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Show ROOSEVELT AND THE MESSAGE. Portland Oregonlan: "Mr. Roosevelt's special spe-cial message to congress is one of the most powerful pow-erful pieces of political eloquence in the English Eng-lish language. It contains passages which will be read with passionate approval by mature and recited with flaming hearts by ambitious youth long after the president has ceased from his fight with the powers that prey and others havo taken up the weapons for liberty and Justice Jus-tice which he wields so potently and manfully. It breathes the spirit throughout of clear perception per-ception and undaunted courage. He discerns with unerring accuracy tho meaning and extent ex-tent of the struggle which is on in this country between the forces of predatory wrong and the forces of common rlflht, and he strides into the fray without fllnchlog. Mr. Roosevelt has ever dreamed of compromise com-promise with those Insidious enemies of the republlo who endeavor to make their success an excuse for their crimes against morality and law.he has thrust that dream from bis thoughts. ' If he ever dreaded the consequences to trade which might flow from the inflexible pursuit of justice and the unmasking of gilded wickedness wicked-ness he dreads them no longer, In this great utterance the servile creature crea-ture who Uvea upon the favor of the pirate corporation cor-poration and earns his vile livelihood by making himself the mouthpiece of their mendacity or the instrument of their soda) treason will see nothing but a cunning move in the game of politics. To his base vision this noble monument of eternal justice will appear as nothing more or better than a deft Intervention for Taft and against Hughes. Mr. Roosevelt is a superb-politician. superb-politician. Tl.at Is one reason why his enemies hateliltn. .Were his ambitions alien to the popular will, they could ruin him by calumny. Were he less than a master of masters In the sword play of politics, they would have given him the death stab long ago, and, seating some compliant tool In the Presidential chair, would have completed their schemes to establish a plutocratic oligarchy and make the American people forever slaves to the evil hierarchy of Mammon. Aa a politician Mr. Roosevelt is Incomparably Incompar-ably superior to his enemies, but that Is the smallest of his advantages over them. To them the common man is but a clod to be trodden trod-den under foot, a sheep to be shorn, a beast of burden to be workedsout aod cost upon, the dunghill. But Roosevelt, like Lincoln, sympathizes sympa-thizes with the common man. He knows the heart of the people, he hears the cry of their wrongs and burns with indignation against their oppressors. |