The Irish standard., 1904-10-29
HIS OWN WORDS
Some Extracts From the Works
Of Theodore Roosevelt.
For The Edification of Voters
Looking for Information.

port, and as few dignitaries of the
Catholic church have publicly endors-
ed his candidacy on the ground that
Catholic interests would be served by
his election, his attitude towards the
Irish race and the Catholic religion is
Il proper subject for public discussion.
The best authority on that subject is
Theodore Roosevelt himself. His
writings were not hasty or ill-consid
cred campaign documents, but the de-
liberate expression of his settled con-
/ victions. In the subjoined extracts
I from his published works his real opin-
ion of the Irish and the Catholics is
set forth.
OLIVER CROMWELL.
Page 49,
"Calvinists and Lutherans felt as
little inclination as Catholics to allow
| liberty of conscience to Others"
I Page Al.
Cromwell belonged among those
earnest souls who INDUCED in the very
honorable dream of world where
, civn government and social life alike
should be based upon the command
! ments set forth in the Bible"
Page 50.
when Cromwell grew to manhood
he was Puritan Of the best type; sin
cere, earnest, resolute to do good as
he saw it, more liberal than most of
his fellow religionists, and saved from
/. their worst eccentricities by his hard
, common sense, but not untouched by
their gloom and sharing something of
I their narrowness."
\ Page 4S.
THE nobleness Of the effort to bring
about thc reign of God on earth, the
inspiration that such an effort was to
( those engaged in it, must be acknowl-
edged by all; but, in practice, we must
remember that, as religious obligation
was then commonly construed, it in
evitably led to the Inquisition in
Spain; to the sack of Drogheda in Ire
land; to the merciless persecution of
heretics by each sect according to It's
power, and the effort to stife freedom
Of thought and stamp out freedom of
action
Page 92.
Essex was no more capable of put.
ting a finish to the war than McClel.
Ian was capable of overthrowing the
Confederacy. The one, like the other
had to make room for sterner and
more resolute men,"
Page 105.
"Ireton.-A good soldier and able
politician, who was devoted to Crom
we'll and was OH very close and in
innate terms with him."
Though the author condemns thu
massacres Of Drogheda and Wexford
he condones Cromwell where he says
Page 1856.
"Of course. we must always remem
Der that under Cromwell there wa
} no burning at the stake, no dreadful
torture in cold blood; and therefore, a
his worst, he rises in a degree abov,
Philip and Alva. But in kind, hi
deeds in Ireland We're the same Al
, theirs in the Netherlands, and thougl
the Puritan soldiers We're guiltless 0
) the hideous licentiousness shown b,
= the Spaniards, or by the armies o
, lilly and Wallenstein, yet the merci
less butchery of the entire garrison
and Of all the priests-accompan b,
the slaughter of other non combatants
!, in at least some cases-leave Droghed
and Wexford as black and terribl
, stains OH Cromwell's character"
Page $40.
1.-The men among whom such falls
3 conventions obtained could not be eX
!. pected to see in its true proportion
the form Of mighty Oliver, loomin
, ever larger across the intervening cen
turtles. Sooner or later, justice will b
u done him. Sooner or later, lie will b
! recognized, not only as one Of til
greatest of all Englishmen, but by fla
the greatcst ruler of England itsel
but rs Il man who. in times that trie
mems souls, dealt with vast question
and solved tremendous problems;
man who erred who was guilty c
> many shortcomings, but who strov
nightly toward the light us it WI,
given him to see the light; man VIII
had the welfare Of his countryme
and the greatness of his country Yer
close to his heart, and who sought
u make the great laws of Righteousness
y living forces in the government of til
world"
= "GOUEERNEUR MORRIS"
n Page ~.
10 'Washington. alike statesman. so
dier. and patriot stands alone.
- Among the people of English stoc
n there is none, to compare with him. III
a less perhaps Cromwell"
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