The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-07-14
JUST IMAGINE ROOSEVELT
RUNNING A NEWSPAPER

At the session of the National Edi-
torial Association, held at Guthrie,
Oklahoma Territory, the second week In
June. the following clever address was
delivered by William Allen White of
the Emporia, Kas., Gazette:
TAIL GOES WITH HIDE.
THE only place in this bright and
more or less beautiful world where
reform takes the hair and the hide,
and the tail thereunto appertaining. is
in newspaper Office. 1t costs a news
paper to go into the reform business.
If you tackle the beef trust, brother
editors, you will hear from 1t when you
make a contract for Vigoral and the
beef extracts. II you tackle the rail-
roads you will get chance to see more
scenery to the square mile when you
travel than you have been used to OBJ
serving. If you tackle the politicians
| they will start another paper, which
won't hurt you particularly except as 1t
is n disgrace to the honorable profe
sion in which you are shining. If you
whack away at Standard Oil, there Is
danger of losing your Mica Axle Grease
and parafine candles advertising, and II
you are for Sunday closing you lose
your tobacco and cigar and malt Dutrine
advertising. Yet you must reform some
thing the people demand reformed, and
If they don't get 1t they will stop the
paper. After a long session of medita-
ton and prayer the Gazette has come
to the conclusion that the only safe
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1t needs the reform and the czar only
gets our valuable papers through
clipping bureau, and If he should de-
eide to blister the Varnish off several
clipping bureaus no one would care
much. The thing for all true reformers
to do, therefore, is to go after the czar.
Did you notice that our beloved presi-
dent-the most exalted trust buster and
reformerissimo-has this week passed
a few hot ones to the car? That means
that he is merely getting his breath.
sparring for position i'm the big home
fight. He knows It won't hurt the czar.
who is always for peace anyway, and
1t will give the PRECEDENT a chance to
get his wind in the Panama matter.
FANCY ROOSEVELT AN EDITOR.
1.-THE president Is a successful re-
former. He has done many useful
things, In a fine way. He has had the
big national stage and has been under
the limelight for fifteen years. He has
worn the championship belt for four
years and has been in the heavyweight
class for long time. More than that,
he gets his gate money regularly
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times when the telephone in the
Gazette office is having fit. and the
man with firm set mouth, and
naughty air is in the business Office
stopping his paper, there comes a fun
ny thought to the editorial mind: What
do you suppose Roosevelt would do II
he was running the Oyster Bay
Tribune? would he go right after the
gamblers and saloonkeepers and vio-
lators of the law. who lived In his town.
would he print the item that showed
how the local banker was gouging In
his interest account, would he dare to
go to the court house and get the per-
sonal property tax list and run it-or
would he consider the larger good and
take his typewriter in hand and blaze
away at the practice of polygamy in
Utah. the inlquity of the fruit trust in
California of the violation of the game
laws in Maine? 1t Is one thing to be
a president with $4,000 a year, raining
on the tin roof whether you work or
not. and quite another thing to be the
editor Of paper in board sidewalk
town, dependent upon retaining the
good graces of the people for your
board and keep. There is something
inspiring in the sweetly solemn thought
that you don't fear saturday night,
that gives a president courage in
busting the trusts. which country
editor knowing that the boys are tired
OF taking orders on the clothing store
for their week S wages-someway doesn't
feel. Roosevelt is brave man, but II
he was running a country paper. and