Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15
Democratic Charge Against
President Roosevelt thas is
Without Foundation.
SAFEST MAN IN COUNTRY
Three Years in the White House and at
No Time Has Anything Been Done that
Did Not Tend Toward Peace
with All the World.

When the bitter personal attacks on
Theodore Roosevelt are analysed. aud
when a Democratic agitator is asked TO
define his opposition to the PrcS.,r.s,
the inevitable reply is that "liooso velt
is an unsafe man."
Now, is heg
What makes an unsafe man? When
is man safe and when is he danger
ousE How are we to judge man-
by what he has done or by what some
one says he may do? Are we justified
IN calling man unsafe who has all
his life been eminently safe? Is not
man entitled to the reputation he makes
| for himself?
For three years Theodore Roosevelt
has had absolute power, as President of
the UHitNa States, and vet during that
three years, although called to the great
office suddenly, as the result of hor-
rible murder, he has never lost his head.
He has never done a dangerous thing.
he has at no time involved the country
in difficulties, either at home or abroad.
False Predictions.
Immediately following the mu.le: of
William Mckinley predictions were
freely made in the Democratic press
that President Roosevelt would involve
the country in war. Has he done so?
1t was also freely predicted that he
| would break with the Republican ma
| jorty in the House and the Senate. and
that he would insist on having his own
way, disregarding the advice of the
| time-honored leaders of the party, Has
he done so?
Does not every one know, on the con-
trary, that the conditions of peace be-
tween the United States and the rest
of the world were never more securely
anchored than to-day? This has not
been because the President has not had
an opportunity to so to war. There
have been half dozen such opportuni
ties at the very least since he became
President, when, if he had been the UNI
safe man he was alleged to be, he might
easily have involved us in war with one
or more of the great powers of Europe.
He has met every diplomatic emergency
with rough and ready diplomacy and ex-
tuordinary tact, which have won for the
United States the respect of the civil
lied world.
| Record in Diplomacy.
Look over the record of the State De
| HHIlillenI uHutT lneOlDfP ItNbSFNelt Tor
the last three years. and see how much
has been accomplished to uphold the Dig
nifty and the honor of the United States,
without at any time causing the slight
est apprehension of foreign war. It was
during the present administration that
special commission was appointed to adj
just the disputed boundary between ..ias-
ka and the Dominion of Canada. Some
of the Canadian people and papers talked
rather sayagely. There was every OPP
portunity for n misstep on the par of
the United States. ~ little too much
buster, little too pronounced brag,
failure in tact at the proper moment, II
substitution of timidity for bravery, or
of rashness for conservatism by Theo-
! dore Roosevelt would have famed the
feeling in Canada into dangerous
flame The Alaska boundary was an
| inheritance from the Mckinley admin
| istrltion, but it was safely settled I'M
| der Roosevelt, settled to the credit Of
the United States, settled without the
loss Of an inch Of American territory.
and settled, too, without the destruction
Of the friendly feeling between Great
Britain aud the United States
When Germany and England ,yere at
EtIGuIIi4H
Venezuela, an unsafe President mignt
easily have involved ms in war WITH
those two countries. and timd Presi-
dent might easily have brought upon the
flag the shame Of the rest Of the world
Russia and Japan have been at war.
The sentiment Of the people in this
country has been largely in favor Of
japan. Yet John Hay, the wise and dis
Greet Secretary Of State, appointed by
Mckinley and unhesitatingly retained
by Roosevelt. has so successfully direct
cd the course Of American diplomacy
that the United States to-day is as much
the friend Of Russia as it is of the little
fighting cock, Japan. The United States,
in fact, has dictated the diplomatic con-
duct of hostilities between Russia aud
japan. This country has dominated the
situation, and yet at no time has there
been the slightest danger that we might
become embroiled with any foreign ma
ton.
Safe Every Day In the Year.
These are the actual results of three
years Of the foreign policy OF Theodore
Roosevelt, the man who. when he en-
tered the White House as the result of a
murderous bullet, was by his political adj
versaries pictured to the other nations OF
the world as a braggart and swash-
buckler. He has been safe. always safe.
every day and every hour. since he has
been President of the United Statet' He
has never lowered the American nag to
anybody, he has never been forced to
apologize and he has conducted every
episode OF our foreign policy, with the
advice Of John Hay. in such a way as
TO preserve the honor Of the American
Republic, aud to gain the respect Of the
sovereigns OF the world. There is not a
king. nor an emperor nor a president,
nor a pOtentate from Pekin to rmbuctoo
who does not know to-day that Theo-
dOre Roosevelt is Of the best American
type. honest. frank. courageous, sensi-
Bile, and always safe for those who treat
him fairly.
Men Of the Roosevelt type are unsafe
only 10 the dishonest. to the disturbers
Of the peace Of nations. to the grafters
at home and the grabhers broad, to the
manipulat0rs of markets and the wreck
ers ~ nations 70 the honest men. to
the people of the home and the freside,