Untitled - Almanac of Theodore Roosevelt

124 THE REAL ROOSEVELT.
Congress would meet annually, adjourn as soon
as possible, pass no laws except appropriations
for the running expenses of the Government
and other perfunctory legislation.
In Bryan, it is the much lesser of two evils I
am choosing.
For about half a century the quadrennial elections
of the Republican Party's Presidential and
Congressional candidates have meant the continued
prosperity of the country. Every four
years we have been threatened with Democracy
and disaster.
Now, however, I am sad to say it, we have
had six years of a rich man's panic and one year
of everybody's panic, and the Republican Party
in power, foot, horse and dragoons.
Hence, if you stop to think, it must sound like
very poor logic to say "elect Taft or we will
have a panic. ' ' What have we got now ? It is a
banquet in Hades. It is like telling
the small
boy, with pains in his stomach from eating green
apples, "you must eat more green apples or you
will be sick." "What the boy needs is an emetic
and a change of diet. Politically, that is what
the country needs.
The plain workingman who, during the past
year of the blessed reign of Theodore I., has had