The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-04
IF ROOSEVELT, AND NOT WILSON?

An interesting question has been
| sprung, merely speculative of course,
but still Of good deal of interest for
all that, by correspondent Of the New
York Evening Post. 1t was bound to
| come. and it is Just as well for it to
| come in this form. That correspondent
asks if Roosevelt were President
would he follow the methods Of the
present admin nistration. The questions
are put in excellent form, forceful, con
else, and direct, as follows:
To the Editor OF The Evening Post
Sir; Would YOU mind plain mans
askins yon some plain questlonso
ID IL Theodore Roosevelt we're Presi-
dent, would we have an incompetent Sec
retary Of State. and in consequence a
feeble Mexican policyo
% Would Huerta dare to talk to
Roosevelt as he talks TO Wilson,
% Would we have a Secretary OF the
Trea sury dancing the cancan for the edi-
ncauon OF lot Of Wild men In Com
sress1
% Would we have an Attorney Cen
eral who would permit himself 10 get
mixed up In such an affair as the Digga-
Caminetti caseo
as Governor OF the Philippines and an
other as Collector OF New York?
90 Would we have such (Ho! Hoo
90 Would We have such a buncomhe
riff policy
tSl Would We have such a do-noth-
Ing special session OF Congress. making
us laughing stock among nations?
After all. do you not think that the
habit of voting the Republican ticket
straight is a pretty good habit, and that
those like the Evening Post who advise
ANYTHING else have much TO answer eor2
10 ''i:55s LEON PHILLIPS.
New York. August 90
The editor Of the Evening Post
lodges, saying: we caunot help dodg-
ing; for what our correspondent evi-
IDENTIFY needs is not an editor, but an
astrologist Which is rather neat
way. out Of 1t. but at the same time
leaves the questions pending and they
are certainly interesting questions
A Roosevelt admirer in Oregon en-,
closed these questions to the Portland
Oregonian. (Which is not n Progressive
or Roosevelt paper.) and requested re
print and reply. The Oregonian was
disposed to dodge, even as the New
York Evening Post was so disnosed,
and vet the Oregonan makes a pretty
straightforward reply after all, in the
following words
4 contributor OF the New York Even.
ing Post asks that journal variety OF
pointed questions on the policies and
methods OF tire Wilson administration,
and Progressive friend sends a copy of
the letter to the Oregonan with a REQUEST
70 reprint and 10 reply, If We can The
Oregonian will reprint, but II will not
reply, Like the Post, IT is disposed to
dodge.
Anyone Is entitled TO his own guess
as 10 what would have happened in Meyi-
co il Theodore Roosevelt were President
Of the United States.
If President Roosevelt had sent John
Lind. or any confidential agent TO Mexi-
co, he would have supported Lind In his
dema nds With all the great power OF tho
United States, and ne would have gone
II Theodore Roosevelt had made up his
mind that i've had n duty 10 require Huer-
Ia 10 resign, Hucrta would have resigned,
either under persuasion or through COM
pu!sion
If President Roosevelt had discovered
that Americans in Mexico were being
1rdered and their property despoiled he
not have eyaded his plain duty TO protect
them Or require their protection by the
weak device OF asking them to leave
Mexico.
n Theodore Roosevelt we're President
he would have used the Big Stick and not
merely the Big Talk In the one instance
its display would have been sufficient: In
The other II was nothing but empty talk
IF Theodore Roosevelt We're President
VIC should have an outright diplomacy for
Mexico. and not the diplomacy OF hesita-
tion parley. and failure.
II Theodore Roosevelt were President
there would be peace in Mexico II he
set about TO compel peace.
We don Z believe that any one could
reply TO those questions any better
than the Oregonian has done, so we are
to give the questions and the
answers as made, and let it 20 at
that.