The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-23
Less So, Says Speaker,
Because President Hap
pens to Be Family
Connection.
Scores Financial Brig
andS" Whose Methods
We're Bringing De-
StruCtiOn.


| Nicholas LonEworth OF Ohio in a speech
| tonight at the Washington Birthday
| dinner Of the Creve Couer Club, ringing
! by defended his distinguished father-in-
/ law, President Roosevelt, and denounced
the "vituT Grafton and venomous out
pouriass" Of chose who were attempting
TO fasten upon the President response
| bility for the recent panic
These men are the real enemies Of
/ every honest business man." ne de-
| clared. They are the real enemies
OF American institutions, but their ma
lign attacks upon the administration OF
Theodore Roosevelt will not serve 10
dim the ulster of his fame They but
and glory 10 it. They viii not accomplish
their purpose any more than did the
maligners OF Lincoln during his life.
They viii not accomplish their purpose
any more thaa did the maligners Of him
whose memory We honor tonight"
Financial Brigands."
Mr.. Longy orth declared that it didn't
require a great stretch Of Imagina ton
to perceive & similarity between the
silent, unsuspecting, destructive Meth
DDS or the Philippine white ait land
the methods, recently made public. Of
some high priests Of frenzicd finance"
whom he further characterized ss Il
nancal brigands."
He ccntonded tat "to attribute our
present financial condition to acts or
WORDS OF airy enc man is not only foolish
but IN my opinion, criminal
The speaker said he was not present
as au apologist for tie Admlnistratio,
and that he was not there to speay, cor
any one but himself, call the less he
cause the man OF whom I sneak han
pened TO be family connection OF INV
own" '-'
lie said the President had 10 mora
20 DO with the recent New YORK DaDfc
or Whatever you please to .,aII n "
IMAM ne had with the last eruption az
Mt FesuviUs or the Indian plague. bDt
that he would not deny that sos7e n, =
terence about the methods Of soma So
called high hlanciers FASTENED nv
little the time at which some 6nanc,,I
structures erected upon foundations 80
rotteness and dishonesty were bound 10
topple."
Averted Hurricane.
In words which his hearers rscos--
nized almost as a paraphrase Of Roose-
vets previous utterances, Mr.. Long
worth exclaimed:
HAD he sat supinely and allowed
dishonesty of which he knew 10 pro-
coed without his raising his hand
against it. the crash would not have
been long delayed and when it came
II would have been followed by a hurri-
cane compared to VIII ch the uresent
condition is as a zephy-."
lie declared that the Presidents ac-
ton merely disclosed Ito the angry
eyes Of the American people that some
great corporations which existed nv
their sufferance and supposedly for their
benefit were being managed upon a sys- |
tenn OF brIgandase which makes Jesse
James operations like those Of a piker.' /
Mr.. Longworth declared that the ma /
ligners were still at work: that their
attacks were retarding a return of con- 4
hdence; that they were recruited from
the ranks Of stricken zen whose /
methods cannot stand the glare of |
light"
Challenges MaIigners.
Il challenge anyone" lie exclaimed.
TO point out in any speech that the !
President has ever mace. in any mes
sage that he has ever sent 10 Congress.
a single word or a single A4ptcnce which |
can be, by any POSSIBILITY, construed /
as an attack upon any individual, how |
ever wealthy, OF any corporation, how
ever great-prUvided only that me
wealth was acquired honestly and that /
the corporation vas managed 5ecentIy, /
They say that he is not sane AM |
If sanity, according 10 |
their definition. consists in upholdinr /
then none that he is no 1
sane. If conservatism consists in allow.
ing dishonesty to run rampant in the
OF certain great corpora
tons, then I am glad that, according
to that definition he is not conservative.
1.-THE storm 8 passed. the clouds are
and the sun will soon shine
forth upon the most glorious year of
The greatest republic that Il ever shone
upon; republic dedicated to liberty
honesty, and justice. the three great
principles Iostered by Washington, pre-
served by Lincoln, and brought 10 the
highest elimination under the adminfs-
-ration Of Theodore Roosevelt
The speaker said that while he was |
FOR Taft he believed that Cannon vas az |
full Presidential stature