The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-09-28
ANOTHER LIE NAlLEOl
Quotation From Presidents Book
shows His True Feeling.

shows His True Feeling.
Numerous atiempt. arc being made
BY INSCRIPTIONS polite. IL in misquot-
ing and misreprescnt.ug President
Rooseyelt's sayings anC writings to in
jure him In the estimation Of the PEG
pie of this country The claim. for eX-
ample, that he ever referred to the
farmers as the bascst of mankind is
pure lie nude out Of whole cloth PEG
pie In every walk of life will be glad t.
read the following quotation from the
presidents volume. The Strenuous
Life" in the article on Fellow Feeling
MS Political Factor" published over
four years ago:
Nevertheless the fact remains that
the only true solution Of our political
and social problems lies In cutivating
everywhere the spirit of brotherhood.
of fellow feeling and understanding be-
tween man and nun and the willing
ness to treat a man as II man which
are the essential factors in American
democracy as we still see it in the
country districts.
THE chief factor in producing such
d
plane of equality and for II common
object. Any healthy minded American
is bound 10 think well of his fellow
Americans il hc only gets to know
them. Tie trouble is that he does not
know them If the banker and the
farmer never meet or meet only In the
most perfunctory business way. If the
Inn 10 hV ushn IA /
farmer knows as his friends and asso-
ciates, spirit of mistrust Is almost
sure TO spring up. If the merchant or
the manufactures. the lawyer or the |
clerk never meets the mechanic or the |
handicraftSman save on rure occasions, !
when the meeting may be of II hostile |
kind, each side feels that the other is
alien and naturally antagonistic. But
IL any one individual of any group
were to be thrown into natural associ- |
alton with another group the Difficult
ties would be found to disappear 10
far as he Is concerned. Very possibly |
he would become the ardent champion
of the other group.
Perhaps may be pardoned for
quoting my own experience as an in
stance In point. Outside of college |
boys and politicians my first intimate
associates were ranchmen, COW punch
ers and game hunters, and | speedily |
became convinced that there were no
other men In the country who were
their equals. Then | was thrown with |
farmers, and | made UP my mind that |
it WIS the farmer upon whom the |
foundations of the commonwealth real |
ly rested, that the farmer was the
archetypical good American Then |
saw Il good deal of railroad men, and |
after quite an intimate acquaintance
with them | grew to feel that, especial |
~ In their higher ranks. they typined
the very qualities of courage, self re
lance, self command, hardihood, ca
paeity for work, power of initiative
and power of obedience which we like
most to associate with the American
name. Then | happened to have deal
inrs with certain carpenters unions
and grew tn have n great respect for
the carpenter. for the mechanic type
BY this time ii dawned upon me that |
they were all pretty good fellows and
that my championship of each set In
succession above all other sets had
sprung largely from the fact that |
WAS very familiar with the set cham
pioned and less familiar with the re-
mnindcr In other words, had grown
into sympathy with, into understand |
ing of. group after group. with the eff
feet that invariably found TINT they
and | had common purposes and n
common standpoint. We differed
among ourselves or agreed among our
selves not hecauSc we had different
occupations but because of our ways
of looking ut life