The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02
A strenuous summer Vacation.
President Roosevelt is believed

by many to be the best skilled ex..
pert on the face of the earth, OF
any other member of the Solar
System today in the fine art of rid
inc horses, and it is the firm opin-
ion with q large number of people.
in the Western States especially,
that he could ride horseback the
widest untamed Broncho ON his
head all day if he chose. and with
that same fiery steed match any of
the most daring and neck breaking
performances over seen in the cir
GUS ring, where the old plugs are
usually padded. and amble about
over the sawdust in a most grand
motherly way.
But with all his hippodromic
skin it is said that he is beginning
to encounter serious dfioulty in
his latest attempted feat of riding
the two wild horses, Capital and
Labor. While they went on the
long stretches of the course and
cantered along at a reasonable gait
it y as well enough. but as they
warm up and approach the turns,
and whirl about and go in different
directions the stunt bristles with
difficulties.
Now the accidental President
has good intentions, NO doubt.
His Irish English Scotch North
man-New England Italian-H High
Dutch and Low Dutch ancestry,
and his Protestant Roman Catho-
lic-Lutheran- Dutch Reformed and
Broad Church religious convictions
insures that. He would fain see
lovea and good will abound through
ont the uttermost parts of the
earth and would gladly help chain
up Old Satan for a thousand years.
And in his ardent desire to see sin
eradicated and virtue abound it is
not strange that he sometimes
takes on the appearance of a desire
to become all things to all men,"
But in dealing with the trouble
some problems which environ
these great questions pertaining
to Capital and Labor he finds var
ious hindrances. He would eager
Iy hobnob with the dusty sons of
toll, and bury in the seas of obliy-
ion the many derogatory express
sions which he has made against
them, but no sooner does he begin
this good work than Capital cracks
its whip, and he scampers over to
the other side, only to hear his
buoolic friends presently set up a
terrible growing.
So it is that the accidental Presi-
dent is said to be spending any
thing but a pleasant summer vaca-
ton at Oyster Bay. There were
the coal troubles, and there were
Miles troubles, and the postofice
scandals, and the malodorous
muskrat scandals, and various
other troubles, and now financial
questions are looming up. The
gamblers of Wall Street want more
elasticity put into the currency,
being able under present conditions
to realize nothing but beggarly
millions while billions are coming
into fashion in this twentieth GEN.
fury.
So, Wall Street, backed by its
distinguished advocates in Con-
gress is clamoring for changes in
the money laws which shall give
more freedom and force and power
to the money elements, while the
representatives of the common
people are hanging back and hest
tating, realizing that after all is
said and done they will have the
lions share of bills to pay.
Such troubles as are growing
out of this question are said to be
greatly plaguing President Roose-
yelt at Oyster Bay as the mid
summer dog-day heats hustle
around his devoted head, and he
ought to be enjoying MONDAY
maps stretched on the cool grass
in the shade. taking on strength
for his strenuous race for the
Presidency.
And to add still more to his
troubles strong Republican voices
are beginning to speak. out all
over the land, intimating that he
is too strenuous for his high place;
that he is unsafe; Capital cannot
trust him, and Labor cannot trust
him. Uneasy lies the head that
wears a crown" is an old proverb,
and still mora uneaav lies the head