The Norfolk weekly news. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1888-1900, 1900-10-04


his record in our state this fall against
the ice trust conspracy-tho man who
saved the poor mans babies against the
villains who would see them perish with
Indifference, so long as II paid them II
profit. II would have been instructive
nightly
1t was human that some of the laboring
men should misinterpret Mr.. Roosevelt s
motives when, as president of the police
bonrd, he sent word that he wanted to
meet them and talk strike troubles over
with them. They got it into their
heads, suppose, that he had come to
crawl but they were speedily unde.
ceived. can see his face now, rs he
checked the first one who hinted Mt
trouble. fancy that man can see it,
too-in his dreams,
Gentlemen" said Mr.. Roosevelt, ~
have come to get your point of view, and
SEQ IL we can't agree to help each other
out But we want to make it clear to
damage any working man can do to his
cause is to counsel violence. Order must
be maintained and, make no mistake,
I will maintain It,.
tingled with pride when they
cheercd him to the echo. They had
come to meet n politician. They met a
man, and they knew him nt sight.
1t was after midnight when we
plodded home from that meeting through
snow two feet deep Mr.. Roosevelt was
pleased and proud-proud of his fellow
citizens. They are all right" he said.
1--WE understand each other, and we
shall get along" And they did get
along, with perfect confidence on both
sides
read story when was boy about
man who, pursued by n relentless
enemy, dwelt in security because of his
belief that his plotting could not hurt an
honest man. Mr.. Roosevelt constantly
made me think of him. He spoke of it
only once, but saw him net out that
belief hundred times Mulberry street
could never have been made to take any
stock in it, When it failed to awe
Roosevelt, it tried IS catch him. Jobs
innumerable We're put up to discredit
the president of the board and inveigle
him into awkward positions. Probably
he never knew of one tenth of them.
often made them out long after they
were scattered to the winds. Mr..
perfect unconcern, kicking aside the
snnres that were set so elaborately to
catch him. The politicians who saw
him walk apparently blindly into trap
and beheld him emerge with damage to
the trap only, could not understand it,
They concluded it was his luck. 1t was
after such time that it was matter Of
conviction with him that no frank and
honest man could be in the long run en-
tangled by the snares Of plotters what
ever appearances might for the moment
indicate. So he walked unharmed in it
all Bismarck confounded the councils
of Europe at times by practicing Roose-
velt's plan rs trick. He spoke the
truth bluntly when the plotters expected
him to lie, and rounded them up easily.
One charge his enemies made against
him in which there was truth. 1t
summed itself all up in that with heat
that was virtual acknowledgment of its
there was always fight where he was.
Always trouble. said the peace at.any'
price men, who counseled surrender
when Roosevelt was fighting for de-
cent Sunday through the enforcement,
of the law compelling the saloons tc
close. Never any rest" No! There
was never any rest for the lawbreakers
when he was around, nor for those who
would avoid "trouble" by weakly sur
rendering to them. Roosevelt guagef
New York exactly right when he SCI
about his turbulent program of enforce
ment of law. The scandal was not tina
we We're being robbed by political cut
throats, but that we submitted tamely
The formula we heard so often from hi
lips in the years that followed-honesty
manhood, courage-was the exact pre-
scription we needed. We in the me
tropolis are abundartly able to run tn
robbers out of town and keep them ou
by just following the road he made TO
us when he ran them out of the polio
department. But he made it, fighting
1t was true that there never was an
rest while he was at it, night or day
, When he had battled all day in Mul
berry street, he would sometimes get u
? o'clock in the morning and go out o
patrol to find out the policemen VIII
were stealing the city's time. 1t bt
came suddenly possible to find a polio,
{ man anywhere at any hour of the nigf
4 in Now York. Within year after ii
old Tammany regime had come bacl
? an epidemic of night fires that CO