The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-05

4 were on friendly relations.
Roosevelt, the undemocratic-whe
did more than any other man living
to destroy and dismember three re
publics, and is now seeking to under
mine the great republic and establish
for himself a dictatorship upon its
: ruins.
Roosevelt, the cruel-whose treat
ment of many persons in our own
country and millions of people in the
: Philippines was most unjust and
heartless.
Roosevelt the usurper, who inter
feres in domestic as we'll as foreign
affairs, who not only disregards the
: law, but in the absence of law assum
ed unwonted authority that involved
i the expenditure of many millions OF
I dollars.
4 Roosevelt demagogue, who is
creating dissension and disaffection
among the iaboring classes, and yet
who is the daily companion, support
ed by and intriguing with men OF
colossal wealth, whose fortunes have
been drawn from the people through
4 trusts and monopolies.
4 There is no character more despic-
able than hypocrite Yet here is a
man railing against the trusts, who
when in office prosecuted only a few
that he thought unfriendly to him
and protected the great majority OF
4 trusts of our country, and personally
actually helped to create and estab-
lish the most colossal trust now in
/ existence. He is constantly denounc-
ing partisan bosses, yet he is more
Indebted to them for his success than
4 any other man of our country. He
has been for years recognized as one
himself, and while in public office he
4 was the boon companion of the worst
political scoundrels that this country
/ has ever produced. He travelled all
1 over this country denouncing corpor-
ations when he was daily using with
out payment private cars and trains
of corporations. Why does he not tell
/ the truth about corporations, capital
and labor! He knows perfectly we'll
that no one man could dam our rfp-
ers, build our factories, foundries and
railways. They had to be built by
corporations, created and controlled
by our people through their various
legislatures. All of the great indus
tries of our country have been deveI-
oped and established in that way, and
1t has brought billions of capital
from other countries and afforded oc-
cupation, prosperity and happiness to
millions of our people.
Do we wish to cripple and destroy
our great industries, close our work
shops, factories and foundries; par
alyze our commercial avenues; close
our savings banks; impoverish our
people, and drive out capital, as it can
be easily done, to other countries? He
and every other man knows that labor
in our country is today better paid,
better housed, better led and clad
than laboring classes ever have been
in any other part of the world. Any
measure required for their better
ment is within their own hands, and
can be easily accomplished by their
representatives in their municipal,
state and general government. 1t is
madness to create in the minds of any
class of our people disregard and
want of confidence in their system OF
government that has for more than one
hundred years blessed the people of
this country Nothing could be more
injurious than to create feeling Of
distrust and disaffection that must re-
suit in chaos and desolation A man
to crafty his own selfish desires and
ambition, who would disregard Or de-
stroy the traditions and principles
established by Washington, Jefferson
and Madison and maintained by their
compatriots since that time, is a trait
or to his country. What we need is
more business and less politics, more
statesmen and fewer hyprocritical
demagogues. / have faith that the in
telligence and patriotism Of our. SOW
ereign citizens will never follow such
a leader. During his maladministration
he did more to lower the dignity of the
high office he occupied, more toward
the Capitalization of power in the
executive of the nation, than all the
men who had preceded him, and fin
ally left the country in a state of
financial panic from which it has not
yet fully recovered. AS this third
term adventurer and his coterie of de-
signing men are still most Injurious
and dangerous to the welfare of the re-
public, | trust that our people will
awaken from the apathy and indiffer-
ence, which in some sections Is mani
fest, to the serious realization of the
condition of our affairs, and | hope
that none of our people will be carried
away by the false theories and
heresies that are misleading and most
destructive. The institutions, priv
ileges, rights and advantages that our
people now enjoy are too precious and
sacred to be lightly considered. Our
people must never throw down the arc
OF their sovereignty, the hope of hui
mainly, the citadel of our liberties and
independence, the temple OF happiness