New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-02
PERVERSTON OF FACTS.
Presidents attitude to Las and
Order Misrepresented.
Editor Of The Tribune.

10 The Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The sun in its leader Of July 50 quotes
from Marshall Field that the most imperative
present need Of this country is more respect for
law and order It announces that it agrees
with Mr.. Field. and says: Would it were
possible that Judge Parker or Mr.. Roosevelt, or
both of, them, could entertain the same senti-
ment" Saying nothing about Judge Parker, is
it possible that The Sun" is ignorant Of the
repeated expressions of the substance Of that
sentiment by President Roosevelt?
The sun" proceeds to charge upon the Presi-
dent that he is against the Constitution in
gross and in detail; that the most sacred ele-
ment Of the Constitution" is liberty of con-
tract the right Of every man to sell his labor
to whom he will. for such price as he is willing
TO accept"
We should say that the guarantee Of equal
protection to that right. TO other rights. was
the most sacred element of the Constitution;
and, to the declared sentiments of Presi-
dent Roosevelt on these points the fol-
lowing few quotations from his speeches, among
many that might be made. will show whether
these charges Of THE sun" are true or false:
At Spokane on MAJ 2G, 1903:
ours is a government of liberty by. through
and under the law. No man is above it and
no man is below it. The crime OF cunning. the
crime of greed the crime Of violence. are all
equally crimes and against them all alike the
law must set its face.
To the waceworiters at Butte. Mont. May
-. 1909
The law is 20 be administered neither for the
rich man such nor for the poor man as
such. Whether q mans offence takes the
form of sreed and cunning or the form of physi-
Cal violence. in either case, If he violates the
law. the law is TO be invoked against him: and
in so invoking it ! have the right TO challenge
the support of all good citizens and TO demand
the acquiescence of every good man. hope |
have it: but once for all I wish it understood
that even If do not have it I shalt enforce the
law.
At the state Fair at Syracuse on September
4 1903:
II alive to their true interests. rich and poor
alike viii set their faces like flint against the
spirit which seeks personal advantage by over
riding the laws without regard TO whether this
spirit shows itself in the form of bodily violence
by set Of men or in the form of vulpins
cunning by another set Of men. We must
ever keep in mind that Republic such as ours
can exist only by virtue of the orderly liberty
which comes through the equal domination OF
the law over all men alike. and through its ad-
ministration in such resolute and fearless fash
ion as shall teach all that no man Is above II
and no man Is below H.
In reference 20 the Miller case. July a. 1903:
No person shall be refused employment or in
any way Disseminated against on account OF
membership or non-mern bership in any LABOR
organization, and there shall DC no discrimina-
ton against or interference with any emPloye
who is not a member of any labor organiza ton
by members Of such organization
President Roosevelt wrote 70 Secretary Cor
| telyou:
It is mere elementary decency TO require that
all the government departments shall be handled
in accordance with the principles thus clearly
and fsarlessly enunciate3
In the Ugh, Of these quotations clearly re-
peated IN the speech accepting the nomina-
ton can anything else be said oe The Suns"
charges than that they are either ignorant o.
wilful misrepfesentations2 Z. d. 2.
Brooklyn. July 81. 1874