The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-12-29
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that paper in his special message to
Congress today says:
"Mr. Roosevelt is mistaken. He
can not muzzle the World.
"While no amount of fbillingsgate
on his part can alter our determine
tion to treat him with judicial impair.
tiality and scrupulous fairness, we re-
peat what we have already said, that
the Congress of the United States
should make n thorough investigation
of the whole Panama transaction, that
the full truth may be known to the
American people.
"The World appreciates the impor-
tance and significance Of Mr.. Roose-
welt 3 statement when he declared to
Congress that the proprietor of the
World Should be prosecuted for libel
by the governmental authorities and
that 'the Attorney General has under
consideration the form under which
the proceedings against Mr.. Pulitzer
shall be brought
ever asserted the doctrine of lese
majestic or proposed, in the absence OF
specific legislation, the criminal prose.
cution by the government of eitisens
who criticized the conduct of the gov
ernment or the conduct of individuals
who may have had dealings with the
government. Neither the King of
Great Britain nor the German Empe.
ror would venture to arrogate such
power to himself.
".John Adams attempt to enforce
the sedition law destroyed the feder-
alist party in America. Yet Roose.
welt, in the absence of law, officially
proposes to use all the power of the
greatest government on earth to Grip
ple the freedom of the press on the
pretext that the government itself has
been libeled-and he is the govern.
ment.
at is true that the World printed
the public reports concerning the Pa.
mama Canal affair, which resulted from
William Nelson Cromwell's appeal to
the district attorneys Office during
the recent campaign to prevent the
publication of story which was said
TO be in the hands of the Democratic
National Committee.
1T was Mr. Cromwell's own action
which raised the issue in the cam
paign. 1t is true also that when Mr..
Roosevelt made his attack upon Della.
van Smith, the World called attention
to certain statements which Mr.. Roose-
welt must have known to have been
false and misleading, and appealed to
Congress to end all scandal by a full
and impartial investigation. II this
be treason, let Mr.. Roosevelt make the
most of it.
"Mr. Roosevelt's lamentable habit
of inaccurate statements makes it I'M
possible to accept his judgments or
his conclusions. In his message he
does not state correctly even so sim
Pile matter as the pretended causes
of his grievance.
Presidents Word Challenged.
"The World has never said that
Charles p. Taft or Douglas Robinson
made any profits whatever. Mr.. Taft
denied that he was concerned in the
transaction in any way, which denial
the World published and accepted. 1t
would have been equally glad to print
Mr.. Robinson denial had it succeed
ed in obtaining it from him, as it fire.
uuently attempted. The World has no
evidence that he was associated with
Mr. Cromwell and would accept his
word to that effect; for Mr.. Robinson
is an estimable gentleman of high char
acter. whose reputation for veracity
is infinitely better than that of his
distinguished brother-in-law.
Roosevelt Called Demagogue.
"If the World has libeled anybody
we hope it will be punished, but We
do not intend to be intimidated by
Roosevelt s threats or by Roosevelt q
denunciation or by Roosevelt's power.
"No other living man ever so gross
" libeled the United States as does
this President, who besmirches Con-
gress, bulldozes judges, assails the in
tegrity of courts, ISLANDERS private cit
iZens and who has shown himself the
most reckless, INSCRIPTIONS dema-
gogue whom the American people ever
trusted with great power and au'
thority.
"We say this not in anger, but in
sincere sorrow. The World has i'm
measurably more respect for the Office
of President of the United States than
Theodore Roosevelt has ever shown
during the years IN Whlch ne mas
maintained reign of terror and viii
fed the honor and honesty of botf
public officials and private citizens
who opposed his policies or thwartet
him in his purposes.
$50 far as the World is concerned
its proprietor may 60 20 Jail if Roose
welt succeeds, as he threatens; bu
even in Jail the World will not eeas,
to be a fearless champion of FIRE,
speech, free press and n free people.
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cret Service paragraph of his messag
as huge joke at the expense of Con
gress for having undertaken to inter
fere with his administration of the Sc
cret Service. But Senators replie
that it was very serious kind of
joke and they did not propose to il
more it.
And so things went on and the Pre-
ident called Chief Wilkie of the Secre
Service to his office. What transpire
: has not been given to the public, bl
il is understood that Mr.. Wilkie WI
directed to prepare statement an