Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-11-24
PREACHING AND PRACTICE.


Policy" of President Roosevelt.
The effort was panegyric, couched
in terms exceedingly laudatory Of the
subject OF it, and which we have no de-
sire to criticise, e,-much less to repeat
We select some of its points, how
ever, and hold them up to the clear,
cold light OF fact.
Mr.. Roosevelt is-it was said, sim
cere man. who, as the statesman rather
than the politician, that he is, looks to
see, not what the next election, but
what the next generation, will say.
Mr.. Roosevelt was at one time a zeal
Dus member of the Free Trade
club of New York. He aban-
doned it to ''go with his party at
time when "his party was distinct
ly looking to see what the next elec-
tion" would say, and wes quite obliv-
ious of the next generation"
An eloquent tribute was then paid to
the Rough Riders and "the blood roured
out at El Caney and on the heights OF
San Juan,"--the purpose being declared
even nobler than that which inspired
Gettysburg, in that at the latter our
hosts were battling sel6shly, the infer
ence seemed TO he--for our own inter-
ests, whereas u Cuba we were lifting
IN oppressed people to freedom.
1t is much the fashion, these days,
here at the North, TO apologize for Get
tysburg. But in spite Of this, we ven
ture to recall what Mr.. Lincolns esti.
mate was of the purpose for which that
ganguinary field was fought and won:
''That this nation, under God, shall
have new birth of freedom, and that
government of the people, by the peo-
pie, for the people, shall not perish from
the earth"
Ell Caney and San Juan, on the con-
trary, were fought, as 1t now turns out,
that government of, and by, and for,
Mr.. Oxpard and the beet sugar trust,
shall not perish from the United States,
"a result which Mr.. Roosevelt accepts
with surprising equanimity, or else has
not the confidence of the representa-
tives OF his people with which this ser
mon credits him.
Or. IL the comparative sacrifices
OF the two battles are looked to as q
test of this judgment of the overshad
owing merit of the Rough Riders anO
their putative leader, 1t may as well be
said that our casualties in the entire
Cuban war were 1901, Of whom 26t
were killed. Those Mt Gettysburg were
on the Union side. 23,0a0 and on the
Confederate, 21 ,637, or total of n, $3.50
Mr. Roosevelt was highly compll
mentcd In the sermon for neither hat
ing or fearing combinations of eithel
capital or labor, and for resolutely re
fusing to truckle or become subservien
to either.
1t has already been disclosed by th'
evidence before the anthracite arbitra
tion commission that the coal miners
strike Of 1900 was settled for politica
reason, for which reason an advance o.
10 per cent In wages was conceded
and that reason was that Theodor
Roosevelt might be elected Vice Presi
dent OF the United States.
The commendatlon awarded 70
courage In demanding publicity In trus
affairs is best answered by the fac
that the same arbitration has now beer
adjourned for week, TO enable a simi
lar compromise TO he patched up, Il
order that the books of the coal com
bines, showing their methods, may no
be exposed to the public gaze by fur
ther prosecution OF the inquiry.
Mr.. Roosevelt was greatly applaude,
too. In this sermon. for some utterance
Of recent New York speech OF his, Il
the course OF which he referred I
"craft unaccompanied by conscience,
as Indicative OF the timeserving poll
tics OF the day, and the hearers wer
given to understand that the utterer |
man who practices what he breaches
Graft unaccompanied by conscience
Is exactly personhed in. Josep
II. Clarkson, the "headsman" OF unsas
ory memory under former President
Mr.. Roosevelt In one OF his books
written years ago, compared this CLARK
son to a ''Hottentot;" he was "preacf
ing" then. Lately he has given to tn
same clarkson the most opportlne p,
sition for the exercise OF his peculia
gifts OF Hottentotism-- things col
lidered within the gift OF the feder,
necutive,and one of the most lucrativ