Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07
SOME FRENCH PRECEDENTS
Crisis of the Last Three Months More
Than Adventure.
"CHAMPIoN0F THE CLAMORIsTs'
An Explanation of How the Presi-
dents Policy of Inquisition Has
Aroused Such Great Alarm.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS, April 6.-The Gaulois requested
high financial parsonage in France to en-
measure the causes of the recent perturba-
ton in Wall street. His analysis the eau
lois calls little psychological study of two
nations. He deals with President Roosevelt
politely but without allowing the latters
performance to obscure his perception of
the possible dangers to the country in the
Presidents determination to center power
in himself at Washington.
The analyst describes Americans as
in the first phase of capitalists, full of
the ambition of men of action The
French are in second phase of that exis-
tence where capitalists become more timor-
Gus and satisfied with less profits but sure
ones. The French are so thoroughly of this
character, he says, that when they attempt
the other role, in the Panama canal and
in the Transvaal, they are sure to bitterly
regret 1t. In their own role they are
tipoda to the Americans. However, they
have acquired formidable COLLECTIVELY,
which today constituted the only demon
stration of force of which France appeared
capable.
i! COLLECTION Of Adventures"
America is represented as collection of
adventures, in the better sense of the
word. At present America is composed of
people of many nations, who were obliged
to furnish the first proof Of energy in quit
ting their own country three centuries ago
to seek religious liberty, two centuries ago
political liberty and today individual lib
erty. 1t Ia this liberty that President Roose-
Welt thinks it is his duty to restrain. Presi-
dent Roosevelt, the writer says, may be a
poor judge of the economic and financial
interests of his country. Although raised
In New York, and despite his almost few
erish activity, he never made the slightest
attempt to partake in financial, industrial
or commercial life.
Living amid financiers. merchants and men
of industry, he was rebellious to these sur
roundings, from which he turned aside to
devote himself with ardor to arms and poll
tics.
The Crowds Candidate.
The writer says it was the bewilderment
of his party when Roosevelt became Presi-
| dent, they having made him Vice President
| in the hope Of never hearing him talk more.
Once in the presidency he set out to make
| himself the crowds candidate and the
champion of the clamorists against capital,
| and he has succeeded to the full His policy
| of inauisition not attracting great attention.;
when it was directed solely against the
| trusts, was turned on the railroads and
| thus aroused alarm among the great num-
| bers of shareholders who were unable to
| follow infinitely the affairs of the companies
| they owned. 1t is necessary to see in the
crisis of the last three months more than
| financial adventure. 1t is rather the end
Of a state OF things not unlike in many
| ways Richelieus war against the vestiges of
| feudalism in France and the too great
autonomy of the provinces.
After referring to the reliance Of the
captains of industry on state autono.ny
to retard the concentration Of power inst.-