Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-19
HARVEY SAVAGELY
FLAWS ROOSEVELT
An Intimation That the Supreme
Court Is Being Packed.


had participated in framing, had expressly
approved and by plain implication promised
to sustain. The assertion, therefore, was
not reasonable, but it does clearly indicate
a frame Of mind which spurns restraint Of
even organic law; incidentally, moreover.
II was the most gratuitous and insulting
utterance respecting friendly neighbor
and helpless ward that ever emanated from
the lips of an American President.
'In the ordinary course of human events,
especially in the turmoil and excitement
and Misrepresentation Of a national political
contest, an error might be made, and one
might be chosen by the nation as it's chief
magistrate who should combine in himself
qualities Of profession SO inconsistent with
his practice as to create general distrust
and constitute real menace to the sta
bility and permanence of our national in
situations; one, for instance, who, while de-
manding vehemently that all should be
doors and builders, himself should be the
most striking exemplar of constant and
persistent tearing down; one who should
sternly denounce all critics, though HIM
self the most censorious Of persons; one
who should sneer at opponents for antag-
onizing radicalism instead Of proposing
actual reforms, while himself forced to
appropriate the notions of political an
tagonists; one who should hold aloft the
banner of idealism and simultaneously
trade with those VIGOROUSLY corrupt; one
who. while urging the necessity Of indi-
vidual achievement, should encourage So
cialism by inviting attack on accumula-
lions of wealth, which are the natural re-
suits of the very individual endeavors thus
advocated; one whose sense of personal
Righteousness should so far overpOwer his
sense of personal charitableness as to in
duce frequent denunciation of those dis
agreeing with him as willful, malicious and
unqualified prevaricators; one who should,
while constantly railing at trusts, yet shield
with the utmost care the sacred tariff,
breeder of them all; one who should deplore
political contributions from corporations,
yet raise to the most powerful position in
his government one who had sought and
obtained Them one quicker than any other
to castigate the benefciaries of violation
of trust, firmer than any other in demand
Ing restitution of diverted funds, yet pain
fully silent respecting the disposition of large
sums of money taken from policyholders
and used to insure not the lives of the in
sured, but the election Of President.
The Fires of Socialism.
'It was a condition of affairs precisely
analogous to that of the present that in
spired Webster's stern denunciation of those
in places high or low who, instead of incit-
ing endeavor feed the fires of socialism.
There are persons he declared, who
constantly clamor. They complain Of OPP
preston, speculation and the pernicious
influence Of accumulated wealth. They
cry out loudly against all banks and cor
porations, and all the means by which
small capitalists become united, in order
to produce important and beneficial re-
suits. They carry on mad hostility
against all established institutions. They
would choke UP the fountains of industry
and dry all its streams In a country of
unbounded liberty, they clamor against OPP
preston In a country of perfect equality,
they would move heaven and earth against
privilege and monopoly. In a country
where property Is more equally divided
than anywhere else, they rend the air with
the shouting of agrarian doctrines. In a
country where the wages of labor are high
and beyond all parallel, they would teach
the laborer that he Is but an oppressed
slave. Sir, what can such men want? What
do they mean?
Fruits of Other Mems Labor.
"They can want nothing, sir, but to enioy
the fruits of other mems labor They can
mean nothing but disturbance and disor-
der; the diffusion Of prosperity aided by
President, has produced the RIGHTEOUSNESS
Of feeling and action, a desire to enjoy the
fruit Of other mems labor, the pronunciation
Of agrarian doctrines; complaints of op-
preston and the pernicious influence of
accumulated wealth have provoked hostil-
tty to established institutions, and outcries
against the combining of small capitals
to produce beneficial results bid fair to
choke up the fountains of industry and dry
all It's streams. Already, as an Immediate
effect of a whirlwind of hostile legislation
melted throughout the country by the dec
larations of the President and the warn
ings' of the Secretary of State, capital has
withdrawn its essential support; money
cannot be had to provide adequate means
of transportation; railway companies are
called upon to make bricks without straw
and all enterprise is at a standstil in the
face of the official boast of SO much al
ready DONE and the latest threat Of fur
ther 'girding up Of loins to do more
All Must Suffer.
Because a few have done wrong, all
must suffer; just discrimination has been
thrown to the winds, and the end Is not in
sight. The President reterates the asser-
ton that he is still unconvinced Of the
necessity Of serving third term. Lut au-
thorizes the positive announcement that
no 'reactionary' need apply for the re-
publican nomination. Andrew jackson
alone of all the recent Presidents was
strong enough to name his successor at
the end of an administration curiously like
the present one in impetuous defiance of
restraint and in the ferocity of its assault
upon what Mr.. Webster aptly termed the
fountains of industry That Mr. Roose-
welt is equally potent, so far, at least, as
his own party is concerned, there can be no
doubt.
II have drawn upon the bitter expert
ence Of the past for parallel designed to
indicate the menace of living tendencies
because 1t is necessary to make the por-
trayal distinct and clear The line 1 would
draw lies between impulses and reason,
between hasty action and sober Judgment.
between practice of politics and aim at
craftsmanship, between too great heed of