The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-10-24
AIDING A CORRUPT GANG.
admin lsfration's Part I'm PennsyI-
vanfa Politics Resented.

yanfa Politics Resented.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
who is this that darkeneth counsel
without knowledge" in Pennsylvania
to-day? Speaker Cannon, Leslie NJ.
Shaw, and the other members of the
Roosevelt administration. who are sent
into this State to tell the voters Of the
commonwealth that because the Con-
federate States declared half century
ago against a protective tariff decent
citizens should support the organization.
with its baIlot-box stufing. its organized
Iooting, it's degradation Of seif-govern-
ment
or Congressman Dalzell nothing need
be said He is on his own ground, and
it Is perfectly natural that he should
spring to the assistance Of the gang
because he is returned by q cOrterie u
steel manufacturers who have always
found Il easier 20 wiring such schedules
from Congress for the billionaire stee
interests as Will grind the faces Of the
consumer through the kind Offices Of Z
corrupt organization. than by address
ing themselves TO an honest and free
electorate. These people are Joined q
their aeshpots.
But the Roosevelt administration DC
cupies different ground It stands. ac
cor0iug 10 all professions. first Of al
for the righteousness that exalteth 4:
people The President in his active ca
reer has played many parts. but in every
role and ia every circumstance and po
sitiOn be has been conspicuous as th'
preacher and moral counselor; th'
homiust who teaches honesty. mora
courage. the use of the conscience il
casting the vote; the aggressive and an
compromising foe to that corruption (.
politics and business-and the corrup
alliance between them-which IS the aw
1 fuI menace to the republic built BIZ th'
| sacrifices Of heroes and patriots
And the President is celebrated as tn
man who insists that mere talk IS fatal
and that the doors Of the deed are 10 b.
/ the saviors Of the United States
I The people Of Pennsylvania. at last
I after q dreary and long season Of shame
I ful acquiescence in the most degrading
| system Of State and municipal govern
ment Of which the annals OF free govern
ment have any record, have begun 10 10
/ doors Of the deed.
There never was I'm any republic j
ancient OF modern times a scheme of gov
/ eminent any more dangerous 10 persona
/ liberty. business health, moral standards
OF sound administration than the Qua
I oiigarrhy, which. as agent for corrup
/ corporations and the aggregated vice 0
! the commonwealth. had substituted IN
/ principle OF bargain and sale for fire.
+ elections and fair count The syster
I had proceeded so far that Pennsylvania
/ government. instead Of being the Key
stone which contributed strength 20 III
arch Of union, was a spot 50 weak tina
/ il elected concern as TO the sOundnes
/ OF the structure of free government
/ When the people begin 10 rise an
apply the remedy Speaker Cannon, in nj
7 brutal commercial way. comes TO Penn
/ sylvania and says: Behold this State
I Its manufactured product is over w
/ billions annually. and shall We incont
nently thrust corruption aside2 BY \
means. Vote for the gang and corruI
/ tlou.'
/ The argument IS based on false pre-
tense and fraud Il is an imperunenct
/ II Is not necessary that the state shout
be politically rotten in order TO preserv
its trade.
And as for the President and his ad
I ministration. no words can be sever
/ enough-not even the words which tn
/ President speaks himself in and out c
/ season in denunciation Of recreant an
I careless citizenship-tO characterize a de
liberate attempt to throw the common
/ wealth hack into the arms OF an organiza
ZION and "a system OF un-American govern
meut that exempliaes all that IS abhoI
\ rent 20 the professions and ideals {
President Roosevelt