Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1912 — Why They Are Distrustful. [ARTICLE]

Why They Are Distrustful.

Colonel Roosevelt told the people of New Hampshire that when he was president he had said that he "would never consent to the United States not acting toward other nations with scrupulous justice.” And he added: “I have lived up to it.” Perhaps he thinks so, but the utter impossibility of reconciling this declaration with his treatment of Colombia in the Panama affair, which he himseir says he “took” without the authority of congress and certainly without the consent of the nation to which the isthmus unquestionably belonged, is what makes so many of the colonel's countrymen so distrustful of his ability to do Justice or to recognize just dealing when he sees it—Philadelphia Public Ledger, Ind’t.