The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-05-24
DISTANCE LENDS
ENCHANTMENT
SAY THE PEOPLE or WASHING
TON REGARDING PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT.
Veneer Will e5 Washed on This Tin
Political Deity And He Will Be
known As He Really Is.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 16.-l
positively is astounding to people her
in Washington who know Presiden
Roosevelt, at short range. TO rea
about his popularity in the country a
large, and the further away the NOR
popular he seems to be. There mus
be something in that saying that dis
lance lends enchantment 70 the view.
The closer you get to the man the les'
you will like him, for / do not know
of one lovable trait he possesses, al
though he catches many men by hi
impnlsive ways of doing things. He
impulsively tells one man that he viii
do what is wanted of him, but the min
ute the mans back is turned and the
man who does not want that thing
done gets his ear, he just as impulsive
ly goes back on what he said to the
other man, and tells the second man
that it shall be as he wishes. Thus
he is all things &C all men and nothing
very long.
He has made many grandstand plays
about doing things that the people
wanted, but name one thing he has
done or advocated that has been of
any practical benefit to the people,
and | will name you number that he
has advocated and done that have
been or would have been detriment
to the interest of the people. What
good, SO far, has the railroad rate bill
been to the consumers and shippers
of the country?
Every suit that has been brought
against the combination or the rail-
roads, has been brought through the
Elkins law or the Sherman antitrust
law, two laws that were on the statute
books before the enactment of the rail-
road rate law and simply never had
been enforced.
The people of this country have got
the idea into their heads that Mr..
HOOoCNClb 10 dlICl IhC ilNhs thC PAN'N
tory rich, and that he is giving them
taste of the big stick. Well, he is
not hurting them so bad as he is the
people who are dependent on the
growth of the railroads and their ex-
pansion and their ability to haul the
crops to market. Mr.. Roosevelt did
not hesitate to take the money of the
predatory rich, during the last presi-
Dental campaign, when he was cheek !
and iowl with the whole bunch of
them and hobnobbing with them as to
the best way to win the election. AT
ter the election, however, he turns
on them and, in order to make a
grandstand play, he asserts that he is
going to do things to them which
scares capital into hiding and the rail-
roads cannot borrow any money to
make extensions or build new lines
that are needed to haul the commerce
Of the country. u
Regulation and control of railroads
Is all right It is democratic policy
and democratic doctrine stolen by a
republican administration to make it
popular, and it's popularity today is
BASED on policies, doctrines, and ideas {
Itolen from the democratic platform '
rhe democratic platform, however.
lever advocated confscation of prop e
rty, or tried to WELD the big stick L
o scare capital off the face of the h
arth. That is what Roosevelt has
one in order to create little cheap &
opularity. II
You can take my word for it, the
eneer will be washed off this politi- u
al tin deity before his term expires =
nd the people will know him as do y
he correspondents in Washington
nd the members of Congress. He
as not a dozen friends in Congress,
D either side of the political fence, ~
1T they are afraid to say their soul
their own, on account of the pa FL
onage stick he YIELDS. They. also, m
e playing the political game, and he
ey dare not express their honest ar
Unions. If they had the courage to RI
so, they would be astounded to he
low that four-fifths of the men to- -
nom they express them would agree
tn them, and thus the so-called pop
arity of the President would vanish
e thin smoke. It is this servtle
cophancy of the members of Cok
ess that maintains the popularity
the President out in the country,
ded to the servility of the daily
ess of the country in giving circula-
N to all the ideas and schemes
tched in the White House. When
er he wants to head off some one
something that interferes with his
ms; whenever he wants to get to
,,1aN haI