Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-06

in addition he Is what probably none OF
these gentlemen could be-a great Secretary
OF War. EIihu Root is the ablest man
have known in our governmental service.
l will go further. He is the greatest man
that has appeared in the public life of any
country, on either side of the ocean, in my
time
This is praise. indeed adds Wellman.
well. what of it. 1 have never heard
that Secretary Root has denied the soft
impeachment. Praise indeed Yes. And
what praise in return could be adequate in
repayment? In this wonderful mutual adj
Ihiration society of me too. Teddy, and me
too, Lihu,' is the return rhapsody of Mr..
Roots peroration at all extravagant-con-
sidered from the standpoint of repayment,
OF course?
Unconscious Identity Of Cerebration.
as it any wonder that he was the man
selected by the candidate to lay it on
strong?' A man of ability, too, Mr.. Root.
He had defended Tweed Why not defend
the republican party in its hour of nom
action. passivity. negation and mere OBJ
struction? Indeed. he and the President
have had minds so much alike that they
have been suspected of unconscious iden-
tity of cerebration.' of thinking the same
thoughts In the same words
Il have heard that in October 1902, Mr.
Root made a political speech In Cooper
Union, New York, in which he used this
language:
II a tdTlH law mas on the WnOle worked
well, and IL business has proSpered under 1t
and is prospecting, 1t is better to endure
some slight Inconvenience and inequalities
for a time than to incur the uncertainty
and disturbance of business which neces-
sarily results from the process of making
changes. The mere fact that a different
rate of duty would be better than the rate
fixed in statute does not settle the question
whether the change should be made now or
should be deferred. Every tariff deals with
duties on a vast number of articles and in
wolves vast number of interests often
conflicting, and whenever the law Is taken
up by Congress for consideration with ref
erence to one change every schedule In
that law Is going to find some one urging
change in that schedule. and all the busi-
ness interests of the country are going to
be left during long continued discussion.
In state of uncertainty as to what will be
the outcome of duties upon the things they
are producing and therefore in uncertainty
as to what competition from abroad they
will be obliged to meet
And l have heard that the President, in
his political tour through the west in the
spring of 1908, made speech In which he
used this language: If tariff law has in
the whole worked well, and if business has
prospered under it and is prospecting. it may
be better to endure some inconvenience
and inequalities for time than by making
changes to risk causing a disturbance and
perhaps paralysis in the industries and
business of the country. The fact that the
change in a given rate of duty may be
thought desirable does not settle the ques-
ton whether it is advisable to make the
change Immediately. Every tariff deals
with duties on thousands of articles ar
ranged in hundreds of paragraphs and in
many schedules. These duties affect a vast
number of interests which often con-
fiicting. If necessary for our welfare, then
of course, Congress must consider the
question of changing the law whole
or changing any given rates of duty, but
we must remember that whenever even a
Schedule < int era re
will appear to demand change in almost
every schedule in the law and when 1t
comes to upsetting the schedules generally
the effect upon the country would be ruin
ous'
verify. Two souls with but a single
thought; two speeches that read like one
And that single thought so harmonious
ly expressed is not to force single special
interest to take It's fps from the public
breast for fear the public, finding them un-
necessary, might shake them all off.
1T Is not therefore to be wondered at
that the peroration of the greatest of
these was sort of dedication of him who
had dubbed him greatest of these 1t was
almost as natural as self-appreciation. 1t
was only alter egoism after all. What a
magnificent piece of humor Is this I'M
bounded adulation of our fellow citizen in
the White House by the chief OF these
How humorous to praise so highly our
fellow-citizen In the White House. who in
the long line of great men who have filed
the seat he now occupies has himself
found only about three In his opinion
worthy of anything like unstinted praise
George Washington. Abraham Lincoln and
himself Verify, the other humorists will
have to retire from business The chief of
these Is Mr.. Root.
Republicans and Moral Sentiment,
1.-The temporary chairman said. speaking
of the republican party. Through it more
than any other party the moral sentiment
of the Ameracan people finds expression
God save us. Where? Going back to an
cient history in the credit mobilier? In the
long saturnalia of southern reconstruction
or in recent history in the Post Office De-
partment? In the public lands bureau?
In the full sway of bosses, formerly cursed
so bitterly and now taken fondly to his
bosom by the President? In the pitiable
kilograms fnquiring just when the patri-
otto and unassisted revolution of fifty or
one hundred men was slated to come off
Unexpectedly in Panama? In the cele-
brated order of Hell Roaring Jake Smith
prescribing ten as the age above which
children were to be killed in one Of the
islands of the Philippines? In the univer-
sal honeycombing of our national life with
the corruption of legislation bought special
privileges? Time falls me to ask where
what has ancient history to do with pres
ent infQuttfes. anyhow?
MI Root says: Offenders have been re-
lentlessiy prosecuted and sternly punished
Isn't this remarkable laundering IN the
| publican accomplishments, especially when
compared with the refusal of republican
House or Representatives to make culprits
! lace even SO much as congressional in
'estisation; when compared with the alb
solute and constant refusal of the repub-
fcan Speaker to recognize anybody for
the purpose of making motion even of
that character? II there ever was a de-
termination fully entertained and finally
carried out 1t was the determination of the
republican administration and the repu5-
lcan legislative body to see to it that no.
body should investigate alleged culprits in
the Post Office Department except their
colleagues in the executive branch of the
government.
Increase in Circulation.
There follows something. however, which
will be taken seriously. The Secretary
boasts that the per capita of circulation
of money among the people in the United
States increased from $23.14 in March. 1901
to $31.02 in May last, and that the credit