The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-20
SOME HUMOR.

Although possibly not so intended. a
very fine humorous article is sent out
this week by a firm of Wall street
brokers that is having a terrible time
because Hartman, Standard Oil and
other big law-breakers are compelled to
obey the law. Listen to this opening
sentence from this firms financial re-
view:
THE most favorable development
during a week stepped in the gloom of
pessimistic sentiment, crumbling conf
dence, and falling prices. was the EVIL
dence of the conviction spreading wider
and wider that the main responsibility
for broken faith in the securities Of
the country lies at the door of Mr..
Roosevelt"
These Wall street brokers have had a
hard time. judging from their own as
sertions, in convincing the country of
this fact. But now they have done it!
And the evidence of it that is brought
forward is the fact that the New York
Journal is criticising the president. The
New York Journal is Mr.. Hearst's pa
per, and it never loses an opportunity
to lambast the president on every pre-
text possible. And SO Wall street ap-
plauds the New York Journal for fight
ing Roosevelt.
Perhaps the most powerful addition
to this evidence of the attitude of re-
turning common sense in the American
people," says this Wall street writer,
lis the New York Journal. Its readers
number millions among the working
classes to whom the demagogic ap-
reals of the Roosevelt propaganda have
been most luringly and most effective
ly set forth with deluding effect. The
cheap promises of destruction of the
rich and powerful for the benefit of
the poor and powerless, have been the
stock inexhaustible in the presidents
quest of questionable popularity. And
to these people the New York Journal
in the powerful epigrammatic sem
fences of the editorial of Thursday on
The Gear and the Files shows in
paragraphs blazing with forceful con-
viction, how destruction has been
wrought by the president, destruction
which will in the end affect balefully
the home of every worker in the coun-
try"
And then this Wall street humorist
tries his own hand at turning out few
epigrams in this History of Disaster!"
Mr.. Roosevelt is possessed with a
passionate mania for popularity and
publicity.
What money is to the CRATER, this is
to him.
Fed on it to what should have been
satiation, by the enormous popular ma
jority at the last election, like in the
disease of gluttony, he has only been
inflamed with further desire. Long ago
he cunningly concluded that the hatred
of the masses for the rich was the most
promising field in which to grow a
poisonous product, which once tasted
would rouse enthusiasm for him to an
enormous degree.
He began his attacks upon the cor
porations ostensibly for their regula-
ton. really for their destruction, as
sacrifice to the people
1.-The attacks at first did little harm
but won unlimited admiration from the
people.
Persisted in. they began to affect the
faith of foreigners in our great BUSH
ness organizations.
THE foreigners believed Mr. Roose-
welt to be honest. Never before had the
ruler of a great nation assailed muir
derously its richest sources of wealth
and employment.
''They became convinced that our
whole business structure must be cor
rupt.
1.-THE attacks continued and the fear
grew.
Soon all foreign participation in our