The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21

danger of power to do e good deal Of evil with the good. The chief evil of special interests and special favor. of
 which Mir. Roosevelt has complained in regard to the trusts, is for more con spicuous and far more remediab1e in the case Of the. tariff. Under gufse of the theory of protection the tarif has
 the currency question. Nothing has favors or of obtaining special prfvi- ieges. If the same aroused sense of justice and fair dealing can be applied by Mir. Taft to the tariff question as
 was applied by Mfr. Roosevelt to the trust question we may possibly obtain in the end some permanent relief from domination of special interests.
 Perhaps the most conspicuous O.
 mission of a public question in Mir. Rooseveirs administration has been the surrency question. Nothing has been done to simplify and strengthen our anomalous and complicated cur rency system, for instance by the elimination of the greenback, the re- auction of the quantity and converti- bility into gold of the silver dollar the creation of an elastic bank cur rency and the divorce of bank notes from the government debt. At pre- sent we cannot pay the national debt with abolition of bank notes. But the worst evil of our currency system is one which all gold using nations are having, and this is the depreciation of our monetary standard which was at the bottom of our panic and win have in the next ten years more effect in perverting the distribution of wealth than all the trusts or than any other one cause.
 @Those nearest to Mir. Roosevelt recognize his greatness. He gives
 hanAlaa faEs ksxth hA fu unwilling to run away from criticism when heS has a purpose to carry out.
 "Persoha1ly I have taken great sat- fsfaction in that MT. Roosevelt has taken up the public health movement. This Is really part. as he said In lhis speech last May at the White House, of the conservation of the na- tionai efficiency. the other part being the conservation of the national re- sources. He has prepared the ground for Mir. Taft to create in the Depart ment of the interior. by reconstructing it. great and efficient department of education through which hundreds of thousands of needless deaths and great waste of human productivity can be avoided. MT. Garfield has himself re- commended in his reports the climina- ton of the bureaus in that department which do not belong there and the inclusion of others that do belong there"
 Professor Henry Wade Rogers, Dean of the Law Department of Yale Uni versity:-"It is usually exceedingly dif- flcult to undertake to predict at the time of stateman's retirement from office just what estimate history will ultimately place upon his services. The opinion entertained of MT. Cleveland by his opponents at the time of his deHxh was quite different from that which was entertained by them when he left the White House. The judgment placed on Andrew Johnson now is not at all that of the majority of the people att the time of his retirement. The. fact a man is exceedingly popular with the people when he leaves the Presidency cannot be accepted as any certain guaranty that, history will assign him any very high place among statesmen That is as true as the fact that @ mans unpopularity at the time he leaves the Presidency is no guaranty that history will not assign him a very high place and regard him as. a really great President.
 'Of one thing I think we can be assured. History will. in my opinion, regard Mir. Roosevelt as the most law ICES ETobtQcuI M0 nave ever HhQ m the United States! He has had ap- parently very little respect for any authority except his own. That Is 8 very gave defect of character in any public official, and especially in Presi- dent. Ills criticism of the courts has been frequent and shocking, ana he. has been apparently entirely oblivious to the fact that the judiciary consti- tutes a coordinate department of the government. and as such not within his. province. To undermine the confidence of the people in the judiciary is one of the most dangerous and reprehen- sible things a public man can do. and again and again and again he has assailed the Judiciaty and without req son. He deserves, and in my opinion Will receive, the severe censure of his tory for his lawlessness and his lack of respect for the courts of this country.
 While he Is deserving credit for some things. think that when his- tory carefully sums up the results of his administration it vii not give him place among the really great Presi- dent of the United States. That he Is a remarkable man is not to be de-- nied. We have had no President like him, and probably. will not have for a years to come"
 David starr Jordan, President of. the Leland Stanford. IT,. University:-- Roosevelt will have very high place