Show A lh eod 11 goosev i mendacious journalism 64 free tram an article tor by thoo Tb tOder r 1 bootle BooT lt in IR tir the vant with the outlook ot at rb h lct 1 cl T bo art re 0 ok tor by lell batter ter copyright Covy right 1 11 1910 by tb outlook company a all 1 to 2 Contri buttas in the NOT new york evening poet posit of friday august 16 26 there appeared in a editorial article the th following state monts 1 I will ait make the corporation corporations corae come to time shouted roosevelt to the mob but did be he not really mean that he be would make them come down with the euh cash to elect him as he did before fw floe a man with mr bir roose felts proved record it la in simply dis fluting guat ing humbug for him to rant about the corporations upon whose treasur in he fawned when he be was president and wanted their money for bis him campaign does he h think that nobody has a memory which goos goes back to the life insurance investigations and that everybody baa has forgotten the tho taken from widows and orphans and added to theodore roosevelt a political corruption fund did he not take a is big check from the beef trust and glad to get it and now he la Is going to make the corporations come to time one can have respect for a bin sla cere radical for an honest fanatic for an agitator or leveler who believes that he 1 Is doing gods will but it la Is hard to be patient with a man who talks bs but acts mean whose eye la Is always to the main chance politically and who lets no friendship no sen gen drosity no principle no moral scruple stand for a moment between himself and the goal upon which he has set bis his overmastering ambition this champion of purity this roar er for political virtue Is the man who was for years when in to bollt acm life band hand in glove with the word joli political of his day vo aho loaded to platt who praised quay who paid court to hanna lianna under him as an president aldrich rose to the height of his power always on good terms with roosevelt Rooi evelt it wae was roosevelt who in isie 1916 wrote an open letter urging the election reelection re of speaker cannon against whom mutterings had then begun to rise it was roosevelt who asked liar har banan to come to the white house secretly who took bis his money to buy votes in new york and who afterwards wrote to my dear sherman 1 yea yes the lame same sherman reviling the capitalist to whom he bad had previously written saying you and I 1 are practical men 1 the evening post Is not in a itself suf important to warrant an an awer but as an representing a class with whose hostility it Is necessary to reck reek on in any lay genuine movement for decent government it Is worth while to speak of it there are plenty of wealthy people in im this country and of intellectual hangers on of wealthy people who are delighted to engage in any movement for reform which does not touch the wickedness of certain great corporations and of certain men of great wealth people of this class will be in favor of any aesthetic movement they will favor any movement against the small grafting politician against the grafting labor leader or any man of that stamp but they can not be trusta th h that the reform llor sufficient dimensions to jeopardize so mach of the established order of things ra gives an unfair and improper advantage to the great corporation po ration and to those directly and in directly responsive to its wishes and dependent upon it the evening post and papers of the same kind and the people whose views thy depre represent bent would favor attacking a gang of small bosses who wish to control the re publican party but they would as the evening post has shon far rather see these small bessei win than see a movement triumph which alms not merely at the overthrow of the small political boea boas but at depriving the of its improper influence over politics depriving the man of wealth of any iLd advantage vantage beyond that which belongs to him as a simple american citizen they would bo against only atter after such corporations had been caught in the crudest cru beat klud mud of criminality I 1 have hare never for one moment count ed upon the support of the evening poet post or of tho hose te whom it represents in the effort for cleanliness and de bency within the republican party because the evening post would au aufort tort such a movement only on an condition that it w not part of a larger movement mo tt fur the betterment of octal con mons but this Is not all in the struggle for honest politics there la in no more a place for a liar than there Is for the thief and in a movement de signed to put an end to the dominion of the thief but little good can be derived from the assistance of the liar of course objection will be made to ay my use of this my answer Is that I 1 am using it merely cally and descriptively and because no other terms express the facts with the nece precision in the ar jet in to the evening pod comes to the defense of those in present con arol of the republican party in new york tate state whom it baa has affected to oppose in the past the evening poet P oa t through whatever editor personally wrote the article practiced every known form ot of mendacity probably the evening poet post regards the deta decalogue logue as outworn but if it it will turn to it and read the eighth and ninth commandment commandments it will see thit that bearing false witness la in condemned aa an strongly as an theft itself to take but one instance Ini tance out of the many in thie this article the evening pest post aya says it was roosevelt Rooe evelt who asked harraman Harrl man to come to the white allne secretly who took bis his morey to buy but totes la in new york and who ho afterwards wrote to my dear sheman yee yes the same sherman reviling the capitalist to whom he be had previously written say ing you and I 1 are practical men not only ia Is every important statement in this sentence false but the writer who wrote it knew know it waa was false As an far as I 1 was concerned every man visited the white house openly and mr harriman among the others I 1 took BO no money from mr harriman Harrl man secretly or openly to buy votes or tor for any other purpose whoever wrote the article in the evening post in question knew that this was the foul eat est and basest lie when he wrote the sentence for he be quotes the aade let tor in which I 1 had bad written to mr harriman as follows what I 1 have to say to you can be said to you as well after election ae as before but I 1 would like to see you some time before I 1 write my message I 1 am quoting without the letter before me but the quotation Is substantially if it not ver tally bally accurate that statement in to this letter I to harriman Is in of course on ita its face absolutely incompatible with any thought that I 1 was asking him for campaign funds for it Is of course out of the question that I 1 could tell him equally well what I 1 bad had to say may after election if it it referred in any possible way to getting money before election this Is so clear that any pretense of misunderstanding understanding mie ie Is proof positive of the basest dishonesty la in whoever wrote the article in question As an a matter of fact when mr harrl man called it was to complain that the national committee would not turn over nver for the use of the state cam in which he was interested funds to run that campaign and to ask me to tell cortelyou to give him aid for the state campaign mr cortelyou Is in familiar with the facts in other word words the statement of the evening post Is not only balme and mall clous CIOUs Is not only in direct contradiction cont radle alon of the facts but Is to such that it could only have been made by a man who knowing the facts deliberately intended to pervert thema such an act stands on a level of infamy with the worst act ever performed by a corrupt member of the legislature or city official and stampe stamps the writer with the same moral brand that stamps the bribe taker I 1 have seen only a telegraphic abstract of the article apparently con quotations from it practical ly every statement made in these quotations Is a falsehood to but one more shall I 1 allude the article speaks of my having attacked corporations and referring directly to my ohio speeches of my havin having 9 ought sought to inflame the mob and make mischief in those ape echel the prime stand I 1 took waa was against mob violence as shown by the labor people who are engaged enraged in controversy with a corporation my ay iy statement was wa in effect that the first duty of the state and the first duty of the officials was to put down disorder ds order and to put dorn donit mob violence and that after such action bad had been taken then it was the duty of off icIaN to investigate the cor po oration ration and it if it had dane wrong to make it pay the penalty of its wrongs and to provide against the wrongdoing in the future it la Is but another instance Ini tance of the peculiar baseness baness the pec peculiar tillar moral obliquity of the eye evering post that it should pervert thi the truth in so shameless a fashion THEODORE ROOSEVELT cheyenne Cht yenn wye wyo august IT 27 isio 1110 |