The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-17

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r,ar hut Tor tho fart that tho allegations
are msda w lhe President hlmssif Many
times N has tren asld IN tho hearing n the
correspondent, n THH StS IN ths las, sew
DAYS
How ran - question the truth N preai.
don't Rooasvelt'a statements 10 Congrsaaf
f. il mt cunceivable that the head ~ the
Government would attack q great national
Industry and necessarily destroy q whole
branch n your foreign trade niles The
facta arc even worss than he represents
,hem. such a thing has never been done
before, and we cannot believe II would have
boon done now unless the Necessity for such
n dra ttio remsdy was imperative. The
President ~ course realizes that the losses
~ American trade consequent upon these
exposures will no ~incalculable, and We
admire his courage In facing sacrihcea
which are apparently necessary 70 insure
genuine REFORM
Every American who has intimate Englieh
friends IL constantly asked such questions
a. ia Roosevelt the only honest man In
office in the United States?' Arc your
local officials all thieves and ~bribetakersf'
Are your legislators all venalf' is
patriotism in America all noise and nothing
practicalI" DO your people recognize
and perform no public duties beyond go
ing to the ballot box OCCASIONALLY Why
IL the administration Of justice In America
90 slow. so unoertain?' is IL the fault
OF the laws or their execution2' why do
you provide intricate legal machinery to
enable rich criminals to defer their punish
ment indefinitely or evade 1t altogetherf'
These are only a few Of the inquiries with
which unhappy Americans abroad are
~bomharded daily by those who are amazed
by the wholesale scandals depicted daily
by the Atlantic cables for European readers.
Those who know America are more friendly
and not less frank. Here 10 the comment
of a keen English observer:
The American people are all right.
although they are entirely responsible
for the present appalling state Of affairs
Their overruling passion for money making
has overreached itself at last, as 1t was
bound to do. No country that performs
It's public duties only spasmodioally a
expect a clean administration. No country
that pays its public ervan 80 dispro-
portionately as the United States a
attract the right men into its service. Why
do you pay policemen and letter carriers
four times more and Cabinet Ministers
and diplomats less than one-third OF what
VI dor You got the wrong men at both
sxtremes by your absurd practice.
sThe only other reform you need il a radi-
cal si~mplication Of your judicial system.
both criminal and civil. Make 1t speedy
and insxorable and all obstacles to the SUI
preme development Of American prosperity
and civic greatness will disappear"
European opinion as a whole. howe YER.
Is far from seeing the situation In this light.
II regards the country as sadly lacking in
moral staminay and they see in President
Roosevelt's agitation an attempt to lift 1t
up to his own high plane. There Is no sus-
picion OF his altruistio motives, while the
tenor Of all recent dispatches has awakened
the gravest doubts Of the influences which
will make Congress hesitate to apply quickly
the remedies which the President recon-
mends. Any other view Of the situation
finds no expression in the European press,
ami European readers are hardly to be
blamed for believing that no other honest
alternative exists.
Since the foregoing was written New
York dispatches ave been received an
nouncing the House committees amend
mepts to the meat inspection bill. There
has not been time yet for them to be pub
lish I'd and commented on, but the nature
OF that comment can easily be foretold.
A New York despatch to this mornings
Times is reprinted in every afternoon paper.
Tomorrow and Monday, 1t is safe to say, it
will appear practically In every paper in
Great Britain and in hundreds on the Con-
tirent. 1t opens with this
Careful examination OF the meat inspec-
tim Till as amended by the House Commit
tee on Agriculture reveals such an amazing
barefaced attempt to make the measure
v~alueless that 1t is difficult to write about
It in anything like temperate language.
The entire story Of the influence Of great
business interests on American politics shows
no darker page than this"
The Spectator to-day warmly %repudiates
the declaration of certain not very wise
people that the indigna ton expressed in
England over the scandals Is a sign Of the
inherent hostility Of the British to the
American people, This, says the Spectd-
tor, is an attempt OF the part OF the authors,
aiders and abettors Of the beef scandals
to divert attention from their misdeeds by
abusing the British people. 1T is not too
much to say" continues the Spectator,
shat it is very difficult to find Englishmen
or English women who rave not a warm
place in their hearts for the President.
They feel, too, that he at this moment is
enga ged in something very like a life and
death struggle with the most selfish ele-
ments Of American commercial life and
that he Ia fighting for them, as well as for
his own fello W citizens, a battle OF purity
against corruption.
Though they may not understand the
details of the trust question and the political
battle now raging at Washington they
realize fully the general nature Of the
str,o1le and that n man who is neither a