Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28
ESTABaOOk ON PRESIDENT
] um Omshl han Delivers Address at
Grant Banquet in Boston.
wOEK OF ROOSEVELT IS DIFFICULT
Speaker Not UnRlIoyed Admirer Of
chief Executive, but Finds
Much 90 Admire I'm
His Character.

. BOSTON, April 27-At the Grant banquet
Of the Mddcsex club tonight Henry ID.
Lstabrook Of New York said that some one
Lad declared you can always tell a Boston
man, but you can't tell him much" He
had recently met a Boston man. evidently
one Of the ffty-seven varieties Of democrat
now on the market" who told him that the
AlddIeaex club was noted chiefly for its
dinners and the corpuence OF its members
and was therefore a NJ exponent Of the
republican party, whose principles could
be symbolized by a bill Of fare, and con-
tinued:
RE thought he was sarcastic. but
fastened 70 thank the gentleman for his
enCcmlum. and remarked that a Iull dinner
pau was indeed a badge Of the republican
party-just as the badge Of the democratic
party ought TO be an empty soup plate.
Furthermore, that the question of food had
peer. ana continued to be, the most APP
ptulhB question confronting the human
race since Joseph was impOrtuned by his
Starving brothers, and that political party
which should ADOPT a bill OF fare as its
n symDdlzes, would solve the most pre-
plcNing problems in sociology and good
government.
These political dilettanti give me lassi-
tude. rncy are more critical than fruitful
and 60 far TO justify the assertion that fall
men are liars, which assertion, by the way
SIlgLatGd from the Bible and not from the
White House. 1t is conceded that Job, who
was patient man, spoke somewhat hastily,
called ali men liars; and II our president,
v 30 Is not Job. has called some men
liars, he, too, has spoken out of a strong
work of Roosevelt.
In critcising the society manners of
Theodore Roosevelt be pleased to remem-
per that he is engaged in disagreeable
but necessary work. He has tackled the
hydra and is cleaning the Augean stables
Two Herculean tasks rolled into one. And
you have observed how every time he digs
into the compost there is a smell Of am
monia and something squirms. Please to
remember also that Theodore Roosevelt is
not a lawyer but is one Of the few men
outside of that profession ever called to
the presidency and IL may be that for the
work In hand the Almighty, who is still
Imminent in His universe, chose him be-
cause he was not a lawyer and was there
fore untrammeled by legal outlets and
metaphysical reinements. The president
has Secretary Root to advise to the law
ana Tart, and Bonaparte. and above and
beyond these, the supreme court Of the
United States, whose august power would
paralyze his arm and nullify his act as
quickly as ii would abrogate an act of
congress II constitutional limitations were
transcended Don't worry about the con-
sfltuuon so long as our supreme court is
what II is.
> friend Of mine called Theodore Roose-
welt a big policeman with club. He spoke
IN derision, but l adopt the metaphor. A
policeman strikes at a concrete evil, and no
one expects him while belaboring a male
factor with one hand TO tumble the statutes
with the other for a definition Of his power.
Flout him. abuse him, criticisc and Villify
him as you please, we know that the
president has grappled with a Franken-
Etcln creature Of sinister aspect, the great
est powe. in the United States except the
Government itself, and he will teach the
creature to serve and not to dictate. The
paople As a whole applaud what he has
done. however much some of us may dep
rvcate his manner of doing IT, II is easy
TO affirm that he could have accomplished
"a hu m mil lnsa1 With
ins among the trumpets, Ha. ha! with
out thunder or shouting, without paving
the valley or swallowing the ground OF
otherwise cavorting like a war horse in
battle This may be true or It may not
De true; but II is true that still alarm,
would not have alarmed the country, moi
anybody else, much less would It have
created a public sentiment.
RcVivuIist In Politics.
It sometimes requires thunder and light
ming 70 clear the Atmosphere, and after
/ fancy Theodore Roosevelt is to politics
what the rcvvalist is to religion. He bids
selves to the Ideals of our repubijc.
Recently Mr. Carnegie ana his friends
have been shouting for peace through a
because Roosevelt asked for It over the
long distance telephone. But Roosevelt
80 5Uu are celebrating and who In my
opinion did as much for peace, both in war
and diplomacy as any man who ever
lved-RoOsevelt knows, l say, that crooked
3 aths D. usJ ne made straight before peace
Is possible. AS an organized Hope the
tribunal Of The Hague Is beacon set on
a hili, warning, guiding, beckoning, illum
mating. But, in the language Of MIR
CLEVELAND, we are confronted by theory
and not a condition--which are Mr., Clave.
express the universal peace idea.
! do not blame the car Of Russia fol
lions 10 do what lac has done with Japan
nss.stancel 10 the way Of disarmament