The Holly chieftain., 1904-08-26
An Open Letter to President Roosevelt

your Cabinet on the eve Of your per-
sonai campaign Tor election to the
presidency
The polite removal OF Attorney Gen
eral Knox Just as lie had demonstrated
in one notab BILE instance his ability to
enforce the Law against combining cor
poratioDs. after all previous attorneys
general of both parties had failed. was
shocking submission 10 the pluto
cratic power which with admirable
courage you successfully challenged In
the Northern Security case But the
transfer of Secretary Cortelyou from
the head of the department OF com
merce-created as the law declares to
make dilieent investigation OF the
piauorm says; TO secure reasonable
publicity of their operations to the
embarrassing of your campaign com
Inittee has all the appearance OF de
ilberaie preparation for partisan black
mall OF the very corporations that were
to be investigated.
Mr. Corteiyou, formerly your private
secretary, was at the head of the de-
partment of commerce just long
enough to acquire by "diligent inyes-
dgation" such Information as would be
useful to the filler of your campaign
chest The public does not share this
Information. There is no evidence that
making use OF II to suppress and pun
ish such odious and oppressive mo-
nopolles as the beef trust-which con-
trolls the greater portion of the me
private and ex-public Secretary Cor
telyou-Chairman Cortelyou of your
al that the law enabled him to learn
OF the inner workings of the potential
campaign contributors!
what save a consuming ambition to
could have led you to shift your sue
cessful trust prosecutor to Quay's place
as trust agent In the Senate, and to
.ars anu trust investigator INTO cam
PHaiSm 'rust iat1ryer In place OF Mark
mama NINA deceased?
lstratioh OF the government been on a
cleaner anu higher level We appeal
10 an honest men whether there was
ever grosser abuse OF power, a great
e er Pu das scandal or more unprinci-
pee denance or decent public opinion
,nan is this transfer OF an official in
a a, 10 pc collector OF campaign
funds from them
Ell od say mat you earnestly desire
Irlehdship with all the nations of the
think peace is right well as advan-
n taeeGas Ana can sr you wonder that the
PACING utterances the Roosevelt they
nave known hitherto? A short time
ago, IN urging the creation of an ever
inc guidance OF the nation was: Speak
Softly, put carry a big stick. Is the
man who habitually does this generally
me other nations of the New World
thought that you, as President of this
republic, really desired peace and
friendship with them when you wrote
IN your letter 10 the cuban dinner:
ANY country whose people conduct
themselves well can count upon our
}hat It knows how to act with decency
IN industrial and political matters, If
~ !, keeps order ana pays ITS obligations,
then 1t need fear no Interference from
tne IHlteu STATES. Brutal WrOnE-dOing
or an impotence which results in the
general Ioosening of the ties of civilized
by some civilized nation and in the
western hemisphere the United States
can not ignore IT'S duty.
that. if any of the republics of Central
or South America fails to "act with
dec ea S1y-yon being the judge-or II
obligations las some OF the states of
our Union have failed to pay) it need
lear no interference from the United
states fail TO live up to your standard
OF order ana morality, civilized so.
eiety may nnally require intervention,
ignore its duty?
In other words. you propose that
you; as PRESIDENT or the United States.
and sponsor Of all the turbulent chron-
ically revolutionary, bankrupt. sham
and Will undertake to make them "act
with decency" and pay their debts to
the bonqholders, spectators and usur-
ers of Europe.
Can even the widest imagination
conceive a more grotesque. .preposter-
Gus and dangerous perversion of the
Monroe doctrine than is contained in
this extraordinary proposition? 1t
combines the humbug OF Barnum with
the hypocrisy of uriah Heep-and all
to prove, as you say in your speech.
that the non-lnterterenee doctrinee. of
James Monroe Is "A living realitvV
If there could be derived a more eff
fective perpetual invitation to war and
imagination of diplomatists and the
combative instinct of soldiers looking
for. fight have not yet conceived it.
Can you wonder that the conserva-
tive business mon Of the country r,,hn