Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-02-28
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Roosevelt Preach !. c,;..,
sV' to Perform.
HARD WORDS HURT NO ONE.
Msiesaeters Of Wealth Not Disturbed
ay White House Denunciation.
cryan Tells Bankers How to Secure
an Elastic Currency-Long Session
indicated For Republican National
Convanfiop
BY WILLIS j. ABBOT.

ny WILLIE De ABBOT. Is
Former Representative and Senator
Charles A. Towne was in Washington
recently and fn the course of an inter
view expressed some views not wholly
in accordance with those of other shin
ing lights Of the Democratic party. Mr..
= Towne does not sympathi2e with the
tendency Of many Democrats, notably
Mr.. Bryan and Bourke Cochran, to ap-
piaud the president. He is more in ac-
cord with Representative Champ Clark,
who not long ago delivered a very
forceful speech attacking the <presiden-
tial policies and commenting very bit
mgly upon the presidential manners.
Mr.. Towne said: The Democratic par
~ does not owe to. Theodore Roosevelt
as doctrine Of the greatest good to the
greatest number, and it can go on
championing the welfare of the many
as against the interests of the few
without rellnQuishing its great princi-
pies of home rale, local self govern
ment, the preservation of the autonomy
of the states and the restoration and
maintenance of the balance among the
coordinate bBanches of the national
government. believe that the country,
While determined to take no backward
step in maintaining the rights of cti-
zens against the encroachments of cor
porations, is inclined to pause awhile
and take stock, so to speak, of recent
achievement. / believe the people are
ready Ito welcome a president who
would be content to enforce the Jaws
without seeking also to enact and in
terpret them. / believe, in short, that
it would be both patriotic and polite
for the Democratic party to promise
the nation a lucid interval of constitu-
tional government"
It must be admitted that there is
some foundation for the recent gfbs of
Mr.. Payne, the Republican leader. in
the congress, that half the Democrats
were applauding the president and
half condemning him. But the con
trast, after all, is more apparent than
real. For example, when Mr. Bryan
speaks, applauding certain of the ac-
lions of the president, the newspapers
which are hypnotized by the Roosevelt
ton that part Of his address, but re-
frain from publishing his criticisms of
the president The effect is to make it
appear that he gives unreseryed APP
prevail TO all that the president has
said and to all that he has done, a
difficult thing for any public man to
accomplish, because most of the things
Pnncnrn1f fh,
things that he has failed to do.
-. The Case of the Muskrat.
Somebody who must live along the
banks of canal where muskrats are
not merely nuisance, but a positive
menace, wrote plaintive inquiry to q
New York paper the other day com
pairing the presidential cutlery with the
repeated threats Of a farmer In his
neighbOrhoOd to go out and kill
muskrat-threats that were never full
filed. And he asked why everybo
should turn in and applaud the man
who was always promising to do this,
but had not as yet slaughtered one sol
itary rat The editor sagaoiously re-
sponded that the correspondent might
know something about muskrats, but
he knew nothing about politics. BY
pursuing the policy which he repre-
hended the violent foe of the muskrat
would get the applause and the votes
of every man who thought that musk
rats should be exterminated, while by
not doing anything against the vermin
he would get the support of the musk
rat colony and those who thought lit
should be left alone. The analogy is
perfectly clear. Thus far the oratory
of the administration has made for
President Roosevelt or his political
legatee, Secretary Taft, millions of,
friends among the people who do not
diferentiate between preaching and
practice, between calling criminals
hard names and actually sending them
TO jail. 1t has not very seriously af-
fected the RooseVeltian dynasty with
the malefactors of wealth, who read
his violent messages with their tongues
in their cheeks and go on with their
malefactions
Currency Reform Again,
The other day. Andrew Carnegie. Ly-
man ]. Gage and Victor Norawetz, a
prominent financial lawyer of New
York, addressed the Economic club of
that city on the banking and currency
question. They declared, that the Unit
ed States had thefwoTst system in the
world, but no one of them suggested
the way to mend it. All three pleaded
that it should be handed over to a
commission Of experts who should
formulate measure to be enacted into
law, which Of course would carry the
question over the next election. Mr.. |
Bryan, who was present, was asked to |
respond to their arguments AS the
press associations and daily newspa-
pers made scarcely any pretense of !
covering his speech, some of bis para !
graphs in retort may well be quoted !
here:
How shall explain that three conspicu-
Gus financiers who had given this subject
great thought and who know all the in
tricacies of finance should be agreed upon /
but one proposition, and th@&4s that they
do not know what ought TO be done?
AS each one approached the important |
part OF the subject he concluded that we
ought to have q commission 70 consider +
the matter Is it not strange that the
commission is always resorted to by those |
who do not care to elaborate before an /
election plan that might not be popular
at the election? Is 1t not strange that all |
of our great financial programmes are i
brought out just after the election when /
the people cannot sit in judgment upon |
the subject?
These greenbacks which have been de- /
scribed in uncomplimentary' language /
were not issued by me or by my party |
But 1t seems to me that it is strainfng /
point to denounce the government for is I
suing 346, co., 900 promises to pay, bearing 4
no Interest, when he-ex-Secretary Gage
does dRnn11nnn he fccl1 af