The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-01-29
THE WAR ON ROOSEVELT.

stand the great amount Of abuse that
President Roosevelt has. Three years
ago after he WAS elected to his first
elective term as president he started
1n to break up the great and lucrative
game of graft that was being played
by this cOuntry's largest business men
in conjunction with traitors in the
senate and house of representatives.
During these three years finanCicrS,
whom we have been accustomed for
years to regard as men of the great
est honesty, have been shown up in
their true colOrs as nothing better
than rich sneak thieves. The meth
things in Wall street can never rise
above the level of those of sneak
thieves, whether they are planning a
great attempt to defraud the people
out of their hard earned money or
whether they are planning to destroy
the confidence Of the people in the
one man who has worked SO hard for
their economic freedom. During these
years the insurance companies scan
dial had a thorough airing and the
public had an excellent opportunity to
see just how dirty the fine linen of
Wall street magnates could become.
Then there was the fight against Har-
riman, the man who would like to COB
bic up all the American railroads, and
he showed his supreme regard for his
country by practically telling the
judges before whom he was summon
cd, to go to --whenever a ques-
ton was asked, that he did not care to
reply to. There was no difficulty in
seeing from Harrimans attitude that
he thought he was much greater than
After this the country was RECALLED by
the trial of the Standard Oil trust for
rejoiced to see a fine of S29, 900 900
assessed against the corporation. But
the abstract and not in the concrete
as not a penny of the s29.00O,000 has
ever been paid to the government by
the oil octopus
With the end of President Roose-
velts term drawing near, these men
whose game he had interferred with
determined to take a hand in choosing
his successor so that they would never
again be subjected to governmental
interference and could pursue their
green goods game in peace. The first
thing they attempted was to destroy
the presidents popularity with the
great mass of people. BY doing this
they reasoned he would be unable ia
assist in the election of any clean
handed man to continue his policies
OF returning the government of the
country to the people. The corrupt
press of the United States at the sig
nal arose and violently denounced the
president declaring that his acts and
policies were driving the country tC
certain panic. And last fall as the
last act in the scheme that was to ut
terly destroy President Roosevelt ir
the eyes OF the people. manufactured
panic was forced an the country If
the midst uf the greatest prosperity
Sound businesses Wt,r forced to the
wall TO CRAFTY the u2ly desire Of thes,
Wall street sharks, that the pcopl,
should believe the policies of the pres
ident had brought about hard times
During the hardest pinches of the
money stringency that followed wher
their own interests we're seriousl,
threatened by the holocaust they haC
let loose and that had gotten beyond
their control, the captains of indus
try sent J. Pierpont Morgan in I,
save the situation, Morgan stayed the
money panic and was obligingly hail
ed by the hired and corrupt press o
the nation as the one and only savio
of the people. 1t was clever pla,
sad we'll acted. Morgan was the hero
he poor worIiugmans job was tn,
beautiful heroine, President Roosevelt
VAS the william ana the people of III,