The farmer and mechanic., 1907-04-09
NOW WHO IS THE
PREVAR|CATOR?
The Honor Lies Between
Roosevelt and Hartman.
so EASY TOSAY"lIAR'
Virtue "a Mere Snanl-fsoo-eNclt
tntru~tvorthy. Without High
IdeaI-. Egoti-iic and an
BY WILLIS j. ABBOT.


Washington. April 4-One Of the
great advantages to the people wh."n
win proceed from the discussion he
tween Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Harr-
man--Which ono is entitled To the
prefix "honora ble" IS Vet 10 be de-
ternined-is that il will help very
greatly the work being done by the
Publicity Law organization of Eeyy
York, an organization which cx
tends, or will extend, its influence oyer
the whole nation The purpose Of
this organization is not wholly novel.
England has enforced il for long
time. Massachusetts has given par
Michigan and Colorado. Eut the law
as il now stands is not y ~ncctive. 1T
does not compel the publication Of all
The contributions received by the
treasurer Of any political committee.
IT could not, for example, have
brought t. light the fact that Mr.
Edward T.. Hartman contributed per-
sonally $4,000 to aid in the election
of Mr. Theodore Roosevelt and that
he raised $150,0n0 more. No law tha-
now stands on the statute books of
New York could have eXtorted from
George w. Perkins the confession
that he took out of the funds of the
New York Lille Insurance Company
funds consecratcd to those widows
ana orphans upon whose rights and
needs the corporations, and the parry
Of corporations 50 constantly insist.
There should he Il law which wou.d
make Il statement OF political con-
tributions definite. explicit and public
There should he Il law which wOu'l.
compel MIR. Cornelius n. Bliss. treas
urcr of the Republican National COn-
mittee. to tell what he knows about
the money he COT. and where he got
il. Nr. COrteiyOu. the appOintee and
the f:,voritc OF Mr.. Roosevelt should
lie forced to say where his relations
with the corporations which Dnt uD
this enormous campaign fund for the
President, who has raised him from
tie position Of Il StenO2rapher to that
OF Secretary Of the Treasury.
Why Does Not Roosevelt Help?
There mas been an effort 10 secure
such legislation. Mr.. Roosevelt has
done nothing to aid it. There were
things presented TO Congress for
which he made Il fight. lie made no
fight for this. He has been described
in newspapers as the man who weld-
ed the Big Stick over Congress to
compel the enactment Of measures
in which he was interested. And he
did WELD the Big Stick. The Stick
was big because he, who in his earlier
years, posed as a civil service re-
former and whose national position
was that of a commissioner of Civi'
Ideals in order to use the patronage
Of the President in order to enforce
upon Congress his owr notions ana
purposes.
Ii is high time to say publicly Of
Theodore Roosevelt what everybody
saying privately. One of the most
prominent men in the United States
said to me today that Roosevelt was
utterly untrustworthy, wholly without
high ideals, centistic to the point Df
view Of the IiohOnZOllcrnS, an imBc-
rialiSt always il he can be himself the
emperor. There seems Il certain con-
frmatiOn of this point of view in the
statement made in the most enthuS-
aStic Roosevelt papers that the Kai.s-
er William is to send one of his sons
to Harvard College next year because
he may be educated side by side with
one of the Roosevelt boys. further
explanation given for this unWonted
courtesy Of the Kaiser in sending his
princeling to be educated with one
of our own American prime lingS IS
that Harvard College has long beer
the center Of academic opposition t.
the Monroe Doctrine. That doctrine
established long before the time of
Monroe. whose name it bears, was
approved and fought by Andrew Jack
son, by Monroe himself, by Lincoln,
by Secretary Stanton NY almost ev-
in the list of American presidents or
public men. Germany diSlil<cS it. And
the Emperor of Germany now prOm-
ises to send one Of his sons to the col
legC in which opposition To it has been
most openly expressed.
Democracy Not Beaten in Chicago.
Next to the active discussion Of the
Roosevelt Hartman quarrel, the Cni-
cagO election has been most talked
r. II n
opinion - that it was no seri-
Gus blow to the Democracy AID
not a serious one to municipal
ownership. What it was, was a serious
tlOW, solar pleXus blow, to Mr.. Will
Lam Randolph Hearst. \ mayoralty
fight in Chicago is 4 matter Of national
interest. IT was known among all pub
lie men that Mayor Dunno person.
ally was of the two candidates the bet
ter man-fronl every possible point Of
view. Even his antagonists did not
question his absolute integrity his
high purpose to serve the city well and
his record of successful service on the
bench. As mayor he may have failed
in accomplishing all that he promised.
But much of his failure was due to
the opposition of the very men who
elected his competitor last Tuesday.
But mostly his defeat was encom-
passed by the fact that the Hearst
journalistic supporters. Men. as an old
phrase goes, have been loved for the
enemies they made; some have been
distrusted for the false friendships
forced upon them. Mayor Dunno suf-
fered because of such friendship. He
did not seek it, it was forced upon
him. Next To the antagoniSm of the
HOPKINS and sullivan crowd whose
entire purpose In politics is to defeat
any Democrat not absolutely servile
to corporation interests. the earnest
support of Hearst did probably more
to accomplish the turning over of the
great city of Chicago to Republican
administration than anything.
The Men Who Laugh
OF all the men who should find a
certain amount of amusement in the
proof that Mr.. Roosevelt was elected
with the aid of enormous financial
contributions from corporations and
from fFenzied financiers. Judge Par