The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-08-05
A virtuous President.
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! The Republican Congress, under
standing the Republican President
| very WELL has refused to attack the
trusts in any way.
The food trust is still in the enjoy
ment of the tariff duties which pro.
tect it from competition and preserve
to 1t it's monopoly. The Coal Trust,
existing in open defiance of law and
seeking to destroy union among its
$50 600 workmen, has not been inter-
fered with by the President and his
Attorney General
Does Mr.. Roosevelt think he can OBJ.
scure the significance of these facts
by making gentle verbal attacks on the
trusts in stump speeches?
Words are good if they are backed
up by deeds, and only So
81 have uttered the good words"
Mr.. Roosevelt means by that. "but my
party has failed to give them value
by doing the good deeds that l. as an
exemplar of civic righteousness and
strenuous patriotism, wanted DONE"
The political effect hoped from this
play of DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde is a
dilemma that will bewilder the Re-
publican voter.
1t is hoped that the Republican vot-
er's mind will be made to work in this
fashion:
81 am against the trusts and want
reciprocity with Cuba in accordance
with the demand of national honor.
But my party is owned by the trusts
and obeys them like lackey. 1t has
shown that it cares more for sugar
than it does for the national honor.
Therefore | ought to vote against my
party.
But President Roosevelt says he is
as angry with the party as l am. He
wants to uphold our honor and down
the trusts. Therefore | want to vote
for the President
'If | vote against my bad party, how
ever, | must vote against the good
President. l can't bear to vote against
so virtuous a statesman as he is. Yet
in order to vote for him | must vote
for the party. There's no other way,
But while vote for my party. |
| want it distinctly understood that |
do not approve of it. So, Hurrah for
Roosevelt, no trusts and reciprocity,
and four years more of the party of
the trusts and no reciprocity"
The Republican party is quite willing
to continue to play Mr.. Hyde to Mr.
Roosevelt's DR.. Jekyll, provided the
results promise to be satisfactory The
party can afford to do without APPROVAL
so long as it gets the votes
When the curtain goes down on each
days performance, 1t is not difficult to
imagine the smile exchanged between
DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde nor the fiut-
ter of the eyelid that goes with the
smile.
Mr.. Roosevelt is clever man.
Even his goodness, conspicuous as that
is-and kept bright and shining by
the industry of his own righteous
hands-is inferior to his cleverness as
a politician.
And Mr.. Roosevelt's party, which no
longer can use pretense of goodness
in it's business without exciting nation.
al ridicule, is as clever as he is in
politics. If not good deal more so.
But there is limit to the resources
of cleverness in politics. This Republi-
can play of Jekyll and Hyde passes
that limit.
One about whose goodness there
can be no question, and who was as
wise as good, laid down this political
proposition as automatic:
you can fool all of the people some
of the time, and some of the people all
the time, but you can't fool all the
people all the time"