Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-09
WOULD AID ROOSEVELT
Financiers Approve the Philip
pine ProconsuI Idea.
HOW THEY ALL WOULD HELP
Yearn to See Him Hold Down the
Manila Job.
COULD SPARE HIM RIGHT NOW
E. II. Hartman Would Let Stuyvesant
Fish Go as His Assistant-Ryan
Would Loan Belmont.

NEW YORK, September 9-By wireless
telephone, clairvoyant commissioners and
otherwise the New York Evening Post has
interviewed some of the leading fnanciers
on the idea of President Roosevelt as man.
aging editor of the Philippines. The sug
gestion seems a popular one, and some of
the results are given below:
Although busily engaged in writing an
address on a souvenir post card, E. H.
Hartman good-na turedly allowed himself
to be interrupted with a question about
the plan suggested in London for Theo
dore Roosevelt to go to the Philippines as
proconsul.
Grand scheme" said MI Hartman,
Rebate Gulch. philippines 1900 miles
away, cable rates almost prohbitive.
When's he going?"
1t was explained to him that the London
Spectators idea was that Mr. Roosevelt
should take up his new duties next year.
Wow, wow!' exclaimed Mr.. Hartman
but in glee rather than in anger This is
September. Only three months left Tell
the Spectators advertising 0lan to come
and see me. I'll give him time card ad
showing all the Union Pacific's through
and local connections.
But what do you think of that souve-
mir postal card?" Mr.. Hartman paused
long enough to explain where he was and
how things looked there. Il just love
scenery. I've been on a journey out west
and bought some souvenirs See there's
lot of. tourists and sightseers sitting on
the edge of a mountain. with their feet
hanging over. and they're all throwing
proxies into the Yosemite valley just to see
EN- waited down gracefully on the breezes.
Valleys almost full of proxies
For Fish as Assistant.
"There're some lovely tints and colors in
that postal card. The valleys just that
way, too, you know. l was just address,
ing this card to my friend, Mr.. Stuyvesant
Fish He loves scenery. too. Not so es-
thetic, though, that he amt a handy boy
with his fists. all right. Why doesn't he
go to the Philippines to help Roosevelt
out! That's a bully thought; almost as
good as the Spectators I'll jot the sug-
gestion down here on the margin of this
postal; right here where that snow white
mound of proxies is piling up among those
big trees.
Did you ever see those wonderful big
trees from which come all sticks to beat
the undesirable citizens? Young man. YOU
mustn't think of going abroad till you've
seen the beautiful places in your own
country.
"Confound that anti-pass law. 1 would
like to send Roosevelt a pass right now
over my lines, just to make it easy for
him to get to the Pacific and embark for
his fields.
Then, after looking at the printed sched-
ule on the lamp post letter box to see when
the next mail would reach the Wall street
subpostal station, Mr., Hartman slipped his
souvenir missive through the slot and
walked away, softly humming to himself
that chorus which the jantors fisher
maidens. dividend passers and undesirable
citizens sing in the third act of PRO
For he's going to leave US now;
Wow, WOW,
He's going to leave now;