The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-09-18
ROOSEVELT ON
ENEMIES SOIL
DEFiES OPPONENTS IN NEW
YORK STATE TO COME OUT
INTO THE OPEN.
HIS ATTACK ON COURTS
Justified by Quotations From Lincoln.
New Nationalism Strongly De-
fendcd-E Endorsed Taft.

Syracuse N. Y, Sept. i7.--Coming
into the stronghold of his opposition,
Roosevelt today boldly echalenged
the opponents OF his political doc.
I trines to come out in the open and
hight II they dared. He prophesied
taat II they did they would be beaten.
, TEc former president also gave warm
commentator to Taft as a public
Official, and expressed his approval OF
number OF accomplishments of the
Taft administration. Roosevelt Didn't
endorse the administration as whole
What he did placed him on record for
the first time with regard to many OF
the more important tnings.
lie also defended his recent criti.
cisms of two decisions by the United
States supreme court made in his
speech at Denver, and quoted the
words OF Taft, written when he was
judge to support the contention that
the people have a right to criticise
the decisions of courts.
Roosevelt spoke at the fair
grounds. He met Timothy L. Wood
ruff, chairman of tne Republican
state commtte% and others who are
his adversaries, and he jested with
tnem about their differences at din.
ner.
Roosevelt was in fighting trim. He
shook his clenched fists in the air
and thundered to.th his message with
all the energyhe co<iDl master. He
said; Z wish my opp ,enls would
come out into the Iopen. n. oslsaCot
from the bushes, but you co., tut
make them come into the open am
fight the is ne.
He dared his opponents to put
themselves on record against him.
He said: "They won't do it. Tney
may criticize me but they viii walk
as though they we're treading on eggs
before they take the other side"
After asserting that the leaders of
bushes must act with the people, ana
tnat the corporations must be the
creature and not the master of the
people, me added: "To paraphrase
the words OF Patrick Henry, If they
be Socialists, make the most of it,"
That's a fairly decent idea, isn't
it?" he asked, after declaring that
every man should have fair cnance,
with special privileges for none"
There is no appeal to the mob,
nothing dangerous. Nobody has any
reason to fear the new nationalism.
but the crook and the boss, and they
both nave. Let~it be understood at
the outset, | have not word to re-
tract.
MIR. Roosevelt's Address.
THE new nationalism," said Mr..
Roosevelt, "means nothing but an ap
plication to new conditions of certain
old and fundamental moralities. 1t
means an invitation to meet the new
problems Of the present day in pre-
cisely the spirit in which Lincoln and.
the men of his day met the new prob.
lens
To his critics he put this issue: IS
any party willing to take the othes
side Of the propositions Of which com
plant is made? I.
Il IF so. 1t would be a good thing to.
lave the issue before the people. for
I'm the end the people would most Ger
tainly decide IN favor Of the prin-
clples embodied in the new national.
ism, because otherwise this country
could not continue to be true repub
lie, true democracy" Ea
The speaker followed with just
fcation of his attacks ON the supreme
court of the United States. He chose
two arguments-one that in his criti
cisms he had merely echoed the mi
nority opinions Of the court itself; the
other, that he had illustrous precs
dent--namely, the example of Lincoln
who, he said, had been far more out
spoken than he himself had ever been.
and the example of President Taft
from whose utterances fifteen years
ago in favor of public criticism OF
the courts he quoted.
Supreme Court Criticism.
take, for instance he continued
what said in reference to two de-
cisons of the supreme court One
decision was in the Knight sugar
case. in which, according to the dis
senting opinion of Justice Harlan, the
Judgment Of the court placed before
the public, SO far as national power
is concerned (the only power which
could be effectively entirely at the
mercy Of the combinations whicn
arbitrarily control tre prices Of az
ticles purchased to be transported
from one state into another state
Il merely took the view which the
learned Justice had taken In his dis