The Washington herald., 1907-03-19
HARVEY BITTERLY
SCORES ROOSEVELT
C0NTNuED FRoM FIRsT 20

/ tagonists; one who should hold aioft the
banner OF idealism and simultaneously
trade with those VIGOROUSLY corrupt. one
who. while urging the necessity of indi.
Nlduai achievement should encourage so.
eialism by inviting attack on accumuIa.
lions or wealth. which are the natural
results of the very individual endeavors
/ thus advocated one whose sense Of per
sonai righteousness should so far over
power his sense Of personal charitable
ness as 20 induce frequent denunciation
Of those disagreeing with him as willfnl
malicious. and unqualified prevarieators
one who should while constantly railing
at trusts, yet shield with the utmost care
me sacred tartn, breeder of them all; one
VINO should deplOre political contributions
from corporations, yet raise TO the most
! powerful position IN his government one
who had sought and obtained them: one
| quicker than any other 10 castlgate the
/ beneficiaries OF a Violation of trust,
hrmer than any other in demanding res
! Tuition OF diverted funds, yet painfully
silent respecting the disposition OF large
sums OF money taken from policy holders
ana used 10 insure not the lives Of the
insured, but the election Of a President.
Condition Scored by Webster.
1t was a condition of affairs precisely
analogous 10 that Of the present that in
spired Webster's stern denuneiation of
those in places high or low who, instead
Of melting endeavor. feed the fires of so
eialism.
There are persons he declared who
constantly clamor. They complain OF. op-
preston, speculation, and the pernieious
Influence Of accumulated wealth. They
cry out loudly against all banks and cor
porations, and all the means by which
small capitalists become united, in order
TO produce important and beneficial re-
suits. They carry on a mad hostility
against all established institutions. They
would choke up the fountains of industry
and dry all its streams
In country OF unbounded liberty. shey
clamor against oppression. In a country
OF perfect equality, they would move
heaven and earth against privilege and
monopoly In a country where property
Is more equally divided than anywhere
else. they rend the air with the shouting
OF agrarian doctrines. In a country where
the WAGES OF labor are high and beyond
an parallel, they would teach the laborer
That ne Is but an oppressed slave Sir.
what can such men want? What do they
mean? They can want nothing. sir. but
10 enjoy the fruits of other mems labor.
Ihey can mean nothing but disturbance
and disorder, the diffusion of prosperity.
aided by President, has produced the
RIGHTEOUSNESS of feeling and action. a de-
sire to enjoy the fruit Of other mems Ia
DOT, the PRONUNCIATION OF agrariau doc
trines; complaints Of oppression and the
pafnlcl0uS influence of accumulated
wealth have provoked hostility 10 estab-
hshed Institutions and Outcries against
the combining of small capitals to pro-
0uce beneficial results bid fair to choke
up the fountains of industry and dry all
It's streams Already, as an immediate
erect OF a whirlwind of hostile legislation
melted throughout the country by the
declarations Of the President and the
warnings. Of the Secretary Of State. capi-
tai bas withdrawn its essential support
money cannot be had TO provide adequate
means Of transportation: railway COM
panies are called upon to make bricks
without straw, and all enterprise is al a
standstill in the face Of the official boast
OF so much already done, and the latest
threat or further 'gtrding up Of lions to
do more.
Quotation from MF. Roosevelt,
Because d few have done wrong. an /
mast suffer; just discrimination has been
thrown TO the winds and the end is not /
n sight The President reiterates the as 4
sertion that he is stiu unconvinced Of the
necessity Of serving a third term. but au- /
lhorizes the positive announcement that 1
no 'reactionary' need apply for the Re 4
publican nomination. Andrew jackson /
alone of all the recent Presidents was |
strong enough to name his successor at
The end Of an administration curiously
Ike the present one IN impetuous defiance
u restraint and in the ferocity of its
assault upon what Mr.. Webster aptly
ermed the fountains Of industry That
dr. Roosevelt is equally potent, so far. at
east. as his own party is concerned, there
IAN be no doubt.
What viii the harvest be? Let us turn
or parallel 10 the pages of history 4.
.ecording the immediate sequence Of the /,
Jackson administration and read as fol-
Ows;
few days after Mr.. Van Buren's in
-ugdration the country vas in the throes
II the worst and most widespread finan- II
'lal panic 1t has ever seen. The distress
vas fairly appalling, both I'm its intensity
md in its universal distribution. All the 4,
'anks stopped payment. and bankruptcy h
vas universal The efforts made !,
" Benton and the other Jacksonians 10
TEN the tide Of public feeling and direct
through the weli-worn channel of sus-
lci0us fear of, and anger. the banks. as
he true authors Of general Indebtedness.
we're unavailing; the stream swelled into
torrent and ran Ike a mill race in the
pposlte way But a few years :
etore the Jacksonians had appealed 10 a !
anEaiag1 UrFH1fo o. .
money power in order TO help themselves
D victory, and now they had the chagrin :
seeing an only less irrational Outcrv I
alsed against themselves in turn and :
sed 10 Gust them from their places. The
eople were more than ready TO listen Ia
ny one who could point out. or pretend T.
, point out the authors Of, and the
easons FOR. the calamities that had be- :
allen them. Their condition was pitiabIe
Trade was at a complete stand
III; laborers were thrown out of en- 9
loymept and left almost starving: farm 7
- merchants, mechanics, craftsmen of I
very sort-al alike We're in the .direst [
Istress. '
line Between Impulse and Reason.
such is the veracious chronicle of .
heodore Roosevelt, historian Of the :
ltermath Of an administration in an re- IA
'ects strikingly similar to that under
hich we now live-simiIar in methodieal
tacks upon property, in appeals to envy Q
nd uneharitableness. in wanton extrava- +
lnce. in the domineering characteristics L
the Chief Executive. in his aloofness p
ON the conservative branch of his own !,
'rty in his determination to obtain new
of the Constitution froT. n
stices appointed by himself, in faith in Il
$ own ability to make the people haUpv =
his assumption that he was constituted
them, not their mere executive ohicef
II their tribune: in his very personal