Gunnison news-champion and tribune., 1904-11-18
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sen Eu.Portsai truths - .a<Sr sA1s y
~bo r.ns nsay reed
These srssns are eucoSrsGsAE 80
gave Ecs~ens ta .d<ssd fHssA y -
mocEscy aaa ~ ske fus1ss -
peps4lar rsie vsii sscuse
feri4aps The Rass DaasD<aoh0 -
!. the saupruasess ps~s2kAV -
fse~.Sisss Roosevelt H.s piuauns
ls eos-,<ssrshly over 0.6k0l +
the ei~ctossl coiiee No pa~sap
oil t.~ about sl0 AckuAIrys -
bot l37 To o&e whe - -
pse.sdens and kss party kuo -
the ssaadposat 81 h.s pertssas 4
poaeuts. thss vosld t~ 1sGuApss
Aensiblc and wholly deplorsble. Ne,
thus view IL quite unWaErse4aAle
Neither the party If the pse~.dssa OF
the policies Of the president are ap-
proved by The News. but ~e rscse
nI@e. nevertheless. thai IN The eSes 81
the people he represented ~ ideal
aud a hixh ideal.
To us there seems much 81 self
deception an the president idea OF
himself and his methods. bat thai
he believes IN his own honesty. his
own hlgh Parpose and the greai
work be is called upon 10 perform
Is uuguestioned The people accept
iis sIew # himself aud SAIL further
idoalIze u.
l. this 10 repadIate the protests
maie ia these Columns
Not at all Ne acknowledge the
sentiment which has placed Thee
dore Roosevelt again m oihce W.
respect che faith this expression rep
reseuts. The cause represented by
presidant Roosevelt ls not our cause
even though We take his own concep
tioa thereof as genuine and praci
able.
THERE Is A GREAT CAUSE
OF EQU ALITN AND JUSTICE
FOR ALL THE PEOPLE, EVEN
UNTO THE LEAST, OF WHICH
NEITHER THE PRESIDENT
NOR HIS ASSOCIATES NOR HIS
CULTURED ADMIRERS HAVE
NUCU CONCEPTION.
THE FUTURE BELONGS To
THIS CAUSE and its ideals and
heroes viii appear in due time aud
hnd the American people read, fo
them.
Mr. Roosevelt, satisfied as he is
with special privilege tariffs, content
as he is 10 be the candidate of a
party supported by the huge corpor-
atoms it has fostered, living the
life and thinking the thoughts Of the
favored few Mr.. Roosevelt cannot
comprehend the needs OF the masses,
the wrongs Of the small producers,
the fundamental reforms absolutely
necessary for preservation of society
and the welfare of the whole people
In this he shows the peculiar llmi-
tatIOns of the most favored every
where 1t does not shake our faith
in the least to know that college
presidents are content with the
Republican party and its worthy
president.
The horror Of the ''best people" of
the colonies at the mob which
supported Thomas jefferson was
only eqUaled by the admiration
they felt for Alexander Hamilton.
the defender Of monarchy, profitable
finance and all things else exclusive
and aristocratic
Mrs Julia Ward Howe confesses
that when her husband first took
her into the small and des pissed abo-
huon circles Of Boston that her
shrinking and repulsioE were al
most unconquerable, SO intense was
the prejudice against these refurmers
on the part If the best people of
Boston and New York. Scarcely a
dozen pulpits Of the North opposed
slavery prior to the war, and in the
South none at all.
The world would have stood still
had there been no one 10 lead but
the scholars and the moral tutors Of
the generations. Those favored Of
fortune by the best environment Of
their day are too often hypnotized
by the standards Of the prosperous
until they see nothing, dream of
nothing apart from their own narrow
world. Can any good come out of
NAZARETH has been asked bv the
prosperously provincial from time
Immemorial. Yet age by age. the
despIsed cause and the prophets
from the heart of the people arise
and lead the world on 10 new.
broader and nobler planes.
Another truth made plain bv the
counting Of last Tuesdays bsllots:
The Democratic party can never win
unless it is true to Itself Tho no