sending Of American
| warships to Birut when an effort had
been made to assassinate an Amerl.
can official" for all the rest of The
world knows that no such effort was
| made. If Mr. Roosevelt does not.
/ These things give an idea OF the
| speciousness which permeates the en-
| tire document. In his criticism of
| the attitude of he Democracy in ac-
| cepting the establishment Of the
| gold standard as an accomplished
fact. he seeks to make 1t appear that
the Republicans were the original
md only gold standard men And
we. this is the same Roosevelt who, |
in a magazine article written at that /
time. hurled severe criticism al the
gold men, saying;
Some of the antifree silver men.
the extreme gold men, are as unreas-
enable in their fanaticism as any rep
resentatives of the Rocky mountain
mine owners"
The gold men were unreasonable
in their fanatieism" then: bur now
this man who was then their critic
seeks to take for himself and his
party such credit as there may be
.pr the establishment of Ehe gold :
standard. Some of them may deserve Ia
This distinction: but certainly 1t can t
lot be claimed for the man who call {
ID them unreasonable fanatics when /
he fight was on. /
One would think from The loud
ariff talk of the Republican candi-
late that he was an original and ney
er weakening stand-patter; and yet
nothing short of the insatiate desire J
20 obtain and hold pubic Office
could ever have weaned him from his
original Golden club affiliations. lie
low says the tariff has nothing TO do
With the creation and the mainte-
aance of trusts, whereas 1t has been
put short time since he was preach
ng tariff revision as n means 10 get
Il the trust evil. He talks for reei- !,
lrocity, yet he has been largely re-
iponsible, and his party wholly so. =
or the refusal of the senate % rati
y the reciprocity treaties negotiated
by Mr., McKinley's special commits I
sioner, He tells the farmer that he
has benefited as much from the tar
IN as the manufacturer, in the face
" the fact that it Is the Republican
arif law which enables the mann
-acturer to charge the American
armer twice, or three times as much
Tor the tools and machinery he needs
IN his farm as the purchaser in En-.
ope Is charged for .hc Same articles
Md he talks army and navy and pen.
lions with all the glee of a great war
ord!
He finds that the public service I'M.
Ter the administration of the Repub-
lean party has been characterized b.
honestly If he was anywhere near
Washington when he wrote that, re
had 20 hold his nose to keep out the
tench Of the graft that has blossom.
ID and bloomed and ripened to a state
II chronic rottenness under the pat
ronage of Republican grafters in
high places.-Atlanta Constitution.