The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-12
CAPITALISTS VIEWS.

Harper's Weekly, once recognized
as conservative, since getting into
financial difficulties, and having had
to borrow extensively of ]. Pierepont
Morgan and having put George Har-
veg in editorial charge is not so con-
sentative now. In fact, it is sup
porting the capitalists view, per force
of circumstances as the following clip
ping will indicate:
1t is pitiful to feel compelled to
speak truth that is bitter. We yield
to none in appreciation of the excel
lent intentions, despit the calculating
quality of his methods, of Theodore
Roosevelt. We hailed him originally
as the only apparent savior of the
country from the inordinate greed Of
his party as represented in and con-
trolled by the senate. In common, we
believe, with vast majority of his
fellow-citizens, we have regarded with
patient tolerance his numberless i'm
pulsive indiscretions even to the most
recent humiliating diplomatic episode
and ridiculous attemtp to effect by
quasi-imperial decree a change in es-
tablished form of expression. Even
his latest impatient demand for the
privilege of regarding all officers of
the army and navy in time of peace as
in a class with his household servants
and subject to dishonorable discharge
without necessary trial or cause, but
from caprice or personal disfavor, we
still entertain, that even a benumbed
congress will not endow the president
of free people with personal au-
thority held by no king, emperor or
car of any civilized nation. Until
now it has seemed no more than
patriotic duty to overlook lapses and
deficiencies which might, after all,
prove to have been immaterial in con-
nection with Jealous endeavor to
achieve the greatest good for the
greatest number.
Yet stronger has been our sense of
admiration of state-an unquestion-
ably great man, whose splendid serv-
ice has not had and now, in our judy
ment, never will have, full requital.
OF all minds composing this FESTIVE
administration, his at least was reck-
oned calm; and yet, such apparently
has been the effect of glamor of al
most royal honors rendered and &C
cepted in foreign lands, supplemented
by the Impressions of regal splendor
conveyed by the first Of American
Caesars to visit in suitable state his
outlying provinces, that form the very
lips of that sagacious man we re-
ceive the pronouncement, insulting to
free people, of empire.
1t is not matter of the rights of
states, despit the fact that the Union
was and Is no more than a compact
for mutual protection and helpfulness
of sovereign bodies polite; all rescog-
lie the indubitable fact that chang
ing conditions require adjustment of
governmental Jurisdiction. The ques-
ton confronting the American people.
following the defiance hurled by the
president and secretary OF state, is
simply and solely whether the consti-
tuition is indeed the bulwark of our
liberties depicted by the great chief
justice, or mere shuttlecock in tho
game of politics, to be tossed back
and forth by new autocracy, itself
surely doomed, in turn, to be engulfed
in the yawning abyss of anarchy. It
is the fate, not of an individual COM
monwealth, but of the republic itself
that trembles in the balance.
Note the remark: ut is pitiful to
feel compelled to speak the truth that
is bitter" 1t would, perhaps be more
in keeping with the facts in the case
to say: 1t is hard to be compelled to
speak against the man a whole nation