The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-10-12
THE REAL ROOSEVELT FAL.
LEN FAR FROM IDEAL.
"Citizens Must Consider That the
Real and Not the Legendary
Roosevelt Will Be Presi-
dent, II Elected" Says
Carl Schurz.

w 0FtQ. lneIS are Two h0Os6V6ltS
in the feld--the ideal, the legenda-
ry Roosevelt, as he once appeared,
and as many people imagine him
lstjll to be, and the real Rooseveltas
he has since developed. There are,
no doubt, many good citizens who
thing Of voting for Roosevelt, hav-4
ing the legendary Roosevelt in
mind, but they will do we'll to con-.
slider that if elected the real Roose-
welt will be president ~ /
This Is the keynote of a $4,000.
word letter written by Carl Schurz
to the Parker-Independent Club and.
made public yesterday. Mr.. Schurz#
wrote it to supply the place of
speeches which he has been asked
from all sides to make. Translated
into half a dozen languages, more
than a million copies Of the letter
are to be spread broadcast over the
country,
"It was said of President Cleye..
land" Mr.. Schurz writes. chat.
good citizens loved him for the en-.
emies he had made Iapprehend it
will be said of President Roosevelt,
that we have to distrust him for the
friends he has made. It is an ex-.
perience as old as the world that
the friendship of good men is freely
given where deserved, but that the
friendship of the wicked has its
price,"
Mr.. Schurz declares that the re-
publican party is no longer the par.
lty of liberty and human rights or
the party eof moral ideas.'' As
Hong as it was he voted its ticket.
"It is more and more becoming the
party of rich men, who want to be-
come through 1t still richer" he
saws.
| He riddles President Roosevelt's
recent declaration in his letter Of
acceptance that protection is the
preserver of prosperity and high
wages for the workingman. "The
boast that the great advances ofthis
country in wealth and prosperity
were owing to the republican policy
/ of high protection is simply SIAN
| der on The American people," he as
serts.
"The idea that this country, ot
all known countries the richest in
natural resources, with its labor the
most intelligent, energetic and pro.
ductive in the world, should need
1.-THE highest protective tariff ever
enacted in any civilized country to
make our industries 60 aud to save
our, people from ruin and starva.
ton, is so wildly preposterous that
l do not understand how any self.
respecting man can utter it."
Ns.And yet that is what we have
the highest protective tariff of any
Lcivilized country tariff which
E would have made Hamilton and
| Henry Clay stare in blank amaze
ment. And this mere stateme nj
brands as equally preposterous thu
tother audacious pretense-to the it
GRAFTON of which, I regret to say
the president bas recently agair
lent himself-that this tariff il
needed, or that it is one of it
main purposes, simply to offset, il
favor of the American laboring man
the difference between American
and foreign wages. No subterfug'
. could be more shameless"
Mr.. sSchurz lays down these prin
ciples;
"The government Of this repub
lie must be g government of Law
not government of adventure.
SIT must be government for til
general benefit, not a government
of favor for the promotion of sIecia
interests.
'sThere never was political par
ty in democracy, however virtu
Gus 1t may have been at the start
!; that was not by long possession Q
power more or less corrupted ant
made arrogant and arbitrary.
"The things most dangerous tothi
republic are excessive party spirit
corruption, and false patriotism
which is another name for nationa
vanity, or greed under the guise Q
national pride.
"Of all agencies of corruption tn
farthest reaching and the most gen
orally demoralizing is a system q
tpolicy by which the government
deals out benefits of pecuniary val
lue to special interests, those fayore