Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-18


out 0r branded as coward lf Doc bud
been o. thousand times pres don't
'1fc ie proud to insist that thC family
whose namo De- bears comes from Hole
land but Dds ready surrender t0 the
politicians off his own party m1kcg DO
clear enough that Fat hurghors VINO
put zap their shutters at Che hfst heat
of the war drum must have been h'e
progcnitors. We beats the Dutch. howe
cver Us even his sovcrcat critics must
confess
"Aro you shocked that "a chicr Wtt-
istrate should Justify such charactcrI4-
aton2 . am shocked too. DO YOU say
that the place DE holds should make
us uU dumb before him? Hoar what
this fountain of biluuggatc has s'Id
Of DIS predecessors ln that high ONCE
and own that no mans tongue should
oc t.led By such a consideration.
QUOTES PRESIDENTS BOOKS.
Ho quoted from President Roosevelts
books loo which the president is alleged
90 have attacked Washington. Jeher-
son. Monroe. Jackson. Tyler, Pierce ana
others and said that the president HAD
liberation only Tor the Adamses VINO
stood for fcderalist aristocracy and
admiration for Alexander Hamilton.
the defeated champion OF a limited
monarchy"
"Of course" said Mr.. Wulett. "these
COMBINATIONS roar as gently as any
cooling dove when compared with MS
dcnunciation Of John Paul Jones as
pirate, OF Napoleon the great as nut
terly unscrupulous, Of New England
idolized Wendell Phillips as always
either mischievous or ridiculous ana
usually both OF Thomas Paine, the
d. A 20 .
a hlthv little atheist OF miracle be-
Heving Roman Catholics as persons OF
arrested mental development Of Quak-
ers as quite as undesirable citizens as
duoiists' But he has been frank enough
in abusing other president 70 shut the
lips Of his defenders ON the dignity OF
the presidential office.
Mr. Wuiett declared that "con-
sistence IS Jewel which the gar
g0yle is always throwing to the swine.
30 king, he said, I'm any limited
monarchy was ever half 80 eNigeant.
or ever half so implacable. For
president" he added. "'you must 60
back TO Napoleon the Great. the
Oldest member Of the gargogle's
Ananias club who used 60 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 hghung marshals. Your
dress IS dirty and who insisted on
doing an tho matchmaking in his OF
ncial circles
The Democracy or Lincoln. he said.
the blud Americaniem OF Grant and
Cleveland the equally American
suavity OF Arthur. and Mckinley had
uassrd into history. along with the
joViality of Garfield and the non-con-
formist thrift of Rutherford B. Hayes
A KING AND A COUNT
eve have q king and count now
Mr. Willett exclaimed. as good an
imitation of a real thing known 70
the nobility OF mOnarchial countries
as the scion of "a family OF trading
Dutchmen can concoct'
AT this junction Mr.. Willctt call
ed the roll OF the so-called Ananias
club. and said
THE earth is intoxicated and reels
around our iocularity. Tie alone is
che personincation OF sobriety, tenn
perateness OF statement. calmness In
speech and action The ever-moving
hay tcdder hufrles over the field,
throwing upward the clover Of poll
tics. the timothy of zoology the blue
grass of history and letting each
blade a little drier than Il was be-
fore
Jealousy YOU can read in the
Eargoylc's distorted features You look
ON those twisted lines and il Is easy,
oh. SO easy 60 understand the inso-
lence toward Democracy, the one
great figure of the Standardization
war. the hero who took Manila with
the worst ships a rotten bureauc-
racy can find for him.
1.-THE persistent defamation OF Ad-
miral Schley. who really fought the
battle Of Santiago bay.
"The insults heaped on Gen. Miles.
whose counsel was ignored in the eX-
pensive blunders Of the land campaign
OF Santiago"
The president. MI winett declared,
showed his teeth at all real heroes, ''bc-
cause real heroes are gall and worm
wood TO bogus ones.
CONTINUES DENUNCTATrONS.
Continuing his denunciation, Mr.. Will
lett charged that The president had
bulldozed President Castro, had seen
the Filipinos brutally treated had ma
rooned Col. Stewart whom he did not
like. had kept a young woman from
earning an honest living by telling the
truth, had allowed "scandalous cOndi-
tons 10 exist IN the army and navy, had
compelled his subordinates TO act as
hunting dogs Tor the cAflr OF Russia lu
trailing down men who have fought for
liberty" had practically rc-established
the John Adams alien and sedltiou
laws; had forced distortions from the
navy by allowing intolerable treatment
OF sailors Fat the hands OF the aristoc-
racy Of Annapolis officers" had permit
ted the degrading OF soldiers az West
Point who had been put 20 mental work,
and had given a Scotch verdict IN con-
nection with the alleged Panama scan
dali
In conclusion he said among other
things.
you may say. then. that one individ-
ual gargoyle does not count for so much
after an. No. not in the development
of the centuries. but ne counts vitality
and continuously as affecting IN the
people who have 10 live under him.
And the change from a Nero adding
while Rome De- burning to Nespasian
calmly devoted 60 securing as good gov
eminent as tendencies will permit, IA
"a change 20 b. as dcvoutly welcomed
by us as by the ancient Romans
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