The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-19

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should be stilled by such a consider
alton.
Mr.. Willett here quoted from Pres
ident Roosevelt's books, in which the
president is alleged to have attacked
! Washington, Jefferson, MUnroe. Jack
son, Tyler, Pierce and others. and
said that the president had "tolera-
ton only for the Adamses who stood
for fedeTalist aristOcracy- and admiFa-
ton for Alexander Hamilton. the de-
feated champion of limited mon
aTchy''
"Of course said Mr.. Willett. these
condemnationS roar as gently as any
cooling dove when compared with his
denunciation of John Paul Jones as a
| pirate of Napoleon the Great as ut
terIy INSCRIPTIONS, of New EngIand'S
idoIized Wendell Phillips as always
either mischieyOus or ridiculous and
usually both of Thomas Paine. the
first champion of American liberty.
as filthy little theist.' of miracle
believing Roman Catholics as persons
of arrested mental development OF
QuakeTs as quite as undesirable citi-
Zens as dueliSJS'- But he has been
frank enough in abusing other presi-
dents to shut the lips of his defenders
on the dignity Of the presidential Of
flee"
Air. Willet declared that 'consis-
tency is a jewel which the gargoyIe is
always throwing to the swine" No
king, he said, in any limited mon
archy. was ever half so eXigent or
ever half so applicable For prece-
dent" he added, you must go back
to Napoleon the great. the eldest
member of the gargoyles Ananias
club, who used to ask the wives OF
his thrifty favOrites whether they
could only afford one gown q wear.
who said once to the wife of one of
his fighting marshals Your dress is
dirty and who insisted on doing all
the match making in his official cir
Gle"
The democracy of Lincoln. he said.
the blum AmeTicanism of Grant and
Cleveland. the equally American
suavity OF Arthur and Mckinley had
passed into history, along with the
joviaIity of Garfield ard the nOn-con-
formist thrift of Rutherford p.
Hayes"
We have a king and a court now"
Mr. Willett exclaimed as good an
imitation of a real thing known TO the
nobility of monarchicaI countries as
the scion of a family trading Dutch
man can concoct."
At this jUnctUTe Mr.. WilIett called
the roll of the sO-cslled Ananias club
and said:
The earth is intoxicated and reels
around our popularity, He alone is
the persOnihcation of sobriety. tenn
perateness of statement, Calmness in
speech and action The ever moving
hay-tedder hurries over the field,
throwing upward the clover of poll
tics, the timothy of zoology. the blue
~ bfGfnrr- nd
blade fall a little drier than. it was
before.
jealousy you can read in the gar
goyIes distorted features
You look on those twisted lines
and it is easy, oh SO easy, to under
stand the insolence toward Dewey,
the one great fighter of the Spanish
American war; the hero who took
Manila with the worst ships a rotten
beauracra% could find for him.
The persistent defamation of Ad-
miral Sch'ey who really fought the
battle Of Santiago bay.
The iHshgts heaDed uDon-GeneraL
Miles, whose COUNSEL was ignored in
the expensive bRmders of the land
campaign at Santiago.
''The presidentg Mr.. WiIIett de-
clared. showed hs teeth at all real
heroes. because real heroes are gall
and NORWOOD to bogus ones"
Continuing his tenunciatiOn. Mr.
Willett charged thd the president
had bulldozed President Castro, has
seen the Filipinos brutalIy treated,
had marOOned Col. Sewart whom he
did not like; had kelt young wom-
an from earning an honest living by
telling the truth: Hal allowed scan
daIous conditions 10 exist in the
army and navy. hal comnaIIpd his
subOrdiuates "tO act Is hunting dogs
for the car Of Russia i'm trailing
down men who havefOught for lib
ertv: had practically established
the John Adams alia and sedition
laws: had forced deSFtiOns from the
navy by allowing iIiOlerabIe treat
ment of sailors at It'd hands of the
aristocracy of Ann9oHs officers"
had permitted the dsTading of SOL
diers at West Point 9O had been put
to mental work an had given a
Scotch verdict in connection with the
alleged Panama scanel
In concluding, he said, among
other things:
You may say then that one indi-
Vlduai GdTSoyie does not count for /
much after all. No, Iit in the deyeI-
I Opment of the centuFi4 but he counts /
vitality and continuoJ1y as affecting
( the people who have to live under /
him And the change from a Nero +.
/ fiddling while Rome / burning. To :
/ Vespasian calmly devtod to securing
as good governments tendencies (
will permit. is a CHAMP to be as de- /.
voutly welcomed byhS as nv the
ancient Romans"
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