Cañon City record., 1904-09-15
Democratic Charge Agains,
President Roosevelt that Is
Without Foundation.
SAFEST mAn III COUNTRY
Three Year, In the White House and a,
No Time Has Anything Been Done that
Did Not Tend Toward Peace
with All the World.

Wnen tine bftfer personal attacks on
Theodore Roosevelt are analysed. and
when a Democratic agitat0r is asked to
define his opposition to the President,
the inevitable reply is that Roosevelt
b an unsafe man"
Now. il he?
What makes an unsafe mani When
b man safe and when is he danger
Gus? How are we to judge a man
BY what he has done or by what some
one says he may do? Are we justified
In calling 4 man unsafe who has all
his life been eminentiy safe? Is not
man entitled to the reputa ton he makes
for himself?
For three years Theodore Roosevelt
has had absolute power, as President OF
the United States, and yet during that
three years, although called to the great
ONCE suddenly. as the result of a hor-
rible murder. he has never lost his head.
He has never done a dangerous thing.
he has at no time involved the country
in 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
jority in the House and the Senate, and
that be would insist on having his own
way. disregarding 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 were never more securely
anchored than to-day? This has not
been because the President has not had
an opportunity To 80 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 eI-
traordinary tact. which have won for the
United States the respect of the civil.
i2sd 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 at any time causing the slight
est apprehension OF foreign war. 1t was
during the present administration that =
special commission was appointed to ad-
just the disputed boundary between aIas-
ka and the Dominion Of Canada Some
Of the Canadian people and papers talked
rather savagely. There was every op-
portunity for misstep on the part Of
tie United States A little too much
bluster. 4 little too pronounced braE.
failure In tact at the proper moment, .
substitution of umidity for bravery. or
OF rashness for conservatism by Theo-
dore Roosevelt would have famed tha
feeling In Canada into dangerous
aaime. The Alaska boundary was an
Inheritance from the Mckinley admin
fstratiou. 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
venexuela. an unsafe President might
easily have involved US in war with
those two countries, and timid Presi-
dent might easily have brought upon the
nag the shame OF the rest of the world
Rusaia 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. appoiuted by
Mckinley aud unhesitatingly retained
hy Roosevelt. has 50 successfully direct
ed the course OF American diplomacy
that the United States to-day is as much
the friend OF Russia as il Is Of the little
aghtins-cock. Japan. The United States,
In fact. has dictated the Diplomatic ccn-
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 embroiled with any foreign na-
tion.
eafe Every Day In the Year.
There are the actual results OF three
ysAra CT the foreign policy OF Theodore
Roosevelt. the man who, when he en-
tered the White House as the result Of a
versaries pictured 10 the other nations ee
the world as a brasgsrt and = swaSh-
buckler. He has been safe. ALWAYS safe.
every day and every hour. since he has
been President OF the Urit~d States He
las never lowered the American bag to
auyhcdy. he 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 ss
b preserve the honor OF the American
Republic. and to gain the respect Of the
severrixns Of the world. There Is not
ktne. nor an emperor. nor president.
noe pctentate from PeSin TO Nmhnceos
1bo dcca not know to-day that rbeo-
aere Roosevelt Is OF the best Amercin
lypa. hsncst. frank. courageous. seusi-
~. an1 always safe for those who treat
Nh fAirH.
3eA u sk- Roosevelt type sre unsafe
~ - ths dishonest. to the diS,urecrs
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