Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-11-01
SCORES ROOSEVELT
New Haven Lawyer Assai|s Pres-
 ident as Zoe of Liberty."
HENRY CLEWS DEFENDS HIM
New York Banker Declares Belief That Recent Financial SquaI Was Due to Assumption That All Corporation Managers Were Dishonest.

Managers Were Dishonest. New Haven, Conn.,, Nov. 1.-"Theo- dore Roosevelt is the greatest foe to s constitutional liberty this country has ever known It is my belief that the late situation in Wall street was prin- cipally due to his high handed poli- cies.''
 } John w. filling, a leading lawyer, de- } livered this and other even more vit- riolic attacks against the president dur . ing a debate with Henry Clews before :, the New Haven Economic club. , Mr. Clews, indirectly defending the ., president, declared that Wall streets . recent hysteria had its origin in the common belief of the people that the great corporations are being dishonest . ly managed. But he inferred that if a presidential election were held this year it would go hard with the ad- ministration.
 The two debaters were brought to- { gether to discuss the question, "Is the Financial Policy of President Roose
 welt Sound?'
 Mir filling lost no time in beginning
 his denunciatiOn of the chief executive.
 He said:
 Arrogant and Conceited.
 Roosevelt, like the blind Samson of
 old, has pulled down the pillars around
 his head to secure the extinction of
 hiS i'm crir, Dbi1istinnc Tho nil
 of financial credit, trust and conf
 dence which support the temple of our
 national comfort and well being have
 all fallen beneath his grip upon them.
 He has shown himself bitterly hostile to great business wealth, and his aim
 has been to break it up. He has em- 1 ployed the federal statutes not so much to enforce them as to destroy the large business wealth.
 Arrogant, conceited--the most arro- gant and conceited man in the United States-he claims to be gifted with Su- pernatural power to detect and punish the wealthy malefactOr. But no man can ever accomplish what he prom iSes. He is the most dangerous foe to constitutional liberty who ever eX- istcd in this country.
 Tn my judgment, the Roosevelt pol icies brought on the late financial sit uation. If not so, why were there not similar troubles in Germany. France and England, where there is the same falling off of the period of prosperity? But there is no trouble there. nor is there likely to be any in any other country" |
 Henry CIews' Argument.
 Henry Clews, who upheld the presi | dents financial policy. said:
 Tt is fortunate that this is not a presidential year, for the people are in such a state of uncertainty that many i well meaning men are biased by de- 1 termination to get revenge for tlfeir 1 losses in the prolonged decline in the i market and during this disturbance of 1 credit
 Capital may continue timid unCil the truth is known. but in the end tl.iS agitation will prove beneficial by pu- rifying the situation and eliminating its evils i
 The action of many corporate man. agers seems to indicate that they think little of violating the law and that if the laws are broken by one high in au- thority immunity must he granted him or else some subordinate will be made to suffer for his sins.
 ''SodOm and GOmorrah were destroy ed because their people broke natures laws. This government will he de strOyed if the rich and interruptions are permitted to break the laws with impunity while the poor are punished for lesser crimes. This unjust discrim- inatiOn will result in something seri- Ous and will not long he permitted by the plain people. It was the asSump- tiOn that all the corporation managers were dishonest which caused the hys- tcria in Wall street. There was a feel ing that we were falling too much into the control of the great corporations"
 No decision was rendered at the plpSn nf fbts dphata