Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-27
LIKEEs ROOSEVELT
10 the PROPHETS.
Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf Vigorously De-
tends His Att ude Toward law
breakers and Lauds His Fear
less righteousness.

1t is a mastery lecture on ''Rocks on
which our Republic Rests" in Temple
heneseth Israel, Broad Street above
Columbia Avenue, yesterday. Rabbi
Joseph Krauskopf vigorously indorsed
the stand taken by President Roosevelt
against the various wealthy men and
corporations that have broken laws.
After reviewing the big work accom-
pllshed by the President he said that n
change of attitude has undeservedlv
manifested itself toward the President
because he had turned on the light and
revealed cOrruptions in high finance and
Inscriptions corporations and had de-
manded that the guilty be punished as
are other criminals.
DEFENDS PRESIDENT FROM ABUSE.
Instead of receiving the plaudits of
the Nation" said the Rabbi. ''for his
wholly righteous cause, he has met with
an amount of abuse that in venom and
hatred could not have been worse even
if he had proven himself traitor black
er than Benedict Arnold. And this be-
couse he held the safety of all of higher
import than the illgotten gain of the
few
The feeling of alarm has entailed a
disturbance in the commercial and in
dustrial world. But it will not be for
long. Thanks to President Roosevelt's
fearlessness and far sightedness, the
nation will emerge from this purging
batch cleaner and healthier than it has
been for years. and will go forward to
an era of prosperity which, if not as
richly yielding as the one that has pre-
coded, will be more safe, more sound.
and, for that reason, more profitable in
the end.
LAUDS HIS VIGOROUS DIRECTNESS.
To be sure, President Roosevelt is
vehement in his denunciations, and well
he may be. Therein he makes evident
that the spirit of the prophets dwells
within him. Those fearless tribunals of
old were none of respectors of persons
or miners of words. What they
thought they said, what they said they
thought; least and last of all thought
they not of self. They turned as readily
upon king as pauper.
Therefore, were they the unpopular
men of their day, even as Roosevelt is
unpopular with certain classes TODAY.
But what care such men as he for I'M
popularity"
1t wss thus with the Puritans of
old. They were stern and unbending in
their insistence upon righteousness and,
therefore, were unpopular. Almost
any man, some one has said, is unpop-
ular who goes around with his pockets
full of moral dynamite
RoOSEvELT'S MORAL DYNAMITE.
1.-The Puritan planted moral dynamite
upon the American continent, and it
blasted monarchy and the corruptions
of aristocracy, and the intolerance of
hierarchy from our shores. Even so
will the moral dynamite of Roosevelt.
and of others who reverence the law.
rid our country from the dangers of
plutocracy.
TO call President Roosevelt the dis
turber of the nation, the paralyzer of
its prosperity is like unto the wicked
King Ahab calling the prophet Elijah
the enemy of the people,.
" Well might President Roosevelt an
swer in the spirit of that righteous in
dignant prophet: 1T is you, We finan-
cial sharks, that trouble the people.
You are the enemies of a land which
God has richly blessed, whose fields are
vast and fertile, whose mines are rich
and inexhaustible, land that might
increasingly flow with milk and honey,
If your gluttonous greed would not be
bent upon its destruction. "-Philadel-
phia Press, oath inst.