The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-27
FRIDAY. DEoEmBEn ss. isoE.
A BITTER CONTEMPORARY.

If there is in the United States a more thoroughly bitter newspaper than The New York Sun when it comes to invective and denunciation. we never get look at 1t. Just what first stirred it's bile against Roosevelt we are not prepared to say, but 1t has been boiling over on various occasions of late, and some days ago it had an editorial that passed the limit. We reprint below portion of the article, not for endorse ment or commendation, but that our readers may see what one of the prom inent journals of the metropolis can say about the President. Here is the speei- men:
 Of MT. Roosevelt's proficiency in the arts of the politician in the worst sig nifcance of that word he has left us no room for doubt. A more conscience less or more reckless demagogue never afflicted this country. By slow and in sidious degrees he has upset the pubic confidence. arrayed class against class and fomented mistrust and hatred. No one ever approached him in creating a hopeless disaffection and unrest in the ranks of labor. He joined a labor union under conditions of, intense pup tta champion of every known extremity of labor agitation; he has associated upon terms of close personal intimacy with the worst of and most sinister hg- ures among those professional disturb CTS of whom Orchard. Mover. Petit bone and Haywood are the familiar expression. and he has welcomed them as the guests of the President of the United States in the White House at Washington, All this has been accom-, ,
 IA Al .E1 l~r al. Ion, aNxaf sophisticated vituperation of capital especially eof capital invested in rail- , roads. and. tn erefore. in most intimate contact with the people; by the steady tunes and by fixing public attention on abuses in corporate management In ways as subtle as irresponsible, but excellentlv devised to aNouse and in- flame the public mind.
 Any vulgar and interruptions dema . gogue could have done the same thing with no particular harm to the great body polite. But when the role of ags- tator and as sower of evil seed is taken up by the President of the United States and he goes up and down the land engendering discontent, jealousy and hatred in the hearts of the people, it Is very different and a very seri- ous thing. Even in the time of over flowing National prosperity, even in time of a prosperity more evenly dis tributed and shared than ever before in the history of this or any other coun- try. 1t was possible for MT. Roosevelt to achieve a disaster that ordinarily could ensue only in time of great pub lie depression. disappointment and com mon misfortune.
 He had not the slightest apprehen- sion of what he was doing. No ray of business intelligence ever entered his brain or ever can enter his brain. He cannot even now understand that when the President of the United States, year after year, unremittingly assaiIs the stability of 14,O0O. 900 of money in- vested in a single American industry to wit. our rai'roads--he Is bound by yirture of the. weight and tradition of Asg office to bring about a crash. What @i6 he care for a Vail Street panic A mere disturbance among gamblers and stock-jobbers? After pulling down the house he wonders what made it fall