Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — NO DODGING OF ISSUES [ARTICLE]

NO DODGING OF ISSUES

ROOSEVELT SHOULD DROP THE OLD CATCH-VOTE PHRASE.

Thinking Men Never Evade the Vital Questions and Colonel Is Only a Trailer.

"We are a great industrial people. We cannot longer escape facing the questions that necessarily arise with the growth of modern industries,’' said Colonel Roosevelt at Springfield, 111. The same old catch-vote phrases. Is there a thinking man who has any desire to evade the vital questions of the hour? Does the ex-president know of anybody who is dodging the issues which are before us every hour of every day? We Could not escape them if we would. For a score of years the solution of the problem created by capital and labor has engaged the highest thought and best endeavor of some of the brightest and most disinterested minds in the country. When Roosevelt was denouncing Socialists as enemies of the government they were earnestly striving for a better understanding between those who employ and those who toil. Ten years ago William Randolph Hearst was advocating the very same “principles” for which the chief Bull Moose says he himself now stands, and was denounced “as the last word in yellow.” When consistent Progressives were first aroused to the urgent and exacting needs of our complex civilisation, those needs were sneered at. How it must gall those brave pioneers to have all the fruits of their patriotic labors stolen and to hear the larceny applauded by the throng 1 Mr. Roosevelt is not a leader—a pathfinder. He is a trailer, but he makes so much noise that many otherwise reliable people regard him as the leader, of the band. ,