Morris tribune., 1905-09-16

| papers thru clipping bureau, and
Iif he should decide to blister the
varnish off several clipping bureaus,
no one would care much. The thing
for all true reformers to do, there
ford, is to go after the car. Did
you notice that our beloved presl
dent-the most exalted trust buster,
and reformerissimo, has this week
passed few hot ones TO the car. That
means that he is merely getting his
breath, sparring for position in the
big home fight. He knows it won't
hurt the car, who is always for peace
anyway, and it will give the presi-
dent a chance to get his wind in the
Panama matter.
The president is successful reform
er 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 heavy
weight class for long time. More
than that, he gets his gate money
regularly whether he wins or loses.
| But sometimes when the telephone
in the Gazette Office is having a fit,
and the man with a frm-set mouth,
| and naughty air is in the business
office stopping the paper. there
comes funny thought to the editor
ial mind What do you suppose
Roosevelt would do if he was RUM
ing the Oyster Bay Tribune; would
he go right after the gamblers and
saloon keepers and violators of the
law, who lived in his town: would he
print the item that showed how the
local banker was gouging in his in
terest account, would he dare to go
to the court house and get the per-
sonal property tax list and run tor
would he consider the larger good
and take his typewriter in hand and
blaze away at the practice of po-
lygamy in Utah, the inquiry of the
fruit trust in California, of the vio-
tations of the game laws in Maine.
1t is one thing to be president with
fifty thousand dollars year, raining
on the tin roof whether you work or
not, and quite another thing to be
the editor of a paper in board
sidewalk town, dependent upon re-
tanning the good grsces of the peo-
pie for your board and keep. There
is something inspiring in the sweetly
solemn thought that they don't fear
Saturday night, that gives presi-
dent courage in busting the trusts
which country editor, knowing
that the boys are tired of taking
orders for their weeks wages on the
clothing store-someway doesn't feel.
Roosevelt is a brave man, but if he
was running country paper, and
found that the chairman of the print
ing committee in the council was
getting good many orders for
pauper groceries in his store con.
trary to the letter of the statute-do
you suppose the president would
open up in the nexts weeks paper
and print all of the news? Grover
Cleveland did brave thing in send
the troops to Chicago, but if he had
been running the Buzzard's Bay
Weekly World do you suppose he
would have had the nerve to jump
on the druggist for illegal sales
of liquor, whose wife came over to
sit up with the Cleyeland children
when they had scarlet fever2 Joe
Cannon is supposed to be indiffer
emit to the public clamor, but if he
was running a little country d lilly
down in Illinois, and lot Of adver-
Users came to the office to tell him
that they would order out their ads
if he didn't stop printing the news
about the small pox, and driving
trade from town-what would he do?
The eternal cheerfulness of Presi-
kent Roosevelt is remarked the
world over. A man can afford to be
cheerful who doesn't have to take
anything out in trade, and gets his
salary 10 cash. But supposing
after he had plugged away for
twenty years making the best poss-
IDLE paper for Oyster Bay, he
should find out that a number of
his neighbors and best friends we're