Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-02

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the deliberate demagogue, to the exploiter
Of .sensationalism and to the crude and
foolish visionary who, for whatever reason.
apologies for crime or excbes aimless
say by the presidents authority. that
in writing these words, with the horror OF
President McKinleys murder fresh before
mind And ] say by his authority, that
what he thought of Mr.. Hearst then he
thinks Of Mr. Hearst now.
Hearst violent DemaEOsue.
g Characterizing Mr.. Hearst as violent
and unworthy demogOgue aud persistent
cftice seeker. Mr.. Root declared that as a
congressman he had proved worthless
public servant; that while protesting to
favor an Independent judiciary he had made
a deal with Tammany Leader Murphy for
the nomination. Of a judiciary ticket In
New York: that while inveighing aganst
corporations his own corporate manage
ment shows the insincerity of his profess
sion: that It Is not calm and lawful re-
dress Of wrongs which he seeks. but the
turmoil OF infamed passions and the ter
rorism Of revengeful force; that he IL
guided by selfish motives and that he Is
mot guiltless of McKinIey's death" Mr.
Root continued.
The public knows the character Of Mr..
Hearst only by the newspapers he pub-
fishes and God forbid that we should set
up in the high station OF governor OF New
York. for the admiration and imitation Of
our children, the man whose character is
reflected I'm the columns of the New York
Journal and the New York American
But the worst OF Mr.. Hearst Is that with
his great wealth, with his great newspa-
pers, with MS army OF paid agents, for
his own selfish purposes he has been. day
by day and year by year, sowing the seeds
Of dissension and strife ana hatred through
"A lab Inc
capital. and capital against labor: poverty
against wealth and wealth against poverty
with bitter and Vindictve feeling; he would
destroy among the great mass of our
people that kindly and friendly spirit: that
consideration for the Interests and rights
or others; that brotherhood OF citizenship
which, Is essential to the peaceful conduct
OF free popular government; heN would de-
stroy that respect for law, that love Of
order that confidence IN our free institu-
tons which are the basis at once of true
freedom and true justice. The malignant
falsehoods of these journals read by the
Immigrant In his new home where none
can answer them are making him hate the
PEOPLE who have welcomed him to liberty
anu prosperity, to abundant employment.
to ample wages to education for HIS chill
dren, to Independence for his manhood
such as he has never known before. What
public servant hOnored by the peoples
trust has he not assailed with vile and
vulgar epithets2 What branch of our free
government has he not taught his readers
to believe a corrupt fancy of oppression?
Caused McKinley's AssnsslnattOm
Continuing on this subject Mr.. Root said
Only once has this method Of incendiary
abuse wrought out its natural consequence
For years by vile epithets and viler car
toons, the readers of the Journal were
taught to believe that Mckinley was a
" ould be a service to mankind. Let me
quote Of these teachings:
mckinley cOndOnes the treacherous muir
der of our sailors. at HaVans and talks of
MS confidence in the honor of Spain. he
plays the coward and shivets white-faeed
at the foot ball of an approaching war. He
makes an international cur or his country.
He is an AFFECT weak futile, Incompetent
MCKINLEY. bar one gritty Princeton per-
son. who came TO be no more or less than
a living. breathing crime in breaches, is
creature in the hemisphere; his name Is
hooted; his figure is burning IN effigy.
Tho bullet that pierced Goebels chest
| Cannot be found in all the west;
Good reason. II is speeding here
| To stretch mckinley on his bier"
| And this in April, 1901:
| Institutions. like men, win last until they
die, and Il bad institutions and bad mon
i be got rid Of only by killing then the
| What wonder that the weak and excita-
! BILE brain of Czolgosz- -tsRswered to such
impulses as these. He never knew, Nc
answering the lesson he had learned that
IL was a service to mankind to rid the cal tn
of "A monster and the foremost of tile
/ teachers of these lessons to him and his
kind was and IS William Randolph Hearst
and his yellow journals Is there no one
| left who loved Mckinley Are there no
| Workingmen in New York who cannot see
| with satisfaction hohorsi heaped upon the
man who is not guiltless Of Mckinley S
/ death? The same kind Of teaching is be-
! ing continued now month by month and
: day by day by the Hearst journals. It's le-
| Ultimate consequences, II continued, must
! be other weak dupes playing the role OF
| Czolgosz; other McKinleys stretched upon
the bier: discord and bloody strife in place
! of the reign of peace and order throughout
: our fair land. Ii IL not the spirit of WASH
! ingtOn and of Lincoln; II Is the spirit OF
malice for all and charity towards none;
| 1t is the spirit of anarchy, of the COM
Control OF Corporate wealth.
Mr. Root urged his auditors TO return a
majority of republicans In the house OF
representatives TO work with President
Roosevelt in the next congress. He then
said:
The evils which have come with the
enormous increase in corporate wealth IN
recent years are real and serious. There
have been many outrageous practices which
1 ought to be stopped and many wrong
doors who ought to be punished. Thai
should be done not by lynch law, but by
FITS a self-governing people. Defamation
and denunciation and big head lines In
the newspapers will not do the work. rht
thing needed Is TO cut out the wrong doing
and save the business. The same kind Of
patient, experienced and discriminating
surgeon needs in cutting out tumor from
the human body and saving the life of the
patient Now, this process of intelligen
and effective redress of wrongs is COINS