"ROOSEVELT, DESTROYER."

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13663, 30 March 1908, Page 3

"ROOSEVELT, DESTROYER."

- WHAT HIS ENEMIES SAY. The attacks on President Roosevelt have become astonishingly 'savage since the panic. "Theodore Roosevelt — Destroyer," in inrge type, 1 is t«o heading of .an 'advertisement, displayed all over America, driving attention to a series of magazine articles in which tho President- *» vibleiitly attacked. Tho American .public, is told that tho Presidents .politics "threaten to paralyse cv.cry, line of legrtimate business — -they threaten your salary, '" your • s&vixigs, your job," that his actions," utterances, and writings "breathe only,. the. thought of destruction— destruction of animal life, of human life, and of the liberty, tho and the "reputations of men." "Should your i child, J " it asKs, "be robbed of its bread' because of the misdeed of a trust or, £ railroad?" In the magazine the editors deride Mr. lloosev^lVs claim' to bo an apbstle of the "square ddal." "Is it the Square DeHl.jwh^n a ' President of, the United States .incites the public into a clamour *tKat winds up in a. panic? Is it the; Square, ijDeal when a President takes' cases oW ofj the courts and trifs them from tlLo^roar, platfor^x of . his tnfi^n ? Is-, -it tli© Square Deal wjjien a President swings and smashes his, y-.bjg ,'. . stick and tears down industries that took, years of patient platform of his train? Is it the S<ju.^re Dp,a). .wjie.n^a President bis high position for personal" vituperation?" A Washington correspondent draws an alarming picture of Mr Roosevelt,,-. exercising^ an a.'ntderatic control of the s*hple American, .press, and declares' thai iSme'i'iean orlitors aro ready ''to xdioct. t,hr.v .glory of, their master j or refrain .from dipping \their pens into anything. but honey. "Theodora Roo^eytjiM;, G^catost - Living Press Agent," 'Js^ the» heading *of aj^ other article. Tlie.New York fixilt assorts that "a more ,coTiF.cieKqele.sß or more reckless, demagogue, iipver, ,ft|filicted this country," and sneers at his recent 35,000-wqrd,- jrnessagn as "the lucubrations of, a *nind unhingjed." Tho last phi'a^e is perhaps- an indication of the value, of theso violent attacks. *.<lf Mr Roosevelt's -. mind is unhinged.'' comment a supporting jottrnftttst, "Cromwell was a imfeeciJe and N«ipoleon died from the effects of paresis." . * ' ' • ' .