The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-06
THE DANGEROUS DECEITFULNESS
 OF ROOSEVELT
GEORGE IL. FOX OF NEW HAVEN DISCUSSES RECORD OF THIRD
 TERNEER.

In pamphlet entitled '-rfne Dan
 e-erous Decedtfutness of Roosevelt,
 George L. Fox of New Haven scores
 the thfrd teFmer in no uncertain
 terms He says:
 After reading the 1ntermana2iy+ iGlas i candidate. I am more than ever m ! pressed with the statement of the 1 Springfield Republican that he IS much the most dangerous character ' in public life, and feel that every | honest citizen who believes in justice
 to his fellow citizens and the moral welfare of this country, should do hiS best to see that he is thoroughly d1s- credfted and his dangerous wicked ness thoroughly revealed to all GIL cIssses- whom he Is, in the most un- soEupuious way, trying to deceive
 Two reasons among. others make ssrous. The first is his most un- scrupulous moral character in dea1lng' with moral or political questions: His great delight is to obscure the truth and make the worse appear the bet ter reason, for his own selfish am p1- ton. Judged by his official utter. auces. when he stole the Isthmus or Panama, and by his speeches and acts during the present year, he has abso- Iutely no regard for honor. the law pledges. loyalty to friend. party, pr1n- cfple or country, if these stand in the way of the tyrannical egotism and | his actions. He affects to be the great champion of the people, when he is really their determined enemy in doing his best to maintain the high lco@f of living. that constitutes their
 The second reason is that because personality, thousands of worthy citi- zens allow themselves to be hood winked by him and will not for a moment apply to him the same ethf- cal standards of conduct which they apply to their neighbors. No former President of the United States comes utferance- To the student of logic, his speeches abound in the most strik- ing examples of the varied forms Of perversion of the truth. which are re- coenized in the text books on that subject. A famous editorial on Mil ford Harbor by the late Isaac H. eel and meditative clam" The first expression is thoroughly appropriate to Roosevelt in his sinuous methods of argument and statement When his former utterances are brought up, he squirns out of them in the most contemptible way, as in the case of Aldrich law. Now these Roosevelt cranks on such occasions simply fold their hands. smile and say, What ever Roosevelt says or does is true and right" The Chicago Tribune and Golfers Weekly fiercely condemn President Taft for not vetoing the
 
 oniy saviour of the nation Roosevelt, who ardently approved of it and nev- CT made a move, while President seven years, to lower the tariff No public man could possibly betray the interests of the great body of con- surners as he did by complete change of front on the Canadian Reciprocity question, from being a strong advo- cate of lowering the price of food to pledgfng himself in the strongest way 10. prevent it in the future. when he . bierfIv licked the boots of the North western farmers, in order to Win their votes, without severe condemnation, and vet when he abdectly swallowed his own words from sordid motives, his followers laud him as the perfect knight, whom they will follow every where
 The great questions which are pressing for solution in this land arc economic and financial, the Tariff, rency and banking. With these ques- tions Roosevelt is in no way fitted to deal on the intellectual side, even if he were 2 man 1f h1gn l, moral char political life. He is conscious of this himself in his soberer and franker moments. In one of his most inter esting speeches. Senator LaFo1lette l has Ziven most positive testimony on this 4Doint in that account of the con- versa lion which he had with Roose- l veIts shortly before he left the White | House. Then he spoke somewhat in | this way, "1 have no liking for these | economic questions with their com | plicated details, requiring most de- tailed drudgery and study in order to | solve them. I have no head for them | and I gladly leave the task of deal | ing with them to some one else" The | truth of this self-analysis is evident to many economists who have studied | his speeches He simply scratches the surface. for instance in that 1 zTt1da4 CA4eago speech, where he at-