The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-08-17
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alliances with none of them; in 9TH
sr words. thai our chief duty was to
Keep our WI house in order, with
he notion in our stupid minds, that
the sum total of the rightful purpose
Of all just government Is the freedom
and happiness of man. How wonder
full it is that we p~rospered with that
sort of a foreign policy and main
withal, the respect and good
will of the world-wonderful indeed
when we consider what we now know
to be accepted sound axioms of in
te%rnational policy. We know now,
from our fellow citizen in the White
House, that the peoples, who may
expect our tolerance and friendship,
are those who maintain order and
prosperity those who govern them
selves WE'LL those who pay their fin
ancial obligations and that it may
become "a duty. which we cannot ig-
more, certainly in the western hemi-
sphere to intervene in some way.
more OIL less indefinite, in the do
nestle affairs of those who do not
do all these things, o behave with
decency in political and Industrial
matters whatever in the world that
may mean, but who, by the omission
of the doing of all these things, do
loosen the ties which bind together
civilized society," which ties, of curse
God has appointed us His mundane
vice-regent-mechanics to tighten up
duty as a nation militant, it may not
be very long before we are firing off
cannon to celebrate the glorious use
of the United States Army and Navy
somewhere in South America, as a
~constabulary to collect debts due
from South American governments,
or individuals, to European govern
ments, concessionaries or traders.
Let us live in the hope of that great
day and when we see it, let us close
our eyes,, gradually but triumphantly
cease to breathe and as our hearts
grow weaker and weaker, surrender
our souls at last tt the God who gave
them, with the grateful exclamation,
Now, Lord, thy servant hath seen
it,
What a queer old time, childish,
idea was that of our ancestors, that
the President of the United States Is
duty consists in executing the laws
as they were written. I need not tell
you, Sir, that if 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 influence your chief-Judge Park
erin the way of usurping the other
departments of government. Your
opportunity will not be as great as
that of the President himself, but, as
President of the Senate, you may have
some opportunity; the opportunity of
changing the senate rules on your
own motion, or doing some other rev
dictionary thing, which as a play to
the galleries will make-your good old
Welsh name famous, as that of N
OF the most spectacular and siren
uous of men. Men, Sir, are not res
ponsfble for the size of their oppor-
tunities. They are responsible for
taking advantage of them-sometimes
for not making them-as in re Pana-
ma Republic, for instance.
ct will be o u duty, as a part of
the executive branch of the govern
ment 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 con-
stantly lower every day for many
years)-are but little, if any better
the other cattle who sent them
there-the farmers and mechanics
and doctors and preachers and mer-
chants of the United States. Infiu-
ence the President to feel as you do.
He will be told, perhaps. that an ex-
ecutive officer can go too far and fin
ally outrage the feelings of these cat
tie. He may be told that any man
who has such a profound contempt
for the legislative branch of the gov
eminent is unfit to be the head OF
executive branch What stuff.
And yet this last sentence is an &C
.ual quotation from a member OF
congress. Tell your chief that the man
Who uttered the sentiment was only
/ S%outherner and not ven a South
erner of the right sort-not an image
If God in ebony-but just a white