Show f ROOSEVELT'S APPEAL TO THE THEiS iS i NATION Probably the best estimate of the tho Presidents President's recent message is that it is not a message at all all all- allbut but an appeal apt ap ap- ap f. f t 0 peal to the tho nation Wo We e think that is the clearer dearer characterization We re think the word a appeal v l better belter describes e It 1 Fro From Fron tine tIme to tine tle Tho Republican wants to present to Its Us r readers dc ex tracts from that th appeal of the tho President dent dent Impressive impressive little fragments fragment which hold bold in their lines th the germ of or big truths which we e of th the American republic c cnn can n not afford to toI I ln Ignore 0 re There have been appeals In the past S Where the they wore backed by merit and expressed in fair fall terms the they have hav been effective e Napoleon was master maste of ot the art of it and It-and and much of at hi his success especially in tn the tho Important earl early days is attributable to it No man can measure the tho value o othe of the appeal to loyal loal American manhood manhood man man- manhood hood In the crises of the tho past There was that talk of at John Adams Sink or swim live lire or die survive or perish I give gi my hand and m my heart to this vote ote It ma made e the constitution se so- cure re It made tho republic a Lincoln understood it and every eI sp speech ch ho bo made in the great series o or of Debates with Douglas was as an appeal i ito to his is countrymen Some of then them didn't hear him Some dl didn't nt under under- stan stand But more of them did lid hear and did understand And more of at them responded with splendid courage and fidelity to fidelity to the blessing of the nation The Gettysburg address was an appeal ap ap- ap I peal Grants Grant's Let us have peace was an appeal Garfield's speeches and McKinley's addresses addresses' often had the tile element of an rill appear appeal in them But Dut never ne since Lincoln has the need for an awakening been so evident so pressing Not an honest man in the land will stand up before his fellows and sa say that honesty honest Is la a a. a mistake that deception deception de do- an and rascality is to be com cam mended And yet the people of or the nation had bad grown Indifferent to the demands of right They had grown careless of equity They had been impressed with the power of mone money the value alue of ot success and they were getting money and striving for success success suc sue cess to the exclusion to the ignoring to the tho abandonment of right doctrines In n their hearts they knew they were wrong But the they had l-ad grown absolutely mad with the race race for wealth and md power It was time for the appeal It was as time Lime for the call to arms Like an Invasion the tho malign influence of cupidity and ambition had taken the first fields of the republic Men must repel that invasion Th The President called aloud loud to his bis people That is the message to congress It ItIs Itis Itis is an nn appeal to his people not to turn their backs on II right ht not to ennoble Infamy not to punish righteousness righteousness- not to fling fUng warfare In tho the face lace of ot the everlasting God The Tho President fa Is right t. t His pos position Lion tion is unassailable Jable From it he ho can cannot cannot not be bo moved mo Law must be supreme in this land Right must be recognized recognized recognized as the tho possession Justice must be held sacredly and Securely se se- The Tho nation is responding to the Presidents President's appeal And the answer answer answer- to that message message to that appeal appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal is the splendid one of the poet Gods In His heaven Alls All's well with the world |