The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-03-24

wrapped up in the hero that we come
to believe that whatever he does is
right, putting a stop to our own
oning process, and soon the hero him
self comes to imagine that he can do
no wrong. The result is not beneficial
to any of h parties Immediately
concerned in the Ter worship nor.
indeed, to any of their neighbors.
81 have a high respect for Mr..
Roosevelt. l think he has served the
American people well in opening their
eyes to some of the evils of the day..
But 1 think he has been spoiled to a
certain degree by he extraordinary
popularity he has enjoyed. l think
that most of the blunders he mas
made have been due to the fact that
he as been q will call it, the vic
tim (rather tina the beneficiary of
the American peoples unhappy dispo-
sition to exalt a human being. Mr..
Roosevelt is a good man, but if half
of the men who have paid exaggerat-
ed tribute to him had cneered him
when, plainly, he did right and check
ed him when, plainly, he has done
place in history thar that which, in
my view, will be accorded him. If
Mr.. R~oosevelt's admirers had been
more faithful to principles or had
given more practical consideration
to the reforms for which Mr.. Roose-
welt was presumed to stand, then Mr..
Roosevelt would not today be a cham
pion of the Aldrich currency bill or
an advocate of the ship subsidy mea-
sure; his preferred candidate for the
Republican nomination would be Rob
ert NJ. LaFollette, the known i
movable, instead of William H. Taft.
the unknown and unknowable.
w could give to Nebraska's dis
that when he shall be inaugurated
President of the United States he
will be exemp from the mad personal
idolatry to which his predecessor mas
been victim or beneiciary-as you
please. We could give him no fairer
wish than that the same love of
country that dominates the men of
all parties and of no party shall con
tinue to control in his heart and in
their hearts and in the hearts, too,
of rising generations; that the men
of his time shall cultivate the con.
viction that individuals are as moth
ing. principles everything.
above every ambition for Office
however high; above every act of
man however heroic; above every in
dividual or party conquest, however
complexities the sincere purpose
of the humblest patriot to make the
government good enough to live for
and good enough. if need be, to die
for.
However serious the obstacles be-
fore the people today, they will be
lsurmounted in an orderly way and
TO the honor and glory of democratic
government. Translate the meaning
of the rank and file of every Ameri.
can party, and it spells democracy
in its purest sense; translate democ-
racy, and it means the preamble to
the Declaration of Independence. de
scribed by Moses Colt Tyler as "a
passionate chant of human freedom
translate the preamble, and it means
the Sermon On the Mount. Further
we need not go to find inspiration
for a party of American freemen-a
party capable of solving every prob.
lem with which popular governments
is confronted n solving it IN such
a a as to respect the ownership
of every honest dollar and every well
earned inch of soil while lending a
willing and sympathetic ear to the
still, sad music of humanity"