The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-04-07

jobs dor 9. and the people hold thei
tongues forpolicy sake.
The country elects a President. A
hair Drained, bunco. busting, politica
adVenturer whom the pillows of nasty
little war cast with its excrescence tt
the surface, and an assassin's bullet
aimed in the wrong direction, "hopec
up'' peg higher. Pending the
election he was bound and gagged by
his own friends, lest his cratic nature
utterly disorganize the grand old party
of pension grabbers. Since the election
be has been no less hair-brained thar
before. No less hipity skipity egotis
tical braggart than before. No less
dangerous to the peace of the country
No more a respector of the c0nstitu-
ton of our fathers and The written lew
of the land. No less a desecrator of the
sacred traditions of the South. No less
certain now than before to strike run
away gait in some fool direction that
may lead to interminable complication
hardship and woe. But-he is Presi-
dent, and because he Is President and
has chunks of PIE TO cast TO the dogs who
crawl GU their b5llieS and bark at his
coming, we must all vie with each other
to make him drunk with laudation.
Why? Does hospitality demand 1T
Nay, the very name of Hospitality Is
slandered by it. And the panegyrics
thrown into his capacious nav are
plain, palpable lies, as all who read
must know and understand. Is he in
vited to heal any breech, to bridge any
chasm, TO unite any sections? Not a
bit of it. just three things are aimed
a.. Upon his part to feed upon the
admiration of the rabble. His lnordi-
nate vanity and vainglorious self.conceit
thirst for that night and day as the
stricken host panteth for the water
brook. Upon the part of his grooms-
men, to make profit of him for political
purposes; as far from patriotic purposes
as the sntipodes are from each other.
Upon the part Of the railroads and the
towns where ne stops, TO make money
out of him.
: That's all there Is to it. The Courier
journal headlines say, Roosevelt Cap
lures Louisville and Wins Every Heart. :"
We imagine we can see the amused
squirt of Col. Watterson's cooked eye
when he reads that across the waters.
The commonwealth of Kentucky has not
seen the day since Roosevelt was born
that it did not contain thousand great
erlmen than he, and the greatest of
these dwarf him beyond comparison.
We challenge any man to put his finger
upon one bright and original, deep or
thoughtful sentence uttered by this
distinguished visitor to capture the
nearts of the cultured people of that
fair city. But froma commercial stand
point Louisville wanted to show on the
map of the Presidents itinerary. And
Louisville no more than other places.
And they call it patriotism" to
"thus honor the President. But it is
not that They would receive any other
potentate OK any other government with
the same amount of eclat And what
we object to is this, that these mas
queraders chose the sacred cloaks of
Patriotism and Hospitality to cover up
the deformities of their time serving,
soul destroying, sordid, brutal com.
If hero the people loved was passing
through and they should stop awhile
from business routine to honor him
with their presence and shouts of Joy
and warm handshakes, that would be
Patriotism; and it would leave in its
wake a nobler thrill of love for country
and of reverence for the good and great.
But to grow a rancorous weed and try
to palm it off for what it is not, posons
the public mind and shocks the sens-
bilities of those who cherish ideals and
delight to give honor TO whom honor is
due.