Show distortion OF THE TRUTH effort to show that president roosevelt Is a lover of war INSTEAD HE IS FOR PEACE would not encourage or bring brio war and its destructive force forces except to Main Alain the country 5 honor the attempt to make a bogey maa man out of I 1 if res dent roosevelt Roos erelt by misrepresenting blia him as a lover of war and dangerous to the peat peace of 0 the country is doomed to ignominious failure the american people are accustomed cus tomed to size up their public men with ith an art qc accuracy curacy unknown in the tt na us dional I 1 ft is of other countries they have had president roosevelt under their gaz gaze tor for years and they know him well more than that knowing him well as a they do they admire respect and tor or urn him when public opinion bad forced the th war bilth spain upon the americas Ame Amer lear nation theodore roosevelt thea then asuat assist ant secretary of the nary navy was out on ot of the officials of the united states who was prepared for the inevitable LA tiry every other keen observer mr roosevelt had een seen from the incipiency ot at the th agitation lor for american interference ir cuba that the nation must prepare for war in his own office he did all that wa was within his power to get the naty vary ready tor for the part it must play U what hat the naty nary did la Is a part of the able history of our country io no or at claims more than is due to mr koose roose in this connection but to ignore his hi services in the office of at the secretary of the tb naty navy in the early days of 1898 would b be an act of at ingratitude these ices lees hare have been recognized from the boo b ginning and will never be forgotten ills hi var nor career the war opened the one on high pub lie official who resigned his office at th tho j Nit lonal capital to take up arms arras tor for hla his country a bas as theodore roosevelt Roos erelt 11 II raised his volunteer regiment and went went with it to santiago da de cuba tb the rest is history colonel rooseve t entered upon the th duties and hardships of war var with all the enthusiasm of 0 a brate brave and slid generous nature he ire took good care of his men mail and fought at their head when the tim time of battle came after the war taa was over he came home the idol of the american amerlean people we had known him as a sterling citizen as a city off lelal work ing for the upholding of the laws as a national official urging and enforcing the th merit system in the united states civil service as assistant secretary of the nary preparing hips ships ammunition and men for the chance chances of at war and now ha he had volunteered for the army bad led bis his men in so dierly fashion had bad with stood the baat sm am of battle and proved his right tt tb be called a hero of war la in defense of bis big country 9 word and honor that Is all there Is 1 to the war story colonel was elected GOT gov arnor of new lork ork and in that position he again d demonstrated to hi big country men hit his common tease sense his true democracy 0 of f feeling h 3 justice honor and his hi benim tor for affairs aheu hen he be was urged for the vice presidency he be demurred naturally nat orally enough but when the tok voice of the people became loud load and insistent he obeyed traded trusted as a president when he cam come to the presidency the tb people withheld but only for a moment f time their full allegiance from the rast president roosevelt was trusted never eter once by word or act tince since h he sat at in the presidential chair has president roosevelt Roos erelt encouraged or fostered the th most remote idea of war he lie baa has been interested in improving and strengthen if is our army and navy and in all way ways has shown himself to be a it loyal amed an to big hi country but by uy no chance has ha be he shown toy ay lore love of or desire for war because he bai has no leaning that way 11 II lores loves bis his country he lores loves mankind by what twisting of statements and list distortion of facts by vv what at destruction of truth and letting go of all decency the opposition to president roosevelt has ties raised the charge against him that he h is I 1 kely to taster foster war no one wb who a acquainted with the man mark and his big life lit aa an imagine the scriptural mystery ot of the way of at the serpent on the rock I 1 Is nothing to this puzzle of the th passing moment every word and nd act of theodora theodore roosevelt 9 life makes against the tab falso lews BOW now met et afloat as to the bill ties of his character the president la is is man who loves his country as is only air that man can lore love it who has endured the storm of war for its aale sake for no n or imaginable cause cons sar save alcoa he honor of the country itself and than I 1 lot ut at the tern stern bi ming of congress CoD gresa cou could d or would president roosevelt Roose ini roke rok the ruin rain and misery of war it in a slander upon a man of human nature strong and cultivated intellect and ad proved patriotism to foster and the idle ot of political oat eneal to the effect that h he Is I 1 likely to brina brims about or encourage war there Is n no foundation for the blander slander it la is shameful ham that it should exist or once existing ing should be continued by repe titlow let list us haie bays an end to the silly clamor ing of the mendacious ericksten trick sten upon ibis this bugaboo |