The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-20
ROOSEVELT INACCURACIES.

Col. Roosevelt is reversing himself
and stating we'll. known facts in Gu
riously inaccurate ways in bewildering
degree this year. We have heretofore
given some examples of this, and will
give some more here Roosevelt, In his
swing around the circle, has referred
10 President Taft as q Wall street ia
yorite This is met by the New York
Commercial d Financial Chronicle con
clusively in the following words, which
show that Roosevelt himself has been
depending upon the Wall street sup
port;
He apparently forects that only a few
months ago when; as contributing editor
of The Outlook he sharply criticized
| the Government under the antitrust
law against the steel Corporation. and
some Stock Exchange sDeculators hailed
| appeared greatly delighted over the fact
| that Wall street appeared To be turning
| To him from Mr.. TAFT Then he cvinced
readiness TO go out and do battle on It's
behalf.
Col Roosevelt told an audience IN
| Illinois that Mr.. Lincoln, in his great
debate with Senator Douglas, made the
stress of his fight son the right of the
people to rule themselves. But moth
ing of this kind was the fact. 1t was
Douglas who WAS contending for the
right of the people in Territories of the
United States to decide for themselves
whether they would have slavery or
not. and it was Lincoln Is contention
that the Territories were naturally
free. and it was his effort in those de
bates to bring Douglas down to the
point of saying when the people could
make this decision, whether at some
time in their Territorial condition. OF
upon their being admitted rs States.
1t was Douglas who championed what
was called popular sovereignty not
Lincoln.
Illustrating Roosevelt's s conception
of the Presidential office, he departed
from his written speech in one of his
addresses, by repeating himself on
Panama, stating 81 took the isthmus
and started the canal, leaving Con
gress to debate me instead of the Ca
nal, which was not quite true, for
Congress participated. But when be
added. 81 think | guessed pretty we'll
what the people wanted in that case
he simply asserted the rightfulness Of
dictatorial power in advance of the
action of Congress, which is the only
power in this Government legally COM
peteut TO deal with such question. In
so asserting his right to exercise arbi.
trary power. Col. Roosevelt puts HIM
self distinctly in the class of dictators,
and shows vicious misconception OF
the Presidential office.
Another instance may be named,
where German paper recently printed
an article, attributing it to Col. Roose-
velt Parts of this were reprinted in a
German paper of st. Louis, and in Pro
fessor Rasmus b, Anderson S "Ameri-
ka.' The article contained the Roose-
welt assertion that Germans in this
country ought to renounce their Ian,
puage and take up English speech.
When Col. Roosevelt was asked about
this, he declared that the article was
"a pure, unadulteratcd fake that he
had never written for the German pa
per. and that 1T was ridiculous to say
that he had ever advised Germans in
America TO drop their native language
Tbereupon, Professor Anderson came
forward, showing that the article was
simply translation of Roosevelt g
"True Americanism published in the
Forum magazine in 1894. in the course
of which he wrote, "lf he (the immi-
prant) tries to retain his old language,
IT becomes barbarous jargon; if he
tries his old customs and ways of life,
he becomes an uncouth boor.' There.
upon. the Colonel being made aware
that his denunciation of the article was
based an false premises, be stated that
nc would Investigate its source He
rs still investigating, but has not taken
back his denunciation of a translated
reprint of his own writing as "a pure.
unadulterated fake
\ passage descriptive of Col. Roosc-
velt's situation. is copied by the Ore
gonisn from "The Life and Times of
Cavour,' by William Roscoe Thayer.
as having peculiar pertinence in it's
relation to Col. Roosevelt and our cur
rent affairs. The extract is as fol
lows;
\ great statesman in eclipse is too
o'tcn either u danger To his country or
destroyer OF his own fame. The world
VIII not soon forget the sorrv spectacle
OF the dcthroncd BismarcL-the Titan
VINO had lifted the German empire ont
oi tho Garth and borne il for 20 years
aloit on his shouldcrs-spendinG his last
ycara In cursing the mere man who over
threw him. Very different the dignity
of his great forerunner. Stein: very dii-
icrent the fruitful retirement or Jeffer-
son and John Quincy Adams, and tho
hoole disdain OF Turcot, happy Mlrabeau
happy Pitt whom premature death
spared the supreme test which too often
shows patriotism 10 be subordinate TO
self love.
Complemeotinc the above. tho scnti.
ment expressed by Col Roosevelt on
April S, 1911. in his address at Spo-