Let us once more warn English readers not to be
so unwise as to take any part in the deliberate attempts that are now being made to degrade Mr. Roosevelt in the eyes of his countrymen, for their inspiration is either personal animosity or else party' feeling in its most debased and exaggerated form, Mr. Roosevelt, rightly or wrongly, is an insurgent within his own party. This is never a popular thing to be in a party- ridden community, and the opportunity has been seized upon for making dishonouring charges by all who hate him. The implication is that a man who would break away from his own party is capable of any wickedness. As a matter of fact, and as every fair-minded man admits who knows Mr. Roosevelt at close quarters, he is in the most absolute and complete sense a man of .honour and of truth. He may be rash in action or lacking in reticence and caution in his language, but of one thing we are certain : he is incapable of meanness or false- hood. Whatever record leaps to light, his honour will be found unstained. "American Exile" and others of his kind think it is safe to kick Mr. Roosevelt because they think he is down. But he is not down. In spite of newspaper vitu- peration, he still holds the hearts of the majority of the American people.
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