The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-04-16

coming from an ambitious brood. he
chose public life for career. and HIS
simple rescript seems to have been
to make Reform speeches upon the
front balcony and then to go back
among the party managers and to
force them to give him what he de.
auired. 1t Is truth to say that his de
mands were not exorbitant. | waive
the circumstance that he came peril
ously nigh kicking over the party
traces In 1884, and that at one time he
wabbled in his gait as to Free Trade,
Ii he was sincere about anything, 1t
must have been about Civil Service
Reform. His subsequent relations
with the Spols politicians, whom he
had so pursued, may have benin
ICED. wcre-shrewd. practical politics,
keeping him where he is; but it does
not commend him to the minds either
of thinking. or fastidlous, obeervers
as a Jackson
Old Hickory was made of sturdieI
stuff. When he set his foot down IL
was on the side Of the weak and
against the strong. When he assumed
responsibility he could not be suspect.
ed Of solf.seeklng, Alike in New Or
leans and in Florida his high-handed
acts. as bis critics described them,
were ieveied against the enemies OF
the country. The United States bank
had come to be prodigious power. It
was at once the source and resource
of infinite corruption. He destroyed
1t. Nullifcat'on was the entering
wedge Of secession. He did not count
the cost to himself in that section
where his strength SO largely lay He
bravely assailed 1t from start to fin
ish. he fought against incredible odds
and always went TO the dead.line. Mr..
Roosevelt has sailed with the wind
In the Panama affair he played direct.
ly to the lead of a gigantic swindlo
The Gray Wolves Of the senate wen
an easy victory We are yet to see
whether we get the Canal without
such further scandal and spoilation az
shall impeach the Roosevelt alignment
even as the Bureau VarilIa job inn.
peached the integrity of the contract.
ing parties.
do not mean after the manner. Of
the spouse of the amiable Mr. Chun.
oba,. ~ aaOs. ,,,,soolf fInv,,i a,tI ts,,r..
a'gln" Mr.. Roosevelt am merely
d'strustful of the professional poll
ticians, him along with the rest. They
have a way peculiar to themselves Of
eyading what they dare not meet
They have to be driven when they do
anything worth while. Nor Is there
that concert in the press q the coun,
try which ought TO characterize ar rte.
waited journalism. What might be
power for good Is in its operations
much too fragmentary and isolated.
the vehicle not merely Of disjointed
thought, but often of individual per.
vorsity II Is valuable chiefly as
channel of intercommunicatIon II Is
not an organ Of any sound, saliens
public opinion.
The elements may be ripe to Mr..
Roosevelt's hand. Fairly arrayed an
Overwhelming majority of the people
would vote to reduce the Tariff to d
revenue basis. No ruling body of the
people want any extremism as to the
Railways-only immunity against
Trustism, Railway and otherwise
That Mr.. Roosevelt's inclinations are
Democratic and popular ned not be
denied But, TO achieve Jacksonian
triumph-to escape the pit In which
Tyler and Johnson fell-he must be
prepared 10 go long ways in advance
Of any position yet foreshadowed by
his printed page, or perhaps pre6g.
ured in his own mind.