Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-19
WILLET BRANDS
ROOSEVELT PIGMY,
TYRANT, GARGOYLE
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49, 80
Hueuenot, but the French gentleman
doesn't fly into a passion and lash the
horse of a timid young girl whose only
offense is inadvertently passing the royal
party in a public highway. Even Louis
XIV. was not that sort of tyrant. and
Henry w., Henry of Navarro, the great
Huguenot king, wore the white plume of
noblesse oblige.
Would Have Been Branded
HE tells us that southern aristocrats
were among his polyglot ancestors, but l
can inform him that If the wife of Rob-
ert Toombs or of a jefferson Davis had
been treated by him as Mrs. Minor Nor
ris was, he would have been called out
or branded as a coward If he had been
thousand times a president.
"He is proud to insist that the family
whose name he bears comes from Hol-
land, but his ready surrender to the poll
ticians of his own party makes it clear
enough that fat burghers who put up
their shutters at the first beat of the war
drum must have been his progenitors. He
beats the Dutch, however as even his
severest critics must confess.
'Are you shocked that a chief magis-
trate should justify such characterize
ton? 1 am shocked. too. Do you say
that the place he holds should make us
all dumb before him? Hear what this
fountain of Billingsgate has said of his
predecessors in that high office and own
that no mans tongue should be stilled
by such a consideration"
Mr.. Willett here quoted from President
Roosevelt's books, in which the president
is alleged to have attacked Washington,
jefferson. Munroe, Taylor Tyler, Pierce,
and others and said that the president had
federation only for the Adamses, who
stood for Federalist aristocracy, and adj
miration for Alexander Hamilton. the de-
feated champion of a limited monarchy.
Quotes Roosevelt
"Of course" said Mr.. Willett, "these
condemnatiUns roar as gently as any
sucking dove when compared with his de-
nunciation of John Paul Jones as 'pi-
rate of Napoleon the Great as utterly
unscrupulous,' of New England's idolized
Wendell Phillips as always either mis-
chievous or ridiculous and usually both,
of Thomas Paine, the first champion OF
American liberty as "a filthy little atheist,
of misunderstanding Roman Catholics as
persons of arrested mental development,
of Ouakers as quite as undesirable citi-
zens as duelst' But he has been frank
enough in abusing other presidents to
shut the lips of his defenders on the dig
nifty of the presidential Office"
Mr. Willett declared that consistency Is
a Jewel which the gargoyle is always
throwing to the swine" No king, he said,
in any limited monarchy, was ever half
so exigent or ever half so implicable.
For a precedent" he added, you must
go back to Napoleon the Great, the Oldest
member of the gargoyles Ananias club,
who used to ask the wives of his thrifty
favorites whether they could only afford
one gown year, who said once to the
wife of one of his fighting marshals your
dress is dirty and who insisted on doing
alla the matchmaking in his official cir
cle." ryE +t.H
Have King and Court
The democracy cf Lincoln, he said, the
bluff Americanism of Grant and Cleve-
land the equally American suavity Of
Arthur and Mckinley had passed into
history "along with the joviality of Gar
field and the non-conformist thrift Of
Rutherford B. Hayes.
1--WE have a king and a court now"
Mr. Willett exclaimed, "as good an i'm
itation of a real thing known to the
nobility of monarchical countries as the
scion of family trading Dutchman can
concoct." @'
At this juncture Mr. willett called the
rol lof the so-called sAnanias club and
said - r.s 80: uBtg'a. sos
ne GdTNu 10 lhNOAASdLCO anu AONiS
around our popularity He alone is the
personification OF sobriety, temperate
ness of statement, calmness in speech and
action. The ever moving hay-tedder hur-
ries over the field, throwing upward the
clover of politics, the timothy of zoology,
the bluegrass of history, and letting each
blade fall a little drier than it was
before.
Jealousy is Evident
Jealousy you can read in the gargoyles
distorted features.
You look on those twisted lines and 1t
is easy, oh, so easy, to understand the
insolence toward Dewey, the one great
fighter of the Spanisn-American war;
the hero who took Manila with the worst
ships a rotten beauracracyq could find
for him.
THE persistent defamation of Admiral
Schley, who really fought the battle Of
Santiago bay.
1.-The insults heaped upon General
Miles, whose counsel was ignored In the
expensive plumbers of the land cam
paign at Santiago.
1.-THE president" Mr.. Willett declared
showed his teeth at all real heroes, be-
cause real heroes are gall and worm
wood to bogus ones"
BuIldOzed Castro
Continuing his denunciation, Mr.. Willett
charged. that the president had bulldozed
President Castro, has seen the Filipi-
nos brutalIy treated, had marooned COL
onel Stewart, whom he did not like; had
kept young woman from earning an
honest living by telling the truth; had
allowed "scandalous conditions" to exist
in the army and navy; had compelled his
subordinates ito act as hunting dogs for
the car of Russia in trailing down men
who have fought for liberty; had prac-
tically re-established the John Adams
alien and sedition laws; had forced de-
sertions from the navy by allowing intol-
cradle treatment of sailors at 1.-The hands
of aristocracy of Annapolis officers"
had permitted the degrading of soldiers
at West Point who had been put to
mental work and had given a Scotch
verdict in connection with the alleged
Peg anna scandal.
In concluding he said, among other
things: go.
You may say then, that one individual
gargoyle does not count for much after
/ ALL No, not in the development of the
centuries, but he counts vitality and con-
tinuously as affecting the people who
have to live under him. And the change
from a Nero fiddling while Rome is burn
ing to a Vespasian calmly devoted to Sc
curing as good government as tendencies
will permit, is change to be as devout-
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