Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-11-02
ROOSEYELT'S
ARRANGEMENT
SeVerest Indictment Of Ills Party BY
President Rims:If.
HE TULD OF GENERAL CORRUPTION
Frauds, FOrgelies and Perjuries
OnehseS His Official Message
Finds Among Notorious
Violations Of Law.
HE TULD OF GENERAL CORRUPTION


there likely to be, q severer Indictment
of the party in power that that by
President Roosevelt himself i'll his an
nual message to the second session OF
the Fifty-eighth Congress, transmitted
on Monday, Dee. Z, 1908.
Has the country forgotten how he
referred to the general corruption III
the departments-not merely the Post
office Department, but he included all
the departments? From the manner
in which he referred to the ''deplor-
able state Of affairs" it was thought
that there would be a wholesale purg-
ing, and the consequence was that
when the message was promulgated
the departments were in panic. But
their fears were unwarranted. Only
q few offenders here and there were
to be molested.
But here is that part of the mes
sage in reference to the prevalent cor
ruption at Washington:
I'm my last annual message, in con-
nection with the subject Of the due
regulation of combinations of capital
which are or may become injurious
to the public, recommended special
appropriation for the better enforcement
of the antitrust law as it now stands,
to be extended under the direction or
the Attorney General. Accordingly (by
the legislative, executive and Judicial
appropriation act of February %, 1908;
81 Stat, S54, 904), the Congress ap-
proprlated for the purpose Of enforc-
ing the various Federal trust and in
terstate-commerce laws the sum of five
hundred thousand dollars, to be ex.
pended under the direction of the At
~ In nOn10TnNnnf
special counsel and agents in the De
partment of Justice to conduct pro-
ceedings and prosecutions under said
laws i'll the courts of the United States
I now recommend as a matter Of the
utmost Importance and urgency the eX
tension of the purposes of the appro
priation, so that it may be available
under the direction of the Attorney
General, and until used for the enforce
ment of the laws of the United State;
In general, and especially of the civi
and criminal laws relating to postal
crimes and offenSeS and the subject o.
naturalization. Recent investigations
have shown DEPLORABLE STATE
OF AFFAIRS IN THESE THREB
MATTERS OF VITAL CONCERN BY
VARIOUS FRAUDS AND BY FORG'
ERIES AND PERJURIES, THOU
SANDS OF ACRES OF THE PUBLIC
DOMAIN, embracing lands ofdifferent
character and extending through var
iOuS sections of the country, have been
dishonesty acquired. 1t is hardly nee
essary to urge the Importance of re-
covering these dishonest acquisitions
stolen from the people, and of prompt
~ and duly Furnishing the offenders.
speak in another part of this message
of the widespread crimes and offense
by which the sacred right Of citizen
ship is falsely asserted and that in
estimable heritage perverted to base
ends. BY similar means-THROUGH
FRAUDS, FORGERIES AND PER
JURIES AND BY SHAMEFUL RIB
ERIES-THE LAWS RELATING
TO THE PROPER CONDUCT OF
THE PUBLIC SERVICE IN GENER
AL. AND TO THE DUE ADMINS
TRATION OF THE POSTOFFICE
DEPARTMENT HAVE BEEN NO
TORIOUSLY VIOLATED, AMI
MANY INDICTMENTS HAVE BEEN
FOUND, AND THE CONSEQUENT
PROSECUTIONS ARE IN COURSE
OF HEARING OR ON THE EVI
THEREOF. FOR THE REASONS
THUS INDICATED AND SO THAI
THE GOVERNMENT MAY BE PRE-
PARED TO ENFORCE PROMPTLY
AND WITH THE GREATEST EFF
Feet THE PENALTIES FOR SUCE
VIOLATIONS OF THE LAW, AM
TO THIS END MAY BE FUR
NISHED WITH SUFFICIENT IN
STRUMENTALITIE AND COMPE
TENT LEGAL ASSISTANCE Fol
THE INVESTIGATIONS AM
TRIALS WHICH WILL BE NECES
SARY AT MANY DIFFEREN,
POINTS OF THE COUNTRY,
URGE UPON THE CONGRESS TIL
NECESSITY or MAKING TIL
SAID APPROPRIATION AWAIT
ABLE FOR IMMEDIATE USE Fol
ALL SUCH PURPOSES, TO BE EN-
PENDED UNDER THE DIREC
TON OF THE GEN
ERAL"
By nothing is public mans charac
ter better to be judged than by what b
has to say to the public.
How sLall the people who will vot
for President in November better a
rive at fair judgment Of the characte
of Theodore Roosevelt. as he is. tina
by his latest utteranceS? His supporter
and advisers say that he eonsultedthe1
and discussed with them his most in
portant acts and declarations.
But what is left to be said of Pres
dent, however Influenced, who in or
breath finds fault with all of his d.
partments, saying that by frauds, for,
cries and perjuries they are in a d
plornble condition, and, in the ne,
breath, as in his letter OF acceptanc
speaking OF his administrators recor
declares; "a truthful recital won
leave no room for adverse comment?'
Was the man who wrote the MESA.
20 Congress only last December ST
cere? Was bis recital truthful
Was the same man who wrote lett
accepting the Republican nominate