The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1906-11-10
Mr.. ELIHU ROOT.
Communicated

When the great upheava took place IN Fhlla
dephia little over year ago, and chaotic conIi-
tOns reigned III that cty-when Mr. James NC
Nichoi was designated as a thief and blackguard;
when political turmoil reigned by virtue OF MT
We;yers stand against the gang-Mr. hlhu Roo'
went into the city of Philadelphia and told the
people to vote with the reformers. We did not take
much stock in Mayor Viewers revolt at that tlne'
because believed it was due to Il desire on MS
part to get even with Israel Durham and his
friends for throwing tobacco guilds at the mayors
picture while Ell route to conventions and pleasure
iaunts and for ignoring him in the secret coun-
ellis of the so-called gang, which as it was mann
tanned, held Philadelphia by the throat And
his latest move I'm leaving the Lincoln party ana
going back to the gang justiies our belief he
Quaker city folks, like the good and dut1ful chli-
dren they have always been until recently III mat
tiers of politics. followed Mr. Roots advice. and
elected the City party candidates. We do not de
sire to defend city politicians, whether lndepend-
ent. Republican Democrat; nor do we desire to
defend city politicians and ward heeers because
they happen to be Catholics. Such men have very
little respect for the Catholic faith for any
body but themselves. What we do wish to do is to
prove that Mr. Root has occupied two distinct po-
sitions in year-positons directly antagOnistic
to each other Now this sending of cabinet off
GERS into state campaigns is of the defects Of
American political life Dragging the White
House the home of many illustrious men. into
Crokerism CoXism, any other petty city or state
writer's establishment who is a layman and who
has followed Philadelphia politics to extent
when it was published in Salt Lake papers that Mr.
Root campaigning i'll Pennsylvania and tell
ing the people to vote the state gang ticket. What
position for a cabinet officer in these United
States. Then this same Mr.. Root went into New
York state and told the people Hearst was
assassin and the murderer of Mckinley. 1t must be
admitted that Mr. Hearst's papers have not always
followed the golden rule i'll publishing news. and in
the indiscriminate use of epithets, but, on the
other hand. tell Us the name of one paper that
does much different when treating of political en-
envy. Every who remembers the length of
time that elapsed between the blowing up of the
Maine and the outbreak of war is aware that the
whole country was i'll an inpatient attitude and
that the late President MeKinley's own friends
were conSamnng him for his seeming datOrness
Excerpts could, no doubt, be given from thou
sand papers of that war-like time which would
show as much bitterness and Incorporate language
as those quoted by Mr.. Root
This is being written without regard to whether
Mr.. Hearst will be eIec.ed or not But Mr. Hearst
has been maligned and bitterly assailed by many
public who are hostile to labors interests
You called Mr. Hearst in 8 recent editorial
veritabe Lincoln in his defense of labor union
ism. and | see reason to differ from that opn-
ion, irrespective of what will take place Tuesday
If Hearst is guilty of the murder of Mckinley
he is guilty of the murder of Garfield and of Lin
coin which is impossible The corporation abuse of
power i'll this country has ceased to be menace II
is curse-a whitening, blighting curse-on
American life-a breeder of anarchy and every I'M
holy ism that has no reverence for American in
situations What they want on the American flag
Is gold dollar-not any more stars. There are
ninety senators in Washington-two from each
state-and every one of them, Democratic and Re
publican, is a millionaire and a representative of
some corporation or trust, as Mr. Root himself
cabinet officer, is, and he has never attempted to
deny it. He has deliberately gone into the state of
PENNSYLVANIA, and told the people at one time to
support Mayor Weaver against the gang. and one
short year after he ellS the people to support
the gang-the hooters who spent more than S. 600
GOO too much in erecting state capitol and dis
IGNORING, or trying to dishonor. the Catholic re-
llglon i'll its mural decorations
When President Roosevelt returns from Pan
anna, the best thing that he could do would be to
retire Mr.. Root to private life. Mr. Elihu Root
would be an adornment to political obscurity. At
present he Is menace to his party and to the prin-
cpes of justice and truth, for it is very probable
that the murderer of Mckinley never read line of
one OF Hearsts papers any more than did Guiteau
or Booth, who never even heard of William Ran
dolph Hearst.
PROBLEM OF LIFE.