The Cairo bulletin., 1908-01-11
Al TON B. PARKER
ON ROOSEVELT
CHARGES EsIDENT WITH cAus-
ING PANIC BY VIOLENT AND
NOVEL EXPERIMENTS"
ONE DAY OF DEBAUCH
"lmpractical ldealisms couched IL
AIIurinr If fr Non-LooicaI
Phrase" Caused Our
Panic.

!, Kingston n. Y, Jan. 10.-Eeforc al
assemblage of political associates o
his home county of Ulster, Judge AL
ton B Parker, Democratic candidate
70. the presidency IN 1904, spoke to
night of the causes of the recent
Credit Panic" and of what he con
sidered the dangers or putting ''un
1 tutored idealism" in charge of ma
ldinner given by Ulster county Demo
Gratis at which Judge Parker was the
grest of honor. Judge Parker spoke
in part as follows:
why should we deny that we are
human? Why should we claim that
we are superior beings and cannot
be edaway for a time by clap-trap
and tinsel by frohty verbiage; by old
motions of universal panaceas al.
lurngly tricked out in glittering
lphrase? Why thank heaven, we still
all are young. and we affirmatively
claim the right as a tribute to our
Ijuyenescence to be led away, from
time to time, by impracticable ideal
Ialiuring If non-logical phrase. What
matters it to us-so we feel in the
humor-if stark starring madness be
the underlying Pre- rcposition, Let VS.
have our day Of national intellectual
debaueh-if all the world be gone
merry-mad together.
And 1t has been worth the price.
in our public experience and for
tunately came when we could stand
tour general health was active,
substantial resources was over
whelming and we have staggered
through, when any other nation at
any time or even this nation at any
other time, could not have borne the
strain of the crazy application of fan
tastic ideas to conditions as complex
as those of a great nation. In all
we may say that 1t is for.
tunate that we have second assur-
ance that the experiment shall not be
again repeated from the same identi.
sal source-ti timorously we trust that
the assurance may be relied upon
fervently we hope that breathing
spell may be afforded us-that no
more new wine may be suddenly
poured into old bottle with further
disastrous effe. Progress? OF course
we look for progressive hope for
intend that in this land, !
before all other lands and in the van
of human endeavor, here in this coun-
that progress shall be steadgast |
gaining step by step of assured |
ground. A general steady ameliora
tion of conditions for all; as well in |
the future as in the past as well for
The poor as for the rich, as well for
the able as for the disabled, as well |
for the farmer and merchant as for
the servant and master. And all un-
der that broad charity which like an |
Aegis true freedom extends in protec
asylum beneath her sheltering arm.
Put never again, IL we are wise, a
rcpitition of an essaying upon the
body polite of almost every doctrine,
,f astutely mingled socialism and i'm
disguised in high-sounding
phrase, but carefully Disseminated in
application to personal enemies and
United to specific unpopular individ-
ials.
ITO what cause can we attribute
he profound uncertainty in the
stability of the attending conditions
If property which has resulted In
he throwing over of evidences of
'tored-up wealth by the entire COM
the abandonment of those
orms of property which, being visible
AN be attacked and grasping in
,tead by the commnnity-apparently,
,nly for the purpose of useless reten-
icn-of actual money: the one form
# wealth which becomes dead when
'etained. but possess that one quality
low temporarily regarded as all-im-
capacity of being con.
,caled? The answer is to be found
n the simple fact that there has been
/ determined attack upon property
IS such.
"Our. actual wealth today staggers
he belief of the world. Our condi-
ions are so prosperous that our rail
'oads need the expenditure of hil-
ions of dollars to enable them to
iromptly distribute our products. Our
'opulation-true index of favorable
onditions-rises' by great bounds.
DIR lands are titled in ever-increasing
ress. Our agricultural conditions
III mining conditions. improve and
improve. almost visibly from day to
ay. Yet amid all this great I'M
novn. underlined dread--a fear that
Ve shall none of US be allowed to re
ain the results Of our toll. but that
D a renewed exploitation OF wild L