| Show 1 1 II TIlE THE I l lIE ng ABANDONED J l 1 If H f the Roosevelt program be abandoned h by the peo- peo pie of or the United States the doctrine that the rich can I t 37 2 do llo no wrong will become fore forc cr er established f J- J If Ii tho ho Roosevelt program be bc abandoned the rule will wm find general acceptance too strong for Cor combating t thal that might makes es right that the powerful need give Hive no noi It P i explanations that the the weight of or a mans man's purse will m meas'S meas- meas asIt as- as S 'S ure ur the extent o of a mans man's power that thai established cd wrong 1 may tn not b be challenged cl and that absolute right tinI un un- I backed by an army armr may w wall U 11 its Hs soul awn away in II V hIp for t more titan than half a century the ten tendency enc of this C country has been to th the acquiring of oC riches itches The senti- senti l ml ll nt mt-nt that monc money was an essential grew gorow so greatly that S up ur to to to the time Theodore Roo Roosevelt became a power in j S th tho till nation the u man man was stronger c. c than titan an any other otherS S man mah of or equal mentality and Certainly stronger than the theman man mait with hess lc's f lots money fit J S rhe nation had come to the place where fortune V r 7 7 5 5 was wast at t a premium and und simple manhood suffered Its t l' l y unequal lal bin burden hunlen den In silence i 8 o effective e had become that insl insidious l us In influence of off S f money oR value that men n grew grow blu blunted t l In their mora moral x ten senses es I They did not havo have the respect for law that their theirS 1 S fathers hod taught laught them theta that their thell mothers had helped d dr r i S J to teach There Thero was a Yel very general idea that thal I If it a man manS mant t S could coul escape prison he could not bo be criticised i that 1 if t t. S he lie could e escape cape being caught he was secure 2 A J 10 logical result lt was a con condition In which men were unequal before the law Jaw And the equality of or all nil menI men mer I Is something which the founders of the he government J S fought something for COI which m many ny a patriot died for tor which millions of or burdens have havo been n borne The great greaL lesson Jesson of Theodore Hoo Roosevelt's pUblic life has been that thaL no man Is greater than n the thc law has that tha J all men have ha equal rights lights that wealth does docs not comS commissIon commission commission com com- S mission any ono one to do wrong that theft then thenIs Is theft no m noS S how prominent tho the thief may be hc that a lie He i ia is a lie He no matter how famous the liar ma may be He has tau taught ht the people to respect honesty am and andI I to oboy law He lie has lone done more than that for he ha has hasS S taught tho those thoe e who were cre willing offenders that thc they will wll I have Ja Jae e to obe obey tho the law whether or not they want to I j It Is worth more to tho the people of ot the thc republic t to have J learned the Je lesson on of ot Roosevelt elt than to havo have capi captured captured cap cap- i a continent All the llio victories of oC tho the Hew Revolution I from rom Concord to Yorktown were not more moro important to the nation more effective for good in the life of or th the I I republic than titan the hue un universal concession of tho the square Henl for f or e ever ory e l' l one This has haH been heen the tho victory of S velt lt Because uso ho hue has from front bo boyhood hood granted a a. square squar deal 11 to 10 every ono one with whom he ho camo caine in touch because be bo cause ho has ha exacted that thaL from front every one because h hhas ho hoh hohas h has In his converse converse with men and arid with forces t 7 no ItO ones one's right to more than a square deal or oz tried tile I to give an army any one erie less Jess than a square deal tho the nation nullon ha hns accepted his doctrine as its own I Now not oven even a n President can cnn stan stand firm for th the enforcement of equal rights to all without off offending end In Inthe th the magnate who have havo been enjoying something om more mor than titan they wore ero entitled to In the tho years when o cU and aggressive men seeking all nil they could got get w were ser rc pushing their energies to the limit of accomplishment it became increasingly l ea easy for Cor a rich man to go get t richer and increasingly more difficult for fOI a poor 1001 poorman man to l keo keep pp from being made poorer And when tho the President disturbed lIs- lIs tin bed tho those o e conditions ho lie made opponents of oC the clement element doment ele do- ment that had been heen enjoying unequal favors fa The They ca canot can cannot not proceed with their unjust acquisitions against th the opposition of or a a. stron strong President who President ho is also o as Informed in informed In- In formed as Mr noo Roosevelt e hl lifts shown hown himself to be The They can cnn not stem slem the thc tide of a rising pen sense en e of oC national inspired h by so powerful PO an official and Joyfully accepted by the many millions of or the honest and producing men and anti women of the nation And because the they lucy want vant more mor than luau equal rights more than the square deal the they ar are arc I against the President against his policies and a against any man whom ho may favor or as ns his successor in office omee Now cr c every ery state stale In the Union may have havo a man whom it would like to 10 see sec in tho the Presidential chair Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps half a a. dozen states do 10 have ha such favorite son sons But aside from that the general objection to the admin admin- the main maui rea reason on for fighting Roosevelt Roose comes comet from com a hostility to the square deal from a s sympathy with wilh the men inert of special privilege privilege from from the tho very forces to which the genius of oC the republic Is opposed And if iC these un American then men can cnn discredit Pr sl- sl dent noo Roosevelt can destroy the public confidence in him the tho public support of or his 8 policies policies' th they y will havo have won wor their victory Ictor for special privileges for Cor rights to th the thc rich which are arc denied tho poor and for the tho doctrIne that the law ma may bo ho violated b by tho ho powerful and amI rigIdly rig rig- l Idly ly enforced enforce 1 only against the tho defenseless The people do 10 not want tho Roosevelt program abandoned The They do 10 not so much care caro who Is tho the next President but bit the they do not want his selection to express S a i slap In iii the face for Roosevelt Jhc They will loyally give o their heir support to an any man elected b by the tho people of tho the United Unile 1 States but hut thc they certainly propose that lint ho shall shah not be le a map man whose whoso election means tho the end of the tho square deal |
