ROOSEVELT THE RASCAL.

NZ Truth, Issue 110, 27 July 1907, Page 7

ROOSEVELT THE RASCAL.

DISSECTED, DESCRIBED, DENOUNCED. «r * ■ Poseur; Pretender, Plutocrats' Pander. The Terrible Trusts' Tainted Tool.

"Rough-rider Roosevelt," the posing President of ihe United Ststcs, Ka... "recently been dissected and described by an American Labour Leader—Eugene Debbs. The description is a merciless one. It does not, m the slightest degree," flatter the President ;" on th-3 contrary, it shows him as. a kind of humbug that Roosevelt realiy is— a trickster, a trimmer, a turncoat, a tergiversator. The article appeared m an American newspaper", entitled, "The Appeal to Reason." We have not space for thc wholo of the article, but we reproduce some of it, as it throws a light on the character of .the President that we are, m this country! not accustomed to seeing. Here, 'then, is what Eugene Debbs has io say about Roosevelt : — „ Rut ence .m my .life have ; I eyer seen Theodore . Roosevelt, and that .was years before be became President of the United States. I was aboard a train m the Far West, where Roosevelt was then- said to be following ranche life, and as he and several companions IN COWBOY COSTUME entered the car at a station ssop, j he was pointed out to me. I did not like him.- The years since have not altered tbat feeling of aversion, except to accentuate it. I have since "seen the nation mad with hero worship over this man Roosevelt, but I have not been impressed by it. Very "great " men fJHSJietinies shrivel into very small «ae_S,- and finally vanish into obliv&>H m the short space of a single ffeaeration.

•THE AMERICAN .PEOPLE, are more idolatrous than any "heathen'\ nation on earth. They worship, their popular "heroes," while tbey last, with a passionate freaky, and with equal madness do they hunt down the sane "fools" who vainly try to teach them sense. Theodore Roosevelt and George Dewey as "heroes," and Wendell Phiblips and John Brown as "fools," are notable illustrations. American-his-tory, is -fined W ith them* •

But my personal dislike of the cowboy m imitation who has since become President, however justifiable; would scarcely warrant a public attack upon bis official character, and this review being of such' a nature, is inspired, as will appear, by entirely different motives. _- In the first place, I CHARGE PRESIDENT ROOSE- ' , VELT with - being a hypocrite,- the most consummate that ever occupied the executive seat of the nation. His profession of pure politics is false, his boasted moral courage the bluff of a bully, and his "square deal" a delusion and a sham. Theodore Roosevelt is mainly for Theodore Roosevelt, and incidentally for such others as are also for the same distinguished gentleman first, last, and all the time. He is a smooth and slippery politician, swollen purple with self-conceit. He is shrewd onougjh to goiage the stupidity of tbe masses,' and unscrupulous enough to turn it into hero worship. This constitutes the demagogue, and he is that m superlative degree. CAUGHT RED-HANDED. Only a few days ago, he appeared, m a characteristic role. Rushing into the limelight, as necessary to him as breath, he shrieked that he and "Root" were "horrified" .because of certain scandalous and revolting charges made by one of his own former political chums. Of course, he and : "Root," of Tweed fame, the foxiest "fixer" of them all, were "horrified" because of the shock to thsir political virtue ; but it so happened that the horror took effect only when they found themselves uncovered. The taking of Harriman's boodle for corruptly electing him President, and the use of the stolen insurance funds for thc same criminal purpose, did not "horrify" the President and "Root," nor would they be "horrified" yet if they had not been caught red-hand-ed m the act with their booty UPON THEIRf^ERSONS. oveS*;^'^r ago .Charles

.Mover, William Haywood, and George" Pettibone, of Colorado, leading officials of thc Western Federation of Miners were overpowered and kidnapped by a gang of thugs and torn from their families at night by conspiracy of two degenerate governors and another notorious criminal acting for the Mine and Smelter Trust, one of the most stupendous aggregations of force and plunder m all America.

Every decent man and woman was ■'horrified" by this infamy, and the whole working classes of the nation cried out against it. Was Roosevelt ' also "horrified" ? Yes !

He was "horrified" because the Mine and Smelter Trust t unclean birds that feather their nests, especially m Colorado, with legislatures and United States senatorships, had not killed instead of kidnapped their victims.

The Mine and Smelter Trust had PUT UP THE FUNDS

and used its vast machinery for Roosevelt, and now Roose\-elt must serve it even to the extent of upholding criminals, approving kidnapping and murdering its helpless victims.

When Roosevelt stepped out of the White House, and called Moyer, Haywood, and Pettibone murderers, men he had never seen and did not know ; men who had never been tried, never convicted, and whom every law of the land presumed innocent until proven guilty, he fell a million miles :i beneath where Lincoln stood, and: there j -he.-, grovels to-day with his ! .politic&ii<. crimes, one after another, .findingi Him out, and pointing at him accusing:;, fingers.

A -DESPI3-&.D MAN. During my. recent visit to , Washington I learned from those who know him what they think of Roosevelt. Among newspaper men be is literally despised. Their true feeling is not apparent m what they write, for they know that the slightest offence to the President is lese majeste, and means instantaneous decapitation.

For the second time, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, has now publicly convicted Mover, Havwood, and Pettibone.' Hehas not pronounced condemnation upon Harry Thaw, or any rich man charged witb murder. He has, however, made a postmaster of a iua-n at Chicago charged by the Chicago "Tribune" with having shot c.ii.tbsr man m a midnight- brawl

OVER DISREPUTABLE WOMEN, and then used his influence to make the same man Mayor of that city.

Mover. 'Haywood, and Pettibone, thc three workingmen kidnapped by tbe Mine and Smelter Trust, have now been m gaol 14 months ; they have n,ot been tried, but twice condemned by President Roosevelt, the last time but a few days a.?***, m connection with Harriman,'. his former political pal and financial backer. These men arc m prison cells, their bodies m manacles and their lips' sealed. They are voiceless and at the mercy of calumny. No matter bow p-r."'!=f- : ly outraged,' they must submit.

R-0:-cvf-3t joined a Labour organis lion purely as a demagogue. In nil bis life he never associated with wor';) iir people. His writings, before he bpca'^c a politician, show that he 'bold them' m contempt. Whr-n he entered political life, be snnn learned bow to shake bands with a fireman for tlie camera and jlea-e his "ress n-.-e.nt to do the j rest, and it was this species of de-Imrgo-ruery, the very ■ basest coi_Iceiva hie, that idolised liim wifch the-'ig-r-o'e.rvfc .mass and pave him Iho ivo f C5r of thc millions he m his jher-rt despised as i ' AN INFERIOR RACE. I In his book on' "Ranch Life and the Hun-tin;* Trail," page 10,' written ion;; before he entered politics, Ecose/veic reveals his innate conI tempt for those who toil. Af bei: describing cowboys when "drunk on thc villainous whisky of the frontier towns," he'uloses with this comparison, which needs no comment ': '/They are muoh better fellows and pleasan.ter companions than small farmers and agricultural laborers ; nor are the mechanics and workmen of a great city to be mentioned m the same breath."

Thc pretended friendship for ths great body of workingmen who arc not to be compared to drunken cowboys has servr-d its dem-ag'Oim.cal purpose, but the final chapter is not. yet written. There will be an awakening, and every act of Theojdore Roosevelt will be subjected' to its searching scrutiny. •Roosevelt is essentially thc monarch of A TRUST ADMINISTRATION. If this is denied, Roosevelt is challenged to answer if it was not the railroad trust that furnished him gratuitously with the special trains that hove him m royal splendor over all the railways of the nation. He is challenged to publish tlie 'list of contributors to his political sewer funds, amounting to milli ions of dollars, and freely used to buy the votes that made him President. Did. or did not, tbe men l.nawn as trust magnates put up the boodle? Boodle drawn from tbe veins of labor ? Will Mr Roosevelt deny it ?. Did he not know at the time that his man Cortelyou was holding upthe trusts for all they _ would "cough up-' for his election "> ' The case- is clearl" stated m the pla (form of the Democratic State 'Convention of Missouri, adopted m 19flfi. which reads as follows.;— "We believe Theodore Roosevelt insincere Pretending to inveigh aga.ir.st the crime? of trusts and I corporations, he openly defend e-d iPaui Morton, when, as manager of ithe Santa Fe Railroad, he was j COMPELLED TO CONFESS j enormous rebates to the Colorado (Fuel and Iron Company. It was ■ Roosevelt who denounced large camjpaign contributions, while his secretary of commerce and labour was fleecing tbe corporations out of one of the biggest slush funds ever known m the history of American politics." The publication of the following letter from Roosevelt to trust-mag-nate Harriman places the President m his true colors before the- American people. It explains his hot haste m condemning Moyer, HayjWOod and Pettibone to the gallows, jand sending Taft to Idaho to

ASSURE 'THE SMELTER TRUST and svain -the protesting people that

the kidnapping of these woL-kingmen was sanctioned by the White -House.

"©ctober 1, 1904.— My Dear Mr [ Harriman.—A suggestion has come to mo ifi a roundabout way thai you de net think it wise to oeme on to see mc m these closing weeks of the . campaign,- but that you are reluctant t©.. refuse, inasmuch as I have asked you. Now, my dear sir, you ahd I are practical men, and you are on the ground, and know, the conditions better than I do. * "If you think there is any danger of your visit to me causing trouble, or if you think there is nothing special I should be informed about, or any matter m which I could give you aid, why, of course, give up' the visit for the timo. being, and then, a few weeks hence, before I write my message, I shall get you to come down to discuss certain Government matters not connected with the campaign. With gr#at regards, sincerely yours, (Signed) "THEODORE. ROOSEVELT." It is m the President's own handwriting m a letter- to Harriman | that wouid never have seen the light m a thousand years had not circumstances forced it upon the attention of a betrayed people. It is ! adroitly phrased, but its meaning is not m doubt. He knew Harriman tben as he knows him nov/ ; wanted his boodle and insinuatingly, coaxed him to sneak to, the White House when no one was looking, and , only after he was discovered did he . denounce Harriman as a liar, and fall into his usual fit of moral epilepsy. Prom now on there will be a sharp decline m the stock of Theodore Roosevelt. The story of President Roosevelt and Paul Morton, if truthfully told, would, make a luminous chapter m railroad rascality and political job- ; bery. It . was tp this notorious strike-breaker and . SELF-ACCUSED CRIMINAL that Roosevelt issued a bill of moral rectitude long as Pole's essay tbat landed him' into the eighty- , thousaml-dollars-a-year insurance graft he now holds down. . There is m this "promotion" the very climax of the irony oi boodle. Paul Morton, who began as a strike-breaker on the C. B. and Q., and roared a monument to theft at Hutchinson,- Kan., and left his trail of crime all the way. from the Mississippi to the Pacific, is fit indeed to be the Cabinet associate and confidential chum of a President who puts him nt the head of the company whose funds were stolen to buy his election. ACCEPTABLE TO. VULTURES. William li. Taft is another of thc elect, and it is easy to understand why Roosevelt has decided to make this . illustrious, .san his successor as President of the United States, and is now grooming him*' with the patrona-rc of the national adminis-tr-_tioji. Taft is a 'man after Roosevelt's cwn heart. ..Among his early, acts rs a jud.gc be fined tho bricklayers of. CUi_c.inn.iti' two thousand, dollars ior going on strike ; he was next" whirled to Toledo by special train,, and', ordered by tho Tckdo, Ann Ar.or and -North Michigan iV; ail road to issue an injunction bindI ing ard Ff.vgij-g its striking enginjeers and' firemen and locking their header up m gaol, and he complied I with o.Licniy. From tbat time on it ; ihas beon smooth sailing for the j [ accommodating n*.d ,?e, and there m ' mot a blontud plutocrat who would I rot hail With ioy the c.lrction ■• of William Taft 'as President ; he j would !:c alxost as acceptable i TO THESE VULTURES ! as Roosevelt himself. ] The manner m which President j Roosevelt manipulates the. Supreme \ Court by bestowing lucrative o:T;ccs j upon the sons and othor relatives j and IrLnds of its dignitaries can i only be hinted at .'here, but will receive due attention later on. Roosevelt can brook no rivalry. He is the self-appointed central luminary m the solar system. All others i must he contented with being firejilies. He must violate all traditions iand smash all precedents. Ke is j spectacular beyond thc wildest j dreams. He must bave tbe centre of ithe stage and hold the undivided j attention of thc audience. Any stunt I will do where the interest lags. A j familiar turd wilh the prize-fighter ior a "gun-man", is always pood for lan encore. Nothing is overlooked. I A flash to Panama with a fleet ox i battkships and a battery of camIcras and a 'squad, of artiste i.**d re- | j porters is .creed . for thousands of columns about the marvellous VIRILITY AND FERTILITY of the greatest President since Washington, He is followed witli minute and eager detail, as he darts from cellar to roof, inspects every shingle, Wears a solemn expression, throws a jsito'-'clful of coal into the • furnace, 'snatches a bite from a workingman's nail, shakes hands with a startled section man. and is ofl like a flash to look .after some other section of tbe r-lanet, tbat it may not drop out of tbe shining orbit. Mighty saviour of Iho human race.