The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-01-22
THE WAR ON ROOSEVELT.
congressman DOUBT The MORAL SINCERITY OF
THE Chief EXECUTIVE


quarrel between President Roosevelt and Congress puts into cold
type the for the action of congress tabg message
from the president We quote follows
The explosive quarrel president cogress is
doubtless deep mystery the average nattenive citizen He
understand the heat either side That had
provocao perceives but for the great
Indignation it easy for him find The puzznent of
the general mind unlike that which American would
who had home after having been the Arctic regions
the pa years He would have left Mr. Roosevelt the hero and
idol he would have found him the subject of attack and denuncaon
Such American sensible would know that this strange
reversal thei effect defective by would
self discovering that He would explanation
which should be- Montaigne difficult OF belief than
the thing o be explain
The of the controversy the bitterness goes
This explosion day week 1t was
single unguared Of the president that all
anmos against him. His rash language let it loose but did not
it The feeling of antagonsm and hostility had long been
gathering If the presidents message had been ALL the
affair could easily have been accommodated So Mr. Roosevelt
evidently thought expected his explanatory message
ceped satisfactory But the long accumulation of dislike
nifty seeking and took this congress
waiting years deliver
their hands, and would not let the opportunity rise and si
All this however, only throws back the question why
should have been heapg intense hatred of the
president Was due jealousy of his popularity Was envy
of his fame? Was his pictorial
None of these things The truth OF the delicate thing
but who has acquaintance with congressman
who knows Washington, have any doubt what that truth
word, that congress does believe President
lsincerit. Il thinks him hypocritca He
the country truthuness congress
believe Mr. Roosevelt himself be habit1aly unutfu He
has posed champion of fair play yet congressman believe him
fight foul They picture him living and deigng
atmosphere of suspicion intrigue and cauy. His talk of the
square DEAL they scott sheer preten They say that he pro-
favor Paul Morton and the Steel corporation while
fuousy prosecuting his enemies those whom he thinks he
make political capital by attacking In Short congress thoroughly
all superior exhortaton which it has had
President Roosevelt has from who allows him
self the thing he condemns in Others
Mind, do say that right about it. We only
what believes be Congesmen be deceed but
there be question that this what they honestly think about the
president From their nearby for from their comparing
notes together from hearing Mr. oRoevel words and watch
ing his they have the opinion have described And
they good chance express by formal action their
vcton of the presidents nsince they could stay their hands
This believe rational explanation and the only complete
panaon OF the action arragnng the president
assertions fact 1t dislike and disust long
smolderng last breaking into flame cherished
of hollow assumptions of higher virtue expressing itself IN
disbelief the existence of the lower virtue of
speaking other theory the
congress refusing all advances patch up the differ
with the president and proceeding record its deliberate
conviction he the thing that 1t simply
congress doing collectively what great majority Of its members
long doing Individually and is passing an
adverse moral Judgment upon Mr. Roosevelt. r
This the business serious for the president
collision of authority he could afford dismiss with smile
quarrel with congress would him from getting
he desires he might snap his fingers at
term nearly Little would be done anyhow Let 60
and hurry off to Africa But the congress strikes deeper
than any fomaty any ranng Of relations In what
pcty SAYS and in conviction that lies behind its words
there Roosevelt which he
diversion which he forget shake off by eyong
through his command the old uzas to attest
undmshed popularity The real meaning of the action of
gress disappova OF the president For the moment he
may profess this He is however much of historian
and too keen politician how deeply viii his f
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