West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-02-05
Mr.. ROOSEVELT ASPREGDENT.

Special Correspondent OF The Argss
And so our ex-senator Wsrley
thinks that in 1904 the country will
be swept by Roosevelt like a cyclonei
That may have an air OF prophecy
TO an eastern man, but to a wcsterner
IL snitfs like the air OF perdition.
IT. is complimentary, no doabt, to
the President; but it is suggestive Of
wind. A cyclone ia just what a
western man don't want to see sweep
over the land
There is q sort OF run d 10 wn- at the
heel hero worship that falls on ito
fscs before any one Who hnppent to
come into the exalta,ion of Office.
The presidency iss pedestal. Any
ordinary man looms thereupon.
Official majesty clothes the presi-
dent. Some there are who thinks
the rsinent Is the man. Besides.
much OF the adul.tion lsvished upon
the president 10 born of detestable
fs~ning-thsre 10 a plum in sight,
an appointment TO be had or held.
But is he just such a one a, should
sweep the country As Mr.. Koose-
welt, certainly not. We're he an
Incumbent OF some common place
ofhonor, were his name Jake, and
his family name Smith, and he had
done up few Filipinos in the fiery
farnace of his fury he would be
dubbed the hcll-roaring, but as he
looms up in the presidential chair
he is the heaven-breathing Theodore.
There is scarcely county in the
United States whose county seat
could not furnish more judicial
raind, self-poised, and more con-
sentative, than is that of Mr.. Roose-
Welt for the discharge of the aoln
and impartial duties Of the prssi-
dency. He is not sslf-contained.
He is man all emotions. Other
men have convictions, Mr.. Roose-
welt eonvnlsionsi From his present
lofty eminence his breathing may
be clouds, his words Thunder, his
glance the lighting; yet the gentle
dew and the April shower of an
equable temperament like that o
Mckinley is what makes fair weather
and inshures the confidence of the
people. Those powerful forces in
human, as in nature generally, are
abnormal powers that below snd
burn away in exhaustion and weak.
ness. The strenuous man is Just as
liable to be blusterer as he 10 TO be
brave. A Don Quixote makes
more ado than Dewey.
A great soul has charity for all,
malice toward none" Not so with
Theodore Roosevelt. Instead Of
,assailing the populists as mistaken
though well-meaning people in 1896,
he stooped to abuse. He described
them as men who wouldn't pay their
debts, who thought it was wrong to
take bath, and who grew green
with envy at the sight of more
prosperous being. And this
was the narrow view OF a man who
now poses as live picture and a
burning shrine for the plain people |
to adore: I, for one, refuse to take
off my shoes. Such narrowness and |
and virulence arc Characteristic of
the cyclone. I let it pass. 1 wish |
to regard him as harmless sort of
Hotspur, safe man out of the high
function of the Presidency.
JUS, now, it seems, he is blowing
hot and blowing cold on the great
vital trust question. He is onto the !
bad trusts, and in with the good |
ones. He will shackle cunning and
down oil the wicked ones. Such
twister in the cyclone line as that,
cannot fool the people in 1904. |
The competitive system either has
to survive or pass away.
To down competition, control |
prices, and combine given line of |
industry under one management, is
the trust principle. II the com
petitive system is right, the trust in
any and every guisc is wrong, no |
matter who the guns be who 20 |
cunning for bad trusts and making
campaign allies OF the good ones.
The trust is a partial combination
for private gain, socialism is uni
versal cooperation for the equal
good Of the brotherhood Of man. |
1t certain lines Of industry can 20 |
on TO successful cooperation for |
the enrichment Of few, the socialist
argues that all lines of industry can
cooperate for the general welfare.
In principle the trust is the arch.
enemy Of G,he present economic |
system. It's doing more to hurry |
up the advent Of the industrial |
commonwealth than any other agen-
cy now al silent work. Mr.. Roose- |
welt lines up with the good trusts. |