The Outlook 1914-07-11

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The Outlook JULY 11, 1914 LYMAN ABBOTT, Bditor-in-Chief HAMILTON W. MABIE, Associate Editor R. D. TOWNSEND, Managing Editor MR. ROOSEVELT RESIGNS FROM THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE OUTLOOK HE WILL CONTINUE TO CONTRIBUTE SPECIAL ARTICLES ON CURRENT QUESTIONS The following letters not only announce the retirement of Mr. Roosevelt from his editorial connection with The Outlook, but outline his. plan of political activity in the coming campaign. Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, June 29, 1914. My dear Dr. Abbott : I hope I need not tell you how very deeply I have appreciated my connectior with The Outlook during the last five years. You may perhaps recall what I wrote at the outset of this connection in giving my opinion of The Outlook and the reasons why I was glad to be connected with it. My experience during these five years has justified every word I then wrote. It has been a help—indeed I may say that it has been an inspiration—to be asso- ciated with you and my other colleagues in the work of The Outlook. If I had been able to be, as I expected to be, a man entirely removed from all participation in active politics, nothing would give me keener pleasure than to keep on in the future exactly as in the past. But the developments of the last three or four years have rendered it imperative that I should take a more or less active part in trying to’secure in the Nation and in the several States the triumph of those principles embodied in the Progressive platform of 1912. What- ever I can do, for instance, to aid in the elimination of men like Mr. Penrose, Mr. Murphy, and Mr. Barnes from control of our political life, I must do. In addition, I now feel that I am in honor bound to stand in strong opposition to the Administration. I feel that as re- gards our international relations the policy of the present Administration has meant the abandonment of the interest and honor of America. Furthermore, I feel that within our own boundaries the course pursued by the Administration has meant the abandonment of every sane effort to secure the abatement of social and industrial evils. Its legislative and executive programme has brought about grave industrial depression and suffering to busi- ness man, farmer, and wage-worker alike, although perhaps most of all to the wage-worker. Having to do this political work, it has become impossible for me to give the time neces- sary to carry out my duties as a member of the editorial staff of The Outlook. Accordingly, with the deepest regret I hereby resign from that position. I am most sincerely sorry to sunder my editorial connection with The Outlook. My personal connection with you and your colleagues will always remain one of close and intimate friendship. If you care to have me do so, I shall be glad to continue as a special contributor ‘to The Outlook, giving 569