The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-30
Tuesday, Jun. 80, 1908.
A POPULAR DELusIoN.

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II is a popular delusion to suppose |
that human conditions can impose up
on one man the point OF view and |
temperament OF another, to the extent |
Of making the one the mere echo OF |
the other. No matter whether Pres
!dent Roosevelt hatters himself that
though out of Office he will be the
real power behind the throne and that
his will and purpose will prevail; no
matter whether Mr.. Taft Is ready to
assent TO such an arrangement, the
program could not be enforced. II Is
not within the power OF human nature
TO fetch about any such vicarious use
Of delegated authority. Mr.. Roose-
welt knows It and Mr. Taft knows It.
A classmate OF Mr.. Tafts, who was
herein New Haven last week and who
knows Mr.. Taft thoroughly we'll re-
marked with some show of asperity
that II anyone looked TO see him the
echo of President Roosevelt was not
familiar with the operations OF the
mans mind, We base our affirmation
of the statement not upon the mental
habits Of Mr.. Taft, but upon the i'm
possibility Of Mr.. Taft carrying out
Clny such uncomfortable understanding.
~ Is entirely possible that the two
men should be in earnest accord with
regard to 9 given issue and yet go
about its achievement in an entirely
different way. The attempt on Mr.
Roos1kelt's part to ADOPT the methods
Of Mr.. Taft would land him over the
fence,.while the attempt on Mr.. Taft's
part to adopt the methods of Presi-
dent Roosevelt would leave him in
Ike predicament. Mr. Taft is as de-
termlned as President Roosevelt ever
was TO enforce tho laws OF the land
against wrong doors, or in the interest
of the many but the Roosevelt meth
od, even though he admires It. would
elude his attempt to employ it. II
has never been his way to do what Is
IN the minds OF both.
Many thoughtless people have
charged President Roosevelt with
breach of faith In his failure TO carry
out the policies of President Mckinley,
which he solemnly promised to do
when he took the oath OF office. AS
he understands the policies of his pre-
decessor they related to the welfare Of
the country, and It is the welfare Of
the country he has most sought to
conserve as he sees II. The two men
were In full accord In many things,
but had each attempted at the same
time to carry them into effect In his
own way, the impressions made would
have been contradictory. The mo-
ment the power was placed In the
hands of Mr. Roosevelt the Roosevelt
point Of view necessarily commanded.
II was inevitable and people ought to
have seen It. Just as they ought to see
now that the Taft point of view must
control the moment the power to ex-
ecute becomes his. He could not
change the order of things If he tried
and as his classmate says he has no
intention of trying,
If It were necessary to further H.
lustrate the absurdity of this popular
delusion as to the ability of one man
TO dominate another in the way sug-
gested. one would need to go no fur
Their than study of the temperamants
of the two men would take one. Their
training has been different in every
possible way and ones training has
much to do with the development of
ones temperament Taft has the
Cleveland temperament which Is
methodical, painstaking and conserva-
tive while being progressive, Roose-
welt has the Bryan temperament
which Is impulsive, dramatic and rad.
ical With all four of these gentlemen
IN agreement with regard to giver
issue, two would go at the solution If
one way and the other two in total.
ly different way, They could not helr
it. The kind of president Mr. Taf
will be, If elected, can be Judged anc
can only be judged by the kind o.
Judge he made and by the kind o.
handy man he has been for the ad
ministration wherever he has beer
placed. In each and every one o
these high places 1t has been the Taf
method of work which has prevailed
The same things might have been &C
complished by Mr.. Roosevelt bu
surely rot n tbs same way nor witt