The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-10-05
OUR "sTRENUOUS" PRESIDENT


1t is announced that Secretary Hay is
already sounding foreign governments 10
| ascertain whether they will be inclined
to respond favorably to a call issued by
| President Roosevelt for second peace
congress of the nations at The g
That. we presume. will be considered
.pernicious activity by the Democratic
shouters. why not" they are likely TO
| say. ''let them fight it out without BOTH
ering ourselves about it," That is what
Parker would do. He would not inter-
fere in anything. He would just let the
world wag and if nations were roois
enough TO spend all their effort in killing
off each others people they might do so.
That. however. is not like Roosevelt. lie
is strenuous, even in his ideallsm. He Is
| convinced that altruism is not only en-
nobling to individuals, but to nations,
and having been asked to issue a call foi
a peace congress. and promised to do so,
he goes Immediately about the prellm-
mary arrangements, like the downright,
impulsive. prompt-acting man that ne Is.
| Republicans do not deny that Roosevelt
is a man who does things. And 1t hap
pens that just now the lovers of peace
among the nations are in need of just
that kind of a man. And so 1T has CONF
about hat President Roosevelt is regara-
| ed by all mankind outside the Democrat
ic party as the worlds foremost apostle
of peace.
This is a painful contrast with the rep
utation acquired by the last Democratic
president in the closing year of his term.
Grover Cleveland DID not pose as an
apostle of peace. On the contrary he was
| regarded by the world as a very danger
Gus person to be loose; in fact, the gen
uine bad man of The western hemisphere.
1t was in thai year that he appointed the
! famous Venezuelan commission to deter
mine for this government the true bound
airy between the British possessions ana
Venezuela, and to do SO, in the Demo-
! era tic jargon of that day. without ask
ing the aid or consent of any osher na-
ton" and when the report of that COM
mission is made. said President Cieve-
land, it would, in his opinion. DE the
duty of the United States to resist by
every means in lis power any attemp:
of Great Britain to occupy territory OH
the Venezuelan side of the boundary thus
established.
We do not refer to this in derogation
of Mr.. Cleveland. On the contrary. II
doubtless made him popular with a mui,i-
tude of good citizens who never led
him before, although it did not secure
even so much as mention of the pres:-
dents name in the Democratic platform
of that year. What We do intend by our
reference to this his ,orical episode is to
call attention to the miserable hypocrisy
of President Cleveland's mugwump
friends, who preferred him to all other,
as the Democratic candidate. in denou:.s-
ing the worlds greatest peacemaker as
q truculent dis1ul Der of The Ieace OF lie
world. If they admire the man whose
executive attitude and acts brought us
to the verge of aggressive war with
Great Britain in a quarrel not our OWE,
how can they d%enounce as bellicose ana
unsafe the president who brought a
most dangerous boundary dispute OF our
own with the same government to a final
and peaceful solution by the agency of
an International commission? San Fran
! cisco Chronicle.