The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-15
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 The Sacramento Bee. though late convert to Republlcanism. was one of Rooseveit's most enthusiastic support CTS. Like all new converts 1t essayed to prove its seal by the intensity of It's labors in the cause. Nevertheless. it Is not as well pleased with the Presidential message as 1t doubtless expected to be. Especially does 1t buck at that portion of the message In which the President virtually takes the position that the United States must act as the mentor or guardian Of all other nations, and in order to main tain that attitude 1t must have big army and navy and be at all times prepared to use them. The Bee quotes his language and declares that f'these are not the doctrines of the Deciara- tion of Independence" but that they are the ideas promulgated by the Ger man Emperor and those of his kind It says that If any man had uttered such sentiments on the floor of the Continental Congress he would have been hissed into silence" Then it uses this plain language:
 Surely. those are examples to be shunned, not deeds of light to be fol- lowed by the American people. They are the acts of autocracy and usurpa- tion. But .The Bee has always claim ed that, intensely American as Roose- welt Is. he is also intensely autocratic. There is not. there never has been. anything truly democratic about him. And. intensely American as he is in many ways. this doctrine that the great American nation must become a schooimaster abroad. armed with a big stick; that 1t must decide which nation is deserving of independence and which is not; that 1t must lay down codes of morality and laws of conduct for the nations of this Vest ern Hemisphere, rewarding them with renewed assurances of its distinguish ed consideration If they follow them implicitly, and threatening them with a big navy If they do not; that 1t must make itself a collecting agency for the international Shylocks who have bled the South American Republics for decades--this doctrine is intensely repugnant to every American who be- lieves in the Americanism preached in the Declaration of Independence and practiced by Jefferson and Lincoln.
 The Bee should be able to see that this country has advanced a long way since Jefferson's day. Then 1t was a republic, but now 1t is a Nation, with very big N. and Roosevelt is the faithful expositor of that idea of gov ernment. If he could be allowed his own way in all things this would soon be a Big Stick Nation, and we would be continually in trouble with other powers. The Bee should not complain at what is partly its own work. It labored as hard to make Roosevelt President as did any other newspaper. and shouldn't go back on its own work so early in the game. If it did not know before the election just what manner of man 1t was supporting it lacked the Knowledge and perception that others possessed. In the words the galled jade vince" and let The Bee take its physic. That it takes it with an exceedingly bad grace is evil dent, not only from what we have above quoted. but from this other quotation, which we give as suitable wind-up to what has gone before:
 What right under the heavens what shadow of authority granted by any true doctrine of vital American ism-has this Nation to threaten 1t will interfere with the independence of any country which does not pay it's debts to suit the Rooseveltian ideas. or does not pay them at all. How man fully consistent we are in threatening little kindergarten nations in this clustering way when We have before us the record of how the United StateS swindled its own soldiers out of 50 per cent of the SIS month they re- ceived to be shot at. and how one or two of the sovereign States of the Union declared themselves again sol vent by repudiating what they owedt
 TAKING CHANGES.