The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1903-09-18
An Extinct Volcano

: NeE Orlesns Tin~s-Deuaocrat.
Ahen President Roosevelt !
impetu-usly and boldly announ,
II his determination TO 90 10 II
bottom of things and ferret out a
of the superabundant rasoalIt
and Yenaliiy which seems to hav
. marked the Republican admini.
uation OF the government tor som
Y ars past. hope was felt-no
very sangUlue, it Is true. for th
people have heard such talk frou
! Republican sources too often to %
easily misled that his professe,
zeal would result in bringing {,
Justice some OF the more import
ant Of the offenders. True, some O
the larger fry have been forced !,
resign, and there is a sort of per
functory zeal exhibited ia som,
cases IS here 1t is almost certain {
congressional Inquiry viii be ia
siltuted, but Il seems 10 tne o0
4 servant citizen that ail The ire bes
been taken out of the President :
announced purpose t. Jet no guilty
man escape tbe volcano which
Was IN q state IF active eruption a
lew short months 400 is practical
Is extinct now. and even tue poiit
teal lava II then emitted has either
cooied-eDtirely or found mes
vent in an entirely different GUAR
ter.
How much the discovery thaf
his former classmate and latei
/ chum was violating the Federa
law, which forbid5 members @.
congIess from holding govern
ment contracts for personal gain
bad 70 do vith dampening the ar
ddT of this strenuous reformer i
more than we can say: 1t does an
/ pear certain. however. that sine.
the fime of the lyon Littau,s
scandal the aimiuution of the pre-
ldentiai indignation ha- been s.
noticeable is To raise the suspicion
bat much OF bis negro policy da
oeen shaped with d view TO castIn.
,be official thievery into tn
hadow of race and secGouel hat
red which has been revived and IN
.ensi6ed by his studied effort. Auo
hat revival of sectional and race
antimosity was ia direct antag0n
.sm 10 bis professed purpose wbe,
ne succeeded to tie place mad,
vacant by the death OF Presid
Mckinley He then announced
that ho would devote the remain
Ter 81 tha n~e~ifieniial term - ear
rylug Cut tBc pouCie< iuaUAur'.5.ss.
oy the late President "a promis,
he has fulfilled by either revers
ng them or letting them reiaps
INTO quiescence for lack Of fsupp0rt
from himself Ia the South he ha.
.bsoIuteiy reversed tbe Alckinie,
9oliey ot his predecessor. whicl
ought to encourage and promot.
peace and good wlIi %, tween the |
sections and the races; and today |
mere IL more friction and q great
n tension on tins account tha |
las existed since the carpt l. b.g |
gers were in the saddle IA the |
south
it is but FAIR 10 add that thero IS
ONE room for surprising tlai
ghou Mr. Roozeye.i held oul those
oseat5 promises be had 20 honest
nj ntion % carry on, .hr policies
1e announced iee FIRST ciauue b.
leart followed sNitt upon the het q
II the Booker Washington dinner |
pi=ode. sud the consequent fail |
lre Of MS plan to build UP In tue
south white Republican party |
Tins was bi1hly cherished aIm
II Teddy, and lis failure cu3 |
tin t0 the core II failure at'ri
luleb.e ia SINAI. degree ,o ais
'wn mis- take ~ upposius shat 81
.ause Che Southern press SPOKE
veil ~ Booker Washington. Size
southern people were in a iram
vi mind 50 welcome with apqrooa (
iou sn exhibition # racial social
quality AZ tie White House 4
nan bettcr acquainted With South
.rn conditions would never have
alien into an error of this sori
3ut MIR Roosevelt seems To- have
clt ever since the political bluud
If Was committed that be has a
ause Of grievance against I'll
Southern people aua he has
.egleeted uo opportunity to make
hem feel the weight of his dis
,leasure
The truth is, however. that IL
ndeavoring to puaish the South
10 account Of "a politcai biander
i bis own. be Is proving TO the
.oIld that his views are narrow.
rs policies dictated by purely sci
sh considerations. and b IS an
Die 10 draw the obvious distinct
Oh between obstinacy and proper
onsistency-that he isproue to be
o4erned in bis actions more by :
impulses aud pr jadices
1an by considerations of state
raft and good government Eth
r he is too obtG4e 81 ds-curn lbe
ifference. or too obstinate TO b.
wayed in his cause o. motives OF
higher nature than the gratiii.a-