The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-01-19
DoNALDsoNYILLE La SATURDAY JANUARY le, 1907
THEODORE THE MEDDLER.
Powerful Pen Picture of President Roose-
velts Course and Character-Why
Wall Street Hates and the
PeonIe IoYe Him.

Ol6 4dtbuIu1uGSS W priv dbo COu4lSb4Ol
and public trust manifested by tn
present occupant of the White Hous
is contributed to the January numbe
of Pearson's Magazine by Jame
Creelman, and we regret that the spac,
is not at our disposal for reproduc
tion of the entire contribution. Some
of the more salient passages follow:
In the back rooms of Wall stree
Theodore Roosevelt is known as 1
meddler.
| Pale, wrinkled captains of specula
tion and great archmillionaires, upor
the waving of whose hands the tide o
prices rises or falls, will tell you to-
day bitterly that he is the most med
| diesome president the country has
ever had, either in peace or war, and
that his meddling has unsettled the
existing order and loosed on the
! American continent wild forces of po-
litIcal, economic and social revolution.
But the same thing was said ofevery
strong man who grappled openly with
ignorance, avarice or oppression in
thu history of the world. The Romans
said it of st. Paul when they beheaded
him; the Stuarts said it of Cromwell
when they hung his exhumed skeleton
on a gibbet; The Thirty said it OF
Socrates when they made him drink
hemlock; the Diet of Worms said it OF
Luther; the Seignory said it of Sa.
vonarola, and burned him in chains;
the Salamanean sages said it OF Co
lumbus; the Vatican said it of Bruno
and Calico; King George said it OF
Washington, and the greed of half a
continent said it of Lincoln.
Mr.. Roosevelt IS a meddler. 1t is in
his blood. He has been meddler
since boyhood. He has meddled with
the predatory elements of life, four
legged and two-legged; the crack OF his
rife in the west has been no more de-
structive than the whisk of his official
pen in the east; he has trailed his game
as faithfully in Wall street as in the
mountains of Colorado or the Dakota
bad lands; nor has he failed to bring
down the big beasts of politics.
It is not so many weeks since Ed
ward Henry Hartman, president of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company
and overload of countless American
corporate combin ations representing,
literally, a billion of dollars, said
privately that President Rooseyelt
must be got rid of politically at any
cost. Mr.. Hartman is a Republican
and has secretly exercised great power
in his party.
"But if you put Roosevelt out OF
power you will have to take Bryan or
Hearst. Are you prepared for that?"
s'Yes," said Mr.. Hartman, pas
sionately. "I'l1 take Bryan or Hearst
rather than Roosevelt. We cannot be
worse off than we are now with that
man in the White House. I'll take
any cne rather than Roosevelt; for,
if it comes to that, We can get at the
other crowd. I"
Mr.. Roosevelt has meddled with f.
nancial. political plans of Mr.. Harri-
man and his accomplices-therefore
the forked fingers and the Kissed an
athena maran atha.
Mr.. Hartman is a man OF black
vindietiveness and remarkable energy.
He can fight openly, but his great
strokes are delivered in secret. On
the day of the great 'tcornern of
Northern Pacific stock, when Wall
street staggered under the blows of
the contending Hartman and Morgan
| forces and thousands of men and
women were ruined in a few hours,
Mr.. Hartman sat on a sofa in New
York and tempted James j. Hill. pres
| ident of the Great Northern Railroad
Company, to surrender stock control
of the Northern Pacific line, promising
to pay for the treachery by making
him president of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company.
Mr.. Hill told Mr.. Hartman that the
ownership of the Northern Pacific line
by the Union Pacific interests de-
vice to destroy ompetition-was for
hidden by law, and declared that she
thing could not be done. Yet, for
getting that memorable scene, Mr..
Hill later on, in company with j.
Pierpont Morgan, attempted to unite
the Great Northern and the Northern
Pacific lines 10 one ownership through
the Northern Securities Company
the very thing in principle which he
had warned Mr.. Hartman against as
| lawless act-and when President
Roosevelt interfered with the at
tempted monopoly and smashed it Ii
the courts, Mr.. Hill, too, cursed hin
as meddler, demagogue, reckless
enemy OF private wealth.
So that today the Harrimans anC
Hills and Rockefellers and all their
like are planning the end OF Roose
veltism, and the cry of pred atory Wal
street is that the president has de
serted those who raised him to honor
and power and has become adesperati
enemy of legitimate business, menact
to prosperity, fomenter of clasl
hatred-in short, that he is q violen
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