Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-01-19

3tt1A ~ - "
is always throwing to the swine. NO
king. he said. in any limited mon
archy, was ever half so cXlgeant OF
ever half so 'implacablc.' For q pre-
cedent," he added, you must go back
to Napoleon the Great, the oldest
member of the g~argoylc's Anahlds
club. who used to ask the wives or
his thrifty favorites whether they
could onlv afford one gown a year,
who said once to the wife of one OF
his fighting marshals your dress Is
dirty and who insisted on doing all
the matchmaking in his official CIR
cles." The democracy of lincoln, he
said, the bluff amerioailism of Grant,
and Cleveland, tho equally american
suavity of Arthur and Mckinney had
passed into history along with the
ioviality of Garfield" and the mon
conformist thrift of Rutherford b.
Hayes"
w have a king and a court now
! Mr.. Willett exclaimed, "as good an
imitation Of q real thing known TO the
nobility of monaTchial countries, as
the scion of a family of trading
Dutchman can concoct.'
At this juncturc Mr.. Willctt called
the roll of the so-called Ananias CLUB
and said:
1.-THE earth is intoxicated and reels
around our popularity. He alone is
the personfication of sobreity, temper
atoncss of statement, calmness in
speech and action. The ever moving
hay tcdder hurries over the tlcld,
throwing upward the clover of poll
ties. the timothy of zoology, the blue
grass of history and letting each blade
fan a little dryer than it was before.
Jealousy YOU can read in the gar
goylcs distorted features. You look
~, thAGa fxrtgtgi limos and il is easy.
oh. so easy, to understand the inso-
lencc toward Dewey. the one great
figure of the Spanish-American a
the hero who took Manila with the
worst ships q rotten bureaucracy
could find for him.
"The persistent defamation of Adj
miral Schlcy, who really fought the
battle of Santiago bay.
THE insults hcaped upon General
Miles. whose council was ignored IN
the expensive blundcrs of the ana
campaign at Santiago
The president, Mr.. Nillctt declared.
showed his teeth at all real heroes
because real heroes are gall and
NORWOOD to bogus ones
Continuing his donunciation, Mr..
Willett charged that the president had
bulldozed President Castro, had seen
the Filipinos b~rutally treated. had
i1dTIOutu AOlOiltl lNtN ait NiftlH III
did not like. had kept a young woman
from earning an honest living by tell
ing the truth, had allowed scandal
Gus conditions" to exist in the army
and navy, had compelled his subor-
climates ITO act as hunting dogs Tor
the car OF Russia, in trailing down
men who have fought for liberty
had practically rc-cstablishcd the John
Adam alien and scdition laws; had
J f,rnaJ lncAtttapG fppfp tho naNNy nv al
lowing intolerable treatment of sailors
"at the hands of the a~ristrocraCy of
Annapolis officers had permitted the
degrading OF soldiers at West Point
who had been put to mental work ana
had given a Scotch verdict in n
ton with the alleged Panama canal
scandal.
In conclusion he said, among other
things:
you may say, then, hat one indi-
viduai gargoyle docs not count for so
much after all. No. not in the de-
Velopment OF the centuries. but he
counts vitality and continuously as af-
fecting in the people who have to live
under him. And the change from 4
Nero fiddling while Rome is burning
to a Ncspasian calmly devoted to Sc
curing rs good government as tend
encics Will permit, is a change to be
as devoutly welcomes by us as by the
ancient Romans"
Mr.. Smith, of Missouri. pleaded for
pensions for certain militfamcn of Mis-
souri,; Mr.. Langley. of Kentucky, did
likewise for sons of his constituents.
Mr.. Norris. Of Nebraska. attacked the
house rules: Mr.. L%arringaga. of Porto
Rico. presented argument to show that
Porto Rico had not progressed pOlti-
caily and Messrs. GOuldcn( of New
York. Powers, of Mississippi. and
keifCr. Of Ohio, discussed the merits
OF the pension bill.
At sos p. M. the house adjourned.