The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-09-08
In Outer Darkness.

It is possible TO read almost any
thing about the President in the
New York Sun, the New York Times,
and the New York World these days.
All the hard language thrown at
Andrew Jackson seems likely to
find a parallel in the disapproval of
these metropolitan journals of 1907
for the policies of an Executive who
has not been found, even in their
columns, to possess a single one of
"Old Hickory's" bad qualities.
The explanation probably is that
our esteemed contemporaries have
destroyed their political perspective.
They have contemplated the dire
spectacle of President who meant
to enforce the law whether it upset
the New York speculative market
or not, and utter darkness has en-
comprised them round about. They
have seen the head Of the Govern
ment set about resolutely to make
corporation wrong-doers suffer as
well as corporations, and so they
divide their time between ridiculing
him for not having yet landed any
industrial Warren Hastings in Jail
and objurgating him for ever hav-
! ing attempted to do so.
It will help the New York Sun,
the New York Times, and the New
York World if they borrow other
ewes for a while. Let them turn
to a foreign paper like the Spec
tator of London. None of them will
ever charge it with demagogism
They cannot suspect it of disregard
/ ing the law. They cannot even be
lieve it to be radical. Yet it is so
little frightened by the utterances
of the President which have made
these American papers twitch with
nervous fear that it says:
At last. however. the courts have got
/ to close quarters with trust and a
/ Judge has actually declared me ele-
/ mentary truth, as we regard II mere
/ that II a company, no matter how pow
| erful breaks the law, II must take me
! consequences in the matter OF hnes ana
| other punishments provided by the stat
| ute. lust as II II were poor Individual
/ or small trading company. NeVerJhe-
! less. so strange has the notion that even
the trusts must obey the law grown 70
/ the people OF the United states, ana SO
! ingrained has become the BELIEF that II
only trading corporation Is big enough
! and wealthy enough Il stands above. or
at any rate outside, the law, that vast
/ number OF Americans appear 10 nave
| exDected that the President would
/ shrink back when ne saw the results OF
! the laws he has called for or approved,
and that he would somehow or other
/ prevent those laws being applied.
/ There is no need 10 make Mr.. Roose-
velts plain speaking palmer. No one
who is not anxious, or, rather, deter
mined, to mistake him can imagine that
/ he is any enemy to Industry or 10 the
/ legitimate accumulation Of wealth or
/ that he has any sOcialisuc bias On the
! contrary IL IS clear that he Is 10 be
counted as the best friend OF property
and OF a state organized on Individual
| istlc lines. He stands for the rights OF
| property and the rights Of the individual
against a laWleSsness which, II persisted
| IN. can only have one end-the destruc-
| ton OF a state based on individual
! freedom and private property
New Workers would be in curl
Gus position if, in order to have the
President fairly treated, they had
to subscribe to the London papers.
But that will never come to pass
while there are other papers in the
Icountry-and, if the Democrats were
to nominate an out-and-out radical
to oppose some Republican candi-
date indorsed by Theodore RoOse-
veit. we should find that not even
the Sun, the Times, and the World
were altogether without trust in
the Endorsement,