The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1910-09-16

+ In the New York Evening Post ~
Friday August 20. there appeared IN
an editorial article tho following state.
. meuts
/ I viii make the corporations come
| 20 time. shouted Roosevelt TO the
mob Hut did he not really mean
| that he would make them come down
/ with the cash 60 elect him. ~ he dld
/ hefore7 For n man with Mr. Ruosc.
/ volts proved record II ~ simply dla.
/ gus'iug humbur for him to rant about
the corporations upon whose trcasur.
| crs he faWncd when no was prcsid nj
| and wanted their money FOR HIS cam.
/ pB'En Does no think that nobody has
/ n memory which goes back To- the life
/ insurance NEGOTIATIONS. nud that
| everybody has forgotten the $50 600
| taken from widows and orphans and
/ added 90 Theodore Rougoyclrs rolit.
I teal corruption fund.- MD he not take
: a biz check from tho Reef trust and
glad 20 get ~ And now he ~ going
io make tho corporations como to
time ono can have respect for ain.
c"ro radical for M honest fanatic. for
an ag'iator or lovoler who believes
that be- iB doing Coda will. but II IN
hard to be- patient with man who
talks biz hut acts mean whose eve iH
always to the main chance politically.
and who let's no friendship no gen.
crosby no principle, no moral scruple
stand FOR moment between himself
and the goal upon which he has set
hts ovormnsterlnE ambition.
"'Ths champion ~ purity. this roar
cr FOR political virtue. n the man who
was for years. when In political life,
hand In glove with the worst political
,orruptlonlsts N his day: who toadod
TO Plat. who praised Quay. who paid
court 10 Hanna; under him as prosi-
dent Aldrich rose to the height Of his
power. always on good terms with
Roosevelt: n was Roosevelt who. In
1906. wrote an open letter urging tho
reelection of Speaker Cannon. against
whom muttorlngs had then begun to
rise. II was Roosevelt who asked llar.
riman To come Ia the White House
secretly. who took his money 10 buy
votes In New York. nnd who after.
wards wrote to My Dear sherman
yes, tho same Sherman tho
capitalist TO whom no had previously
written saying. You and are prac.
tlcNl men,"
The Evening Post ~ not IN Itself fuf
nclontly important 10 wnrrrnt an an.
swcr, but nH representing o class with
whose hostility Il IL nocoWary 10 rock.
on IN any genuine movement for de.
cent government II IL worth while to
FT"ok NJ n There are plenty Of
wcol'hy Tcorlo In this country. and OF
intellectual hargorson Of wealthy pco.
pie. who are delighted 10 engage In
any movement for reform which does
not touch the wickCdncaa ~ certain
great corporations and Of certain men
Of great wealth People Of this class
will be- In favor Of any aesthetic move.
mont, they viii favor amy movement
against the small grating politician.
against the grating labor leader or
any man ~ that stamp; but they can.
not b. trusted tho minute that the re-.
form assumes sufficient dimensions 10
ioounrdi7o 20 much NJ the established
order N things ns gives an unfair and
lWrrnrCr advantage 10 the great cor.
pora'ion. and 10 those directly and In.
directly responsive 10 its wishes and
dependent uron A. The Evening Post
and raTors NJ tho same kind. and the
people whose Views they represent.
would favor attacking q gang Of small
hoFaos who wish 10 control the Re.
publican marty but they would. as the
Evening Post has shown far rather
sec these small bosses win than see
movement triumph which aims not
merely nj iho overthrow Of the small
political bose but at deprlyinE the
CORPORATION of ltE improper influence
over politics. dourivlng the man Of
wenlth M any advantage beyond that
which bclorg 10 him as simple
American clifton They would be
against corporations only after such
corTorations had been caught IN the
crudcst kind NJ crlmlnality
have never for ono moment count.
cd ur0n the support of the Evening
Post or Of those whom a represents
I'm tho effort for cleanliness and de-
rcncy within the Republican party, be-
/ cause the Evening Post would support
such movement only on condition
/ That n was not part Of a larger move
mont for the hrttermcnt OF social con
| ditions But This Is not all In the
/ struggle for honest politics there rs no
more place for liar than there Is
FOR tho thief and In II movement de
signed 10 put an end 10 the dominion
I 4
rived from the assistance Of the liar
or course objection win be made 10
my use Of this language My answer
n that am using II merely scicntln
cally and descriptIyely, and because
no other terms express the facts with
the necessary precision In the Rr.
dele In which the Evening Post comes