The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-19
A Most JudiciOus Move.

We noticed with profound reinsurance
brief despatch published yesterday and
originating in Oyster Bay which averred
that the redoubtable Mother JONES
and her ragged army of the downtrodden
would certainly be stopped at New York
and prevented from proceeding further
in the direction of Sycamore HILL 1t was
added that this diversion OF the great
labor agitator was intrusted TO the Secret
Service force and the New York Police
Department.
President ROOSEVELT can be implicitly
trusted to do what is right, The intrusion
of this unseemly if sincere old woman and
her ragged train of property wretched-
ness upon the calm and philosophic hours
of craftsmanship would be nothing short
of scandal. Such an lmpropitious dis
turbance could not fail to excite popu-
lar disapproval and ALLEVIATE the sympa-
thy now so widely extended to the suf-
fering victims Of capital. Admirable as
Mrs. JONES is in her self-abnegation, in
her noble hostility to wealth, in her de-
testation of all sorts Of affluence, and
powerful as is her wel-won influence
with the masses, she is not at this juno
ture, a promising ally. Indeed, it must
be canddly admitted that her appear
ance just now at Oyster Bay would be
exceedingly awkward.
In all matters of this kind the President
always shows his good sense as well as
his innate taste, and he evades disagree
able complications with degree of deli
cacy and discrimination that challenges
the admiration of his friends. When
the professional labor agitators and
walking delegates of Butte, whom the
whole country hold none their equal for
the destruction of property for the ruin Of
capital and for skill with the torch and
the shotgun-when these eminent gen.
tlemen accepted the Presidents invita-
tiGn to visit him at the White House, and
when they named July as the date at
which it would be their convenience to
be his guests. what made them stay at
home? 1t was conceded on all hands
that however delightful, congenial and
profitable their company might be in
Montana, it would, in Washington, be
not unattended with infelicity. They
did not come to the White House. The
President, with that consummate tact
which is alike his great gift and his I'M
failing characteristic, so arranged mat
tiers that the Montana gentlemen were
delighted to stay at home, were relieved
of the tedium of hot and weary journey,
and so gratifled withal at the manner of
the doing OF 1t that it is not too much to
say that it will go hard next year with
that citizen in their bailiwick who would
dare to vote for any other candidate than
the man Of their choice.
So, too, with the worthy but often mis-
guided evangelist Of riot and disorder,
the celebrated Mrs. JONES' She may
deem herself frustrated by the minions
of the Government of the United States,
acting in conjunction with the Janis
sarles of the Police Department of this
city, under orders from Satrap GREENE
telegraphed from the Pacific Slope. Bit
ter disappointment may momentarily
cloud her amiable countenance, but she
will think better Of 1t presently and she
will return to her fastness in the Allie
ghany Mountains, warmer, more
devoted and a more strenuous friend
than ever to our illustrious Chief Magis-
trate.
NAPOLEON the Great prided himself ON
his tact: on those supersubtle intellectual
divagations which he masked with his
cold but alluring smile. WILLIAM of
Germany is held by his millions OF ad-
mirers to be the most tactful man in
Europe. But, as MARK HANNA says,
neither of them is in it with the President.