The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-22

much To see MT. Roosevelt put htmgen on the same unpleasant level.
 Is our contemporary altogether sure that his connection with The Outlook will be creditabie to an ex-President. or that he cares whether It is so or not2 When told that stiilman. one of the big Standard oil manipulators, owns controlling interest in The Out look he replied that it did not inter- est him who owned the publication. as he would be responsible for his own contribution to 1t. Such q declaration can mean only one of two things: either he has very poor conception Of what sort of inference will be drawn from such a connection or else he cares nothing for it. He ought to know that he will to a certain degree be looked on as an employe of Stand ard oil. and that If that corporation is as bad as he himself has repre- sented it he will necessarily get some of the odor of it. and the intelligent sentiment of the American people will so look at 1t.
 The same may be said of Roosevelts proposed connection with Hearst and his newspapers. The latter carries on the most discreditable Journalism. in broad sense. that this country has seen, and 1t has come to be regarded as not to any mans credit to be in his employ as an editorial writer. Does not Mir. Roosevelt know that if he be- comes one of the editors of the Hearst papers he will surely be regarded as a man of the Hearst pattern? If he does not know thisshe must be an ex- ceedingly obtuse individual
 The truth of the matter Is that if Roosevelt takes an editorial position on The outlook and on the Hearst pa- pers it will be done partly from de- sire to keep himself conspicuous and partly from a desire to make pile of money. Above all things he can least bear the idea of becoming in- conspicuous or of disappearing from the public view. He probably reas- ons that writing articles for the pub iications named will cause him to be talked about and thus his inordinate vanity will be gratified.
 But there Is a money side to it that has an important bearing on his fu- ture. and apparently governs his mo- lives. whether he is afraid of dying in the poorhouse. or whether he is am- bilious to get into the Rockefeller class We do not know, but it is plain by future are all made with an eye to the money that can be made out of them. His contract with one magG- zine to write up his African trip at s1 per word was simply good bar gain made by him on the strength of the position he holds, for we do not believe the publishers even imagined that anything he could write would be worth anX such extravagant price They were calculating that q lot oi details-many of them imaginary, ws predict-written by ex-President Roosevelt would increase the circula. ton and sale of the publication ant thus put money in their purpse. Il was a bargain made on both sldeI with a view to the profit that coult be derived from 1t.
 And so with his real or contemplat ed contracts. We do not know how much The Outlook is to pay him, bu we've no doubt that 1t is much nor liberal salary than would be paid t, any of the really competent writer of the country. and will be paid hin not because of his literary qualifca
 tions, but because he is Theodor Roosevelt. Hearst, 1t is stated, offer
 him $30, 900 a year. and if he does no accept the job 1t will be because h.
 sees a chance to make more at some thing else. To sum up the who'll matter what Roosevelt is after for tn
 future is money and notoriety, an, he doesn't care a snap about question
 of dignity or propriety. Tn fact. V
 are surprised that an intelligent con
 temporary should imagine that sucl things will have any bearing wit Roosevelt. Put money in thy purse,
 is the motto for him.