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World's Letter to the Presi dent. In an open letter to the President, dished on Saturday last, the New World powerfully sams up the tes of the campaign as the person y of Theodore Roosevelt. The "World says in part. ?he paramount issue of this cam? paign is not, *as you would have it, "free trade or free silver, but you your? self--Theodore Roosevlt. This issue is forced upon the country by your unusual temperament and tal? ents-your own strong, able, ambi tiuos, resourceful, militant, passion ;e personality, your versatile and ing genius - | *' * * You have glorified war and threaten? ed the future peace of the country by proposing a bullying overlordship of ike other countries in this hemisphere and offering'' to constitute the United States the constable and collector Jor Europe in the rotten and irre? sponsible States of Central and South America. < * * ^ * You have, by your recommendations to Congress, and your signature to its extravagances, increased the national -expenditures during your term to store than $2,500,000,000-an excess of $211,000,000 over the expenditures buring President McKinley's term {which included the expenses of the war with Spain), and exceeding the.; cost of President Cleveland's second ' term by $880,000. You and the Congress of your party have converted a surplus of ?80,000, 000 in 1900 into a deficit of more than ?0,900,000 for the fiscal year just clos? ed. * . * * . In view of this surpassing record of j extravagance, it is perhaps, not strange, but will be regarded by the taxpayers as significant, that the words "economy,9 * " retrenchment' * and 'reform/' once the rule of the nation ' the shibboleth of statesmen, do once appear in your entire, speech acceptance-not once! I* * * The principle of protection has been maintained by every party that bas held power in this country since the adoption of the Constitution, includ lag the administration of eight Demo? cratic Presidents. Representative Clark, chairman of the St. Louis Con? vention, truly said that "the Demo? cratic party is not a f/ee trade party." Protection, however necessary under some conditions, is both needless and unjust when infant indutries have be? come hoary monopolies. . It is especial - Jy oppressive and exasperating when perverted to enable favored manufac : tarers to maintain arbitrary high . prices in the home market while un C derselling foreign competitors in the markets of the world. The free coinage of silver, which was the decisive issue in the last two elections, is no longer, a living ques . tion, though there are indications, in yonr speech that you will seek to re vive it. The overwhelming verdict of the people, regardless of party, in the last two elections ; the law of ;.v 2900 le?tabiishing the gold standard ; the enormous increase in the world's ; production of gold ; the fact that no party and no public man of importance, siot even Mr. Bryan, is now advocat? ing free silver; and, beyond all. the declaration of your opponent, Judge Parker, that he regards the gold stand? ard as * 'firmly and irrevocably estab? lished"-a declaration unreservedly accepted by the St Louis Convention by a vote of 774 to 191-afford cumu? lative proof that the silver issue is dead and buried past resurrection. . - . * * * You boast that your policy is " to do ly&ftir as? equal justice to all men, pay ?iig no heed to whether a man is rich ' er poor." Can it be mainlined that a tariff " law ) which enables favored % 3Eacufacturer?, in return ior big cam? paign contributions, to levy tribute . o?a the whole body of the people as an ^example of "fair and ?equal justice?." Who represents anti-monopoly and the .lights of labor inyour Cabinet? Is it Secretary of the Treasury ShaWj the banker, who preaches that high prices :.nae a blessing-or Attorney-General r5?oody, who has not lifted a finger to enforce the anti-truBt laws?-or Sec? retary of the 2?avy Morton, lately a ^Blice-presideat of the Santa Pe Railroad na ally af the Beef Trost Qr sec* letary cf Dottttere* and T abor Met? A^l political representative of the ffotitb'ttn PaCi&c Railroad?-or Post? iaiftt?r>General Payne, long the legis? lative and lobby agent of railroad and Other corporations? Do these acts of yours give ve rv strong backing to your words assert? ing equal regard for all classes? Toe say of the "great organizations Jcsown as trusts," that "we do not have to expain why the laws against them were not enforced, but to point oat that they actually have been en? forced." This will be news, indeed, to the victims of the unpunished and unhampered Beef Trust and the other "conspiracies in restraint of trade" ?sich continue to striae competition and to rob consumers in defiance of -Mw. * * * "Mr. Cortelyou, formerly private secretary, was at the bead of the De? partment of Commerce just long ssough to acquire by "diligent invest -igstion" such information as would he useful to the finer of your cam? paign chest The public does not i sitare this information. There i* no evidence that the law officers of the government are making use of it to suppress and punish such odious and oppressive monopolies as the Beef 3a*at-which control the great por? tion of the meat supply of 80,000,000 people. But ex-private and ex-public Secretary Cortelyou-Chairman Cor? telyou of your Campaign Committee no doubt knows all that the law en ?Med him to learn of the inner work? ings of the potential campaign con ?fcotow!" * * ? Sta boast that "never hait the ad? ministration of the government been sn a cleaner and higher level." We qBpeal toal! honest men whether-in ito annals of oar government there mm* ever a grosser abuse of power, a ?seater public scandal or a more un principled defiance of decent public ^pinion than is this transfer of an offi &a\ investigator and cur ber of great corporations to be a collector of cam 3*gB funds from them ! * * * "You sty that yon 'earnestly desire friendship with all the nations of the and Old Worlds,' and that you tMnk 'peace is right as well as ac tageous." Can you wonder that people find it hard to recogniz these pacific utterances the \too?* they have known hitherto? A s time ago, in urging the creation c evea.larger navy, the advice you for the guidance of the nation 1 'Speak softly, but carry a big sti Is the man who habitually does generally 'seeking peace?" Do think that the other nations of New World thought that you. as I ident of this republic, really 'des peace and friendship' with them v, you wrote in your letter to the Cc dinner? ?"Any country whose peoples cone themselvesv well can count upon hearty friendliness. If a nation sh that it knows how to act with dece in industrial and political matters it keeps order and pays its obligate then it need fear no interference f the United States. Brutal wrong iug or an impotence which results the general loosening of the ties civilized society may finally reqi intervention by some civilized nat i and in the Western Hemisphere United States cannot ignore its dut Is not this unmistakably a th] that if any of the republics of Cen) or South America fails to "act w decency"-you being the judge-or it fails to "keep order and pay its ligations" (as some of the States our Union haye failed to pay), "need fear no interference from United States".; but that if any or of these States fail to live up to y< standard of order and morah "civilized society may finally requ intervention," and that then " United States cannot ignore its dutj Our faith in the intelligence, 1 common sense and the conscience the American^people is too great believe that they will give a comm sion for four years in his own na to the chance pilot who is now he; ing the ship of state toward the roi upon which other republics have be wrecked-tolerated usurpations by 1 Executive; warlike adventures gain and glory; contempt for la privileged classes sustained by el ec ti bribes ; corruption in high places a extravagant expenditures from un j; taxes. Honor and prudence alike : quire a change of pilots and a reta to the chart of the Constitution, the rule of law and the flag of a pea< loving republic. This is a powerful arraignment the acts and tendenccies of Preside Roosevelt's administration, and it h received the unqualified end?rseme ,of such Democrats as Wheeler J Peckham, George Foster Peabod Edward N. Sheppard and Judge Rog A. Pryor of New York. The Dem eratic party has a great and importa mission to fulfill at the next electio When the issue between four mo years of Roosevelt or four years safe, sane and constitutional gover ment, is fairly presented, as it wi be, long before the election, there little doubt on which side the ind pendent vote of this country will arra tself. THE OUTLOOK IS NEW YORK. Situation Declared Hopeies Jc Republicans With Mr. Root as a Candidate. . Not even ?Elihu Root can save tl State of New York to the Republi< ans this year. President Roosevel according to a generlly believed re port, has besought Mr. Root to tas the nomination for Governor, and tb leaders of the Republican organizado join their pleadings to those of th President. They know that the Presi deutial candidate is going to need hel ia this State, and they with one ac cord turn to Mr. Root as the most pow erful auxiliary force they caninvoke. Mr. Root would be a strong can didate-probably the Republican lead ers are right in their belief that h would be their strongest. But hov could he help Mr. Roosevelt? This i the President's home State? He is, o course, far better known than ?be ex Secretary of war. The public hav voted for him before and elected him Surely he ought to call cut the ful party vote and run ahead of all othe candidates on the Republican ticket in which case he might help the Guber natorial candidate, though it is difB ?ujt to see. fcow tu6 Gubernatorial can didftte- could help faim. We suppos? nothing could help him. Governor Odell has inspired the peo pie with so deep a distrust of the Re publican organization that even if thii were to be an ordinary Governorship ?lection without the Presidential com plication, any Democrat worthy of th< office would probably be elected. Bui j to the popular resolve to turn out Mr, Odell's party must be added thc im measurable force of the Democrat re awakening. The party is not only united, but ii has a candidate who at the very begin ning of the contest visibly stirs its en thusiasm> and Whose rugged strength of character and sound opinions wil more and more arouse keen interest and admiration as the campaign pro ceeds. With the heavy handicap o? Governor Odell's record-and he if the time adding to the difficulties ol his party by the scandal of his double function as chief executive of the State and chairman of a partisan com? mittee-and contending against thc formidable strength of Judge Parker'! uniting candidacy. Roosevelt anc Fairbanks seem to be doomed to lose the electorial vote of New York ; anc1 with the electors goes the Governor? ship, even if Mr. Root should be the candidate. Since the executive power of the State is expected to come to the Dem? ocrats they must put up a candidate worthy to wield it. The high quality of the Presidential nomination lorbidi them co descend to the walks of com* mon politics for a name. There is a chance once more to choose a Demo erat of brains and character, bound tc no faction, hampered by no alle? giances, who will poli every vote within the party and many more. The stories from Esopus about the "demands" and "conditions" laid down by Mr. Murphy, of Tammany, upon the occasion of his visit to Judge Parker never had any better founda? tion than the gossip of small Tammany politicians. They are, of course, untrue, ? and have been authoritatively denied. 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