The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-18

DR.. Jorentzs 1.-The Beautiful Story of
life" and doctors advice free. Lorentz
Medical Co., Flatiron Building, New York.
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at last to the God who gave them, with
the grateful exclamation, Now, Lord,
thy servant hath seen it,!
I'm Full Blown Pomp'' Behold Me.
What a queer, old-time. childish
idea was that of our ancestors, that
the President of the United States is
simply a chief executive and that his
duty consists in executing the laws as
they were written. | need not tell
you, sir, that il you should be elected
Vice President it would be one of
your duties as sort of heir-apparent to
the Crown to train yourself and to in
tuence your chief-Judge Parker-ln
the way of usurping the other depart
ments of the government. Your OPP
portunity will not be as great as that
of the President himself, but, us Presi-
dent of the Senate, you may have some
! opportunity: the opportunity of chang
| ing the Senate Rules on your own mo-
| ton, or doing some other revolution
ary thing which, as play to the gal
| leries, will make your good old Welsh
name famous, as that of one of the
| most spectacular and strenuous OF
IL.
the size of their opportunities. They
are responsible for taking advantage
| of them-sometime for not making
| them-as in re Panama Republic. for
| instance
Kick Him! He's Only White Man.
| 1t will be your duty, as part OF the
| Executive branch of the Government
to look down with contempt upon the
| Legislative branch You will soon
| learn that the cattle who inhabit
the Senate Chamber and the other
wing of the Capitol-the Lower House
! (Which has been getting constantly
lower and lower every day for many
years. but little. if any, better
| than the other "cattle" who sent them
| there--the farmers and mechanics ana
| doctors and preachers and merchants
of the United States. Influence the
| President to feel as you do. He Will
be told, perhaps that an executive Of
| ficer can go too far and finally out
rage the feelings of these cattle. He
may be told that ''any man who has
| such q profound contempt for the leg
islative branch of this government is
| unfit to be the head of it's executive
branch" What stuff! Apd yet this
| last sentence is an actual quotation
| from a member OF Congress. Tell
your chief that the man who uttered
|
and not even a Southerner of the
right sort-not an Image of God in
ebony-but just a white man of that
| coarse and brutal strain, which
| turned loose upon the world George
Washington. Thomas Jefferson, John
| Marshall, Robert e. Lee. Abraham
| Lincoln. General George ID. Thomas,
Admiral Farragut. Sidney Lanier and
| Thomas Nelson Page.
Ac.t To no
| these cattle" to Washington, all you
need with them is to talk platitudes
about civil righteousness" and the
"strenuousness of life" What thCY
want to do is to sit in the galleries
and witness the play. Make yourself
the star performer according to your
opportunities.
Remember especially that all pros
perity amongst the people is due to
Governments: that Government in talk
ing with the hand of taxation from
one man in order to dollhouse the
prosperity of another. has. III some
way or other. benefited and enriched
both. Do not stop to explain how this
IS possible. 1t would take too muca
time 1t might besides that. be en-
harrassng If anybody is impudent
enough to insist upon knowing how it
could possibly come about tell him
that you are not teaching a kinder
garten and tell him. moreover, that it is
your duty to "do things" and not to
be bothered with any consideration of
whether you are doing them right or
wrong.
In conclusion. sir. pray for war
nobody can tell what great things war
Will end in when once begun. IT
might result in making of your chief
the first Emperor and Lord Protec-
tor of the Western Hemisphere" You
would, of course, in that event as heir
apparent, share his glory. Your legal
| title might become prince d'Outre
Mere" l know you would run some
| little risk of having him designate his
Secretary of War as his successor,
but / believe 1 would chance it, BE
sides peace is a tame and unstrenu-
Gus thing, and "Smothers out some o1
the finest instincts Of manhood"
Shakespeare said: "In thy right hand
carry gentle peace to silence envious
tongues" Our forefathers even down
through the times of Lincoln and
Grant, thought this sentiment sound
morality and sound policy, for nations.
as well as for individuals. We know
now that the right policy is ITO tread
softly and carry a big stick
Shade of Sherman. Applaud!
Who was the fool who said ssyVar Il.