The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-21
now rrmEs oHANar.

Mir A. Maurice Low, who writes on American affairs for The London Ma tionai Review, comments on the ap- propriation by Congress of s2s,oeo aa year for presidential expenses. and his remarks are so Interesting that we make rather extended extract:
 Mir. Cleveland was very fond of shooting and fishing, and to grattfy his love of sport and obtain a relief he was President he used to sail down the Potomac a few miles. On these occasions he made use Of small ii-hthpuse tender. and paid put of his of himself and the two or three men who were his guests and companions. Yet MT. Cleveland was most savavely pers for what they termed his Illegal use of Government property. and had he dipped lavishly into the Treasury and taken out money for his own ben ciousiy attacked. Even his own sup porters regarded his use of small lighthouse tender as somewhat irreg- ulaf, and as a dangerous precedent.
 Mir. Mckinley went to the Pacific Coast on pleasure trip< He travel led across the Continent In special pense was ano beFne exees by the raway panies, who not only paid the cost vt the. train service, but also furnished free the meals and wines on the iih- ing ears for the President and Mrs '. Mckinley, several members of the Cabinet and rtheir wives, the official stan Of secretaries, newspaper eorrs- said a word No one criticised the President for accepting favoEs from the railway companies.
 Mir. Roosevelt has travelled more ex- tensively than any other President, and like MT MeKinley he has always been the guest of the railway compa- nies. When he began the agitation m | law to regulate freight rates, and h. sisted that the railways must be de- nied the power to discriminate in Ia vor of certain individuals, some of his 1 critics charged that 1t came with ill grace from him to denounee savoFittsBl | when he had accented so many 1aYefs at the hands of the EaIlways This ms tailed on the. President by Eemi-oftiela visits to various parts of the country and resulted in the appropriation bs 1 travelling expenses of the PresideIai and his guests and attendants.
 1 Mir. Cleveland used a Wretched ttuf ooriated ca for "aanexing'' Govsrnmeni property. MT Roosevelt has at lis command one of the finest yachts 1T American waters Bought at the ,tlm' of the Spanish war and officially class ed as a despatch boat. 1t is placed al l the disposal of the President for hil sole use, and IS practically q 1Foya | yacht" This disposHiGn of .a maya | vessel excites no adverse criticism l Ten years or so ago the American peo | ple considered that their duty wal done when they paid -theiaT Prssidsia s,st, | him with a aienified but not magnin cent house, and 1t 'tickled him with ' | spirit of Democracy that the Fresi possessed by the ordinary individual. | This statement shows in blair l words how far we have departed il one decade from the Republican sim pliotty which was once the boast ant pride of the American people. and i shows more than that, It shows how ready the country was to critietse an abuse Mr. Cleveland and how the late Republican presidents escape eritt cism and disapproval. although cleve lands offence in this particular wal was but a trife compared with wha
 the present administration Is doing The Democratic executive used T wretched tub of a tender" as MT
 Low calls 1t, yet his use of any kim
 of government vessel for his privat
 purposes was lookea ON III SSA 's'
 quarters as a criminal misuse of pub
 lie property. and doubtless there wer
 some who could plainly foresee tn
 near downfall of the republic unles
 a stop could be put to De&lecratic en
 croaehments on the liberties of tn
 people.
 It is widely different with Reose
 welt He can appropriate the fines
 and most eKpensively furnished yaeh
 in the governments navy to his ow
 use and Mir. Cievelands critics ca see no wrong in it. He can travel al over the country in the finest speets trains without paying cent for thei use but the timid guardians of tn nations liberty are dumb. Wha Roosevelt can do without ripple O | disapproyal would have set the whoi continent in uproar If it had been don by Cleveland, and his impeachmen would have been called for as the mild est punishment fitting for a man Wh would thus seek to take to himself gu