The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-14
AN IMPEACHMENT THE
 PRESIDENT MUST MEET

New York Evening Post.
 i"e explosive quarrel between the rresI
 dent and Congress is. doubtless A desn r,vs- csnnot .4 r1 .ne average. inattentive citizen. He 1a. 1anot understand the heat on either side
 rhat Congress had some proyocStion
 Tare n"sceives; , but excuse for the great excite for him to find The puzzement of tbs raS etSI mlho Is not unlike that which an american would have who had just cama gions for the past four years. He wopfd re nave !eft MT, Roosevelt~the hero and idoi. ne would have found him the subject of at
 If sensible man. would know that thIs strange reversal thIs effect defective, comes oy cause, and would set himself to discov- explanation which should be: as Monta,rna says, not more difficult of belief thar 9hs thing to be explained 'ie
 The true account of this controversv and me bitterness. goes far back. This exrIo- sion IS not matter of a day CT week. tSs m was pss,S nSs single unguerded utterance of lty against him. His rash IauKuaKe let f. loose, but did not cause it. The feeling of antsgonism and hostility had long been gathering in Congress If the Presiaent's message had been all. the affair could east " nave been aceommodated. So Mir. Rcose- explanatory message to be accepted as sat lsISGtory. But the long accumulation of dislike and enmity was seeking vent and IL teok this one. Ii was If Congress had been waiting for years for the Lord to deliver Philistine into then hands and would not let go the opportunity to rise
 All this. however. only throws us back on the question why Congress should have President was It due to ieaiousy of iu bis popularity? Was it envy of his fame? Was it even resentment at his dictatoriaI man nsrs? None of these things. The truth of the matter Is delicate thing to state but no one who has any acquaintance with Congressmen, nc one who knows Washing nlh xvha hal n is. It is. In a word. that Congress does not believe in President Roosevelt's moral sim cerity. He has lectured lt and the country on truthfulness. yet nine out of ten Con gressmen believe Mir. Roosevelt himself to be habitualiy untruthfuI. He has posed men believe hIm to fight foul. They pie ture him as living in, and dellghting In, an atmosphere of suspicion. intrigue, and cal- umny. Htg talk ot the square deal. they scoff at as sheer prstence. They say that he protects favorltes such as Paul Morton prosecuting his enemies. or those whom he thinks he can make political capital by at tacklng- In short. Congress is thoroughly convinced that all the superior moral ex- hortation which it has had from President Roosevelt, has come from a man who allows In himself the thing he condemns in others
 Mind, we do not say that Congress Is
 right about 1t. We only state what 1t be- lieves to be true. congressmen may be this is what they honestly think about the President. From their nearby view foI years. from their comparing notes togeth | CT, from their hearing Mir Roosevelt words and watching his acts, they have come to the opinion we have described. And when they had a good chance to express by formal action their conviction of th'
 Presidents insncerity. they could not stay | their hands. This, VIC believe, Is rationa explanation of the action of the House IT ! ara igning the President for assertions Fun founded in fact" It has dislike and dis
 trust long smouldering, at last breakini i out into flame. It was cherished resent ment at hollow assumptions of higher vir ! tue, expressing itself in a verdict of disbe | lief in the existence Of even the lower Yir
 tue of speaking the truth On no othel 1 theory can we account for the pera1stenc' of Congress In refusing all advances t'
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