The Democratic party is making a serious blunder in criticizing President Roosevelt's foreign policy. The contention [argument] of the Democratic press and campaign speakers on this subject cannot stand the light of facts. They may take advantage of the general lack of acquaintance throughout the United States with conditions abroad, but when these are known and understood there can result nothing but praise and admiration for the President's policy. . . . We hear much about the "big stick" from Democratic speakers, and yet these orators [speakers] are the ones who would first call for the President's protection if they were in trouble in other lands. The critics that inveigh [protest] against the President's imperialism are the same class of men who would first clamor for the protection of the flag if they had interests abroad which were in any way assailed because of American potency of action.Use the excerpt from an article by John Barrett published in The Daily Palladium on October 27, 1904 to answer the question.Select the text that indicates the author's opinion of Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policies. Select the two correct answers.

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