The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-10-24
THE BULL MOOSE
PROSPAGANDA

The Bull Moose" party had rally
in the new Gunter building yesterday
afternoon at O'Clock. A lady lawyer
from South Dakota, Mrs. Lydia B.
Johnson, was the speaker.
Those staunch friends and faithful
fellow-workers, DR.. T. 7. Winner and
the Rev. ]. NJ. Miller, were the chap
erons of the affair. The meeting re-
minded me of the fellow who was go
ing to be operated on for appendicitis.
He said he wanted minister present,
so that he could be opened with prayer
and closed with the benediction. Mr..
Miller opened the meeting with pray
er, and when | left he was just an
nouncing collection for the benefit Of
the Minister'S Alliance.
| suppose he must have been count
ing on George w. Perkins to take care
of the Bull Moose" finances.
Mrs. Johnson's address was more
like preachers than lawyers talk.
The ministers will have to be going
some, when they do better than the
promises of salvation which she hand
ed out, conditional on our electing
Roosevelt to the presidency. Judging
from her address, il we elect Roose-
velt, there won't be any more child
labor, there will be no more underpaid
women workers, the sick and the old
will all be pensioned, the command
ment, Honor thy father and thy
mother" will become the universal
rule OF American life: in word, the
millennium will be here. But
Mr.. Roosevelt was president of these
United States for seven years. He
has had one chance to see what he
could do towards curing the social
evils of which we all complain. There
were just as many children working in
the factories of the country then, as
there are now; just as many sick, dis
abled and aged workers; just as many
men and women working for less than
living wage; just as many wives OF
conEicts needing the money which
their husbands could not earn by work
ing in prison. Mr.. Roosevelt did mol
then attempt any practical methods
for relief of these evils. And for a
very good reason. The constitution OF
the United States would not permit
him to do so. Practically all the mat
ters of which Mrs. Johnson spoke are
matters within the exclusive control oil
the various states. Roosevelt prom
ises a. living wage to the workers OF
the country if he is elected president
But he knows that this is a matter OF
which congress could not legislate
No law of the United States could
regulate the hours that women should
work in Oklahoma. Mr. Roosevelt, IN
other words, is making promises which
he cannot fulfill without overthrowing
the whole government of the country
He is a hypocrite, a selfdeceived en-
thusiast, or revolutionary Either
he means to abolish the constitution
or he knows that his program is i'm
possible of accomplishment by the
government of the United States.
The study of history throws light OF
the tendency of the Roosevelt propa
ganda. Every once in while, some
one compares Roosevelt to Julius
Caesar. And the Bull Mooses' y laugh
Well they may. Perhaps Caesar
though, wouldn't take It as joke. HI
might consider it an insult. Blu
Mommsen has shown, in his History
of Rome that the destruction o
Roman liberty, though it eliminated
in Caesar, began with Claus Grace us
ninety years or so before. Look min
ute at Gracious, with Roosevelt IL
mind. Gracious was an aristocraf
He made himself the champion of thu
people. He taught them to believ'
that he was the only man in Rome
who could be trusted to manage thu
government in their interest. II
bound them to him by promising then
bread from the public treasury, jus
as Roosevelt bids for them by tallSia;
about the living wage, old age insur
ance by the state, etc. At the sanp
time he played for the support of tn