The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-05
Roosevelt's Real Enemies.

HAmazing things are happening IN
Washington according to the Min
neapolis Tribune, but not more amaz-
ing, perhaps than the things which are
happening in the Tribune office. Under
the guise Of giving special news about
the rate bill, the Tribune yesterday
took occasion to unmask it's hatred
of what the president stands for and to
hoist the flag Of revolt against rate
Tribune s special news dispatch is not
that Of news, for there is not a. news
statement in it except the one that
Senator Aldrich is going abroad on
April 7. The rest Of the column is
filled with abuse of the president, sneers
at his supporters and innuendoes against
the president s motives In one SEN
tence he is accused Of trying a flank
movement on Tillman by trickery " too
thin to be commented on seriously"
In another he is represented as crying
out for the insertion Of something in
the rate bill which is already there.
Altogether, the president is accused
In this piece Of news of having gotten
the rate bill into such a muddle'''
B that members Of congress are tired Of
1t and want to go home. Undoubtedly
some of. them do want to go home.
Undoubtedly the people would be
pleased to have some of them go home
and not come back.
But is it true that the rate bill is
in fmonotonous muddle'? The bill
passed the house by substantially q
unanimous vote. It has been reported
to the senate without an amendment
The president has not interfered III
any way with the progress Of the bill
Every thing that has been said or done
at the White House with regard tt
the rate bill has been to the effect that
it was the business of congress to per
feet bill. When asked whether hi
would object to this amendment 0:
that amendment, the president has re
piled that he had, like other men, hi
idea Of what would constitute a goo(
law, but that he was not the lawmakin!
branch of the government. The sor
Of assault that the Tribune is making
on the president is the last-ditch at
tack Of the corporations and thei
servile tools in the newspaper field.
There are two classes of enemies Q
the president in the country, the socia
lists and the systemists.'' Both woul
like to discredit him before the cou1
try, the socialists because he is an OF
stacle in the road of their propagand;
the systemists' because he uphold
4 the flag of the square deal, which is
most hateful rag to the grabbers an
grafters Of "high fnance.' The on
wants the property Of the country d
vided up, the other wants those VIII
have much to get more and those VIII
have little to get less. They have or
point of contact-their mutual hatre
Of Theodore Roosevelt.
Such are the quirks of politics tn;
they are able to work in unison to d
stroy, if they can, the man who h;
hoisted the flag of the square deal al
the equality of opportunity for tt
Individual over the politics of the cou
try The socialists hate the preside1
because he is for individualism, tt
SYSTEM hates him because he is f
justice. Both would rejoice in h
downfall, the socialists because thu
would see in it the failure Of indivi
ualism, the ''system' because tn,
would read in it Srebukes to "Roos
yeltism.'' This false, insincere and il
moral alliance isSrepresented in the Sc
ate by the ju1taposition Of Aldri
and Tillman, in the newspaper world
the identical sentiments of the MINI
apolis Tribune and the various Hear
Americans.
The only obstacle in the way Of the
success is the two million majority
Roosevelt at the polls. It is a big Q
stacle but every effort is being ma
to overcome it. It is only right tn
that the voters who read the Min1
apolis Tribune should know with Wh
they are being fed.
washington has. received with sol
trepidation the report that Mrs. Morr
who was assisted from the White Hou
is going to publish a volume Of poem