ntreaties of a shrieking, shuddering woman and see her
dragged into the horrors of electrocution.

The true character of this man is being gradually revealed to the
American people. He has never been anything but an enemy of the working
class. He joined a labor organization purely as a demagogue. In all his
life he never associated with working people. His writings, before he
became a politician, show that he held them in contempt. When he entered
political life he soon learned how to shake hands with a fireman for the
camera and have his press agent do the rest, and it was this species of
demagoguery, the very basest conceivable, that idolized him with the
ignorant mass and gave him the votes of the millions he in his heart
despised as an inferior race.

In his book on "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail," page 10, written long
before he entered politics, Roosevelt reveals his innate contempt for
those who toil. After describing cowboys when "drunk on the villainous
whiskey of the frontier towns," he closes with this comparison, which
needs no comment: "They are much better fellows and pleasanter
companions than small farmers or agricultural laborers; nor are the
mechanics and workmen of a great city to be mentioned in the same
breath."

The pretended friendship for the great body of workingmen who are not to
be compared to drunken cowboys has served its demagogical purpose, but
the final chapter is not yet written. There will be an awakening, and
every official act of Theodore Roosevelt will be subjected to its
searching scrutiny. He has always been on the side of capital wholly,
while pretending the impossible feat of serving both capital and labor
with equal fidelity, and only the deplorable ignorance of his dupes has
applauded him in that hypocritical role.

The anthracite miners, or their children at least, will some day know
that it was President Theodore Roosevelt who handed them over to the
coal trust with a gold brick for a souvenir, labeled "Arbitration."

Theodore Roosevelt is an aristocrat and an autocrat. His affected
democracy is spurious and easily detected. He belongs to the "upper
crust" and at the very best he can conceive of the working class only as
contented wage-slaves. And no one knows better than he how easily these
slaves are duped and how madly they will cheer and follow a cheap and
showy "hero."

The simple fact is that Theodore Roosevelt was made president by the
industrial captains and