Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-31
Roosevelt and the Day.

Chicago Evening Posp.
What is Theodore Roosevelt? Is he
the nations greatest menace or its
most precious human asset? Does he
work evil or good?
Never since the fighting crisis of the
Roosevelt administration have these
question been more earnestly argued
than they are today. Take but the
words which were spent upon this issue
yesterday.
First we have NJ. Wooisey Stryker,
president of Hamilton College and
former Chicago clergyman. speaking as
follows:
resent Roosevelt as national or
state issue l have had enough Of
him. He is mighty hunter. but he
can not have my pelt. He is an atti-
tudinizer and uses the American people
as his looking glass
His record shows great lack of ethi-
cal perspective and fundamental disre-
gard of law His own sweet will suf-
fees for him. He is a great musician.
He plays a fine old tune. Il am it, His
text is always his own infallibility. He
regards himself as an irreproachable
example of immaculate rectitude.
In New York he is one thing and in
Kansas another In Massachusetts he
embraces Lodge, in Indiana he puts his
arms around Beverage. In New York
he talks against bosses. and in Cincin-
natl he kisses them.
There may be one who thinks he
would be a good Diaz, but few Of US
would make good Mexicans. He has
been preaching disra ra cement OF the
supreme court, the final bulwark of our
liberty.
And among the discrim nations thus
made are some which Mr.. Roos evelt's
close friends are making against him
today. Nor can the verdict of history
overlook them.
Yet look now upon the other side of
the picture Another Chicago clergy
man. man of the finest sincerity and
the broadest humanity, DR.. Frank w.
GunsauIus. said last night:
The new ma tionalism in America is
the hope not only in this country but
I of the world.
/ Not only the eyes of Europe but OF
the Orient are on America, watching
what We will do with the idea. Eur
ope is in a ferment. She is watching
developments here in the hope that
light may be dawning. She regards
Roosevelt as the prophet of new era.
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the leader of American thought that
his passage thru her Kingdoms eclipsed
every other event.
What is true of Europe is true Of the
Orient Japan and China are only wait
ing for Lincoln
We have given birth to the new ma
tionalism, new idea 10 transfigure and
ennoble the lives Of men We have
stamped upon it the seal of our belief.
and we are led to ii by our greatest
and best.
Somewhat of a contrast in these two
speeches. In one a Diaz. in the other
a Lincoln. In the first an assailant Of
the final bulwark of our liberty" in
the other the hope not only OF this
country but of the world.
Take next the statement of Senator
A B Cummns of Iowa. representing
the fighting edge of the republican
party and speaking both as party man
and insurgent:
There are many important and diff
cult subjects which will in the future,
as in the past, challenge the attention
and care of the congress Of the United
States, but there are three of these
subjects which by common consent are
lifted up high above all others so that
they long have been and will continue
to be pre- eminent in the region Of
statecraft:
The regula ton and control of cor
porations, including the supervision Of
all such forms of combined concentrat
ed wealth and industry as affect inter
state commerce and, including. of
course. all railway and other Transport
taton companies engaged in interstate
traffic.
The adjustment from time to time of
duties upon imports. or, as it is most
commonly known. 1.-The tariff"
The conservation of those natural re-
sources which are still the property Of
the whole people.
OF these three paramount issues"
ia med by the insur gent leader. two
conservation and corporation control
are fairly and undeniably Roosevelt
policies
And the colonel himsel-what did he
have to say upon the topic Of the hour?
Swinging around the circle in upper
New York he said:
The big Roosevelt doctrine is Thou
shalt not steal" They may call them
iali the Roosevelt policies" if they wish.
but they are simply the politics OF the
iaverage far-sighted man.
This finishes the composite picture of
the day. The most truthful impression
conveyed by the plates that go into 1t,
each man must pick out for himself.
For Theodore Roosevelt and the things
for which he stands are too close to our
national life to be ignored. and the ser
vice which he has rendered the repub-
lie in the past is too great to permit
him to be sighted.
Fair determinations concerning
Roosevelt Will help both him and our
selves. Unfair condemnation or unwise
pra ise may hurt the very causes for
which we need him most.
'To Defeat the Roosevelt Policies"
TNeuv York Tribune1