Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-11-08
FELL DOWN AND woRsnIPPED MIN.

The editorial in the esteem Wash
ington Post of last Saturday entitled,
ITO the President, - is enough to turn
the stomach of a hyena. 1t is posi-
lively the most fulsomelY nauseating.
cringing, trucking bit of literature
we have ever seen. How could the
Post have descended to such leve,
We are certain that the followers OF
Aaron never more obsequiously hum
bled themselves before the calf set up
for their worship than has the Post
BUNDLED itself before the mighty
Theodore. The Pharisee prayed. and
he said ''Oh, Lord, l thank thee that !
am not as other men," The Post
bowed before the all mighty of the
White House and said:
Mr.. President: You are now enjov
ing popularity that but few Of your
predecessors have been favored with at
any period of their careers. Cetainly
no one who has occupied the Executive
Mansion since the death of Lincoln has
so endeared himself to the masses OF
the people. jackson, during the
strenuous terms Of office, could never
have depended upon the support of
political adversaries rs you can to-day.
The tributes even of bitter foes, to your
high ideas, to your courage, honesty,
and sincerity furnish the key to the
reasons of popular approval of your
official acts. Was the Post Office De-
partment corrupt?
You purified it, sparing none for
political affiliations. Were there frauds
IN the Interior Department
Neither social, Cffcial, nor political
standing could save the culprits from
courts and juries.
You are wise. and The Post modest
ly, therefore, calls to your attention
that you must discriminate between
d few men who have been at the head
of these enterprises and the great body
of owners of these corporations, who
are law-abiding people, honest men,
and honest women.
You have tremendous asset in this
country; that asset is known as the
Roosevelt Certificate;" that certificate
is accepted as valid everywhere. That
you should issue. You should use your
tremendous neutrality-suspicious.
gained by honest governing of the re-
public; popularity we'll carried and de-
served-you should use it to-day and
call on the people to sustain rather
than to attempt to destroy what are
termed as tt usJ institutions.
Mr.. President, we hope that you will
issue Roosevelt certificates.
With all that brings money, all that
means money, all that moaey respres-
ents, unlimited resources in our pos
session, and yet the BUSINESS machinery
of the country stops. This condition,
Mr.. President, is unbearable and the
interests Of every citizen of the repub-
lie demand it shall be changed at the
earliest possible moment.
These, Mr.. President, are questions
vital to our people, and The Post feels
confident that you. the leader of the
people, will not overlook their import
ance.
Through two whole columns does
this supplication extend. We have
cited the above to give our readers, if
possible, an idea of the character of
the laudatlon which we hardly con-
ceived could have been poured out by
one man to another man-such we
thought being intended for and sent up
only by the worms of the earth, to One
who dwells on high. 1t has been
thought by US that when we bowed
ourselves down on the Bonded knees Of
our fast decaying bodies, to offer uI
our heartfelt and sincere thanks f0l
the many blessings bestowed upon US
the being thanked would be that being
"who plants his footstep in the sea, and
rides upon the storm" instead of one
who plants his foot In some Mlssissip
pi river mud, and rides mule through
a cane brake.