le his
secretary of commerce and labor was fleecing the corporations out of
_one of the biggest slush funds ever known in the history of American
politics_."

President Roosevelt may shout "liar" until he turns as black in the face
as are the cracksmen at heart who burglarized the safes of the New York
insurance companies to land him in the White House, while he was toying
with the names of "Jimmy" Hyde and Chauncey Depew as pawns in the
corrupt game, but the "damned spot" will not out until the whole truth
is known and the whole crime expiated.

The publication of the Roosevelt-Harriman correspondence places the
president in his true colors before the American people. It explains his
hot haste in condemning Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone to the gallows and
sending Taft to Idaho to assure the smelter trust and warn the
protesting people that the kidnaping of the workingmen was sanctioned
by the White House and would have the support of the national
administration.

A more shameful perversion of public power never blackened the pages of
history.

This national scandal shows up the president's two-faced character so
clearly and convincingly that it leaves not so much as a pin-hole for
escape. It is a damning indictment of not only the president, but the
whole brood of plutocrats, promoters and grafting politicians who have
been looting this nation for years.

There is one among these illuminating epistles which I want to burn in
the minds of the working class dupes who have been bowing in the dust
before this blustering bully of the White House:

"Personal.

"October 1, 1904.--My Dear Mr. Harriman: A suggestion has come to me in
a round-about way that you do not think it wise to come to see me in
these closing weeks of the campaign, but that you are reluctant to
refuse, inasmuch as I have asked you. Now, my dear sir, you and I are
practical men, and you are on the ground and know the conditions better
than I do.

"If you think there is any danger of your visit to me causing trouble,
or if you think there is nothing special I should be informed about, or
any matter in which I could give aid, why, of course, give up the visit
for the time being, and then, a few weeks hence, before I write my
message, I shall get you to come down to discuss certain government
matters not connected with the campaign. With great regards, sincerely
yours,

(Signed) "THEODORE ROOSEVELT."

Does not this brand the president with t