Bisbee daily review., 1910-10-30
"FRoTh
 AND FOAM"

Senator Foraker, discussing Colonel Roosevelt, says that all of insurgency that is not advocacy of a reduction of the tarif schedule is ''froth, foam and false pretense." In saying this he merely turns a striking phrase to tell truth that has been told many times and by many persons during the present campaign.
 It would be extremely interesting to know why Theodore Roosevelt has not become an insurgent in fact in stead of a make-belieye insurgent whose activities resemble those of the ''parlor socialist" who drives to pink tea in an automobile and dis cusses the evil of unearned increment while living fatly upon inherited wealth.
 They are mistaken in their judg- ment who argue that Mir. Roosevelt
 is not a man of sufficiently large mental ealiber to grasp the signif- canoe of the tariff system as an i'm moral influence in American politics, and to realize that Of all moral ques- | tions to be considered by sincere stu dents of the science of government none is paramount to an economic question involving the proper distri-
 button of the fruits of labor. It does not, for that matter, require any ex- Iceptional mental equipment to under stand that when the pockets of 1000 persons are picked to fill the pockets of ten the system is as immoral as the vocation of burglary. No one of any intelligence sincerely contends that protection" as it exists today is not guarantee of artificial profits for one class at the expense of the entire population of the country. Colonel Roosevelt is an exponent of pportunism rather than an advocate oS any principle, with leaning toward -i,.,,n ,-bo-a ,-;-.,, ,,ro,,y-,, 4to ,a ward of popularity. It is somewhat strange that he has not seen a bril- liant opportunity in actual insurgency instead of ''froth, foam and false pre- tense.-
 When he was in office, and enjoy ing degree of popularity unprece dented he might have launched into a campaign in congress for a down ward revision with better prospects of success than President Taft had when he made his tardy and rather Falstaffan attack upon the tarin mak- CTS. somewhat more substantial body than Falstaff's forty knights in buckram, by the way. His admirers were sure that he would eventually arrive at consideration of the para mount questionable greatest moral issue. But he went out of office leav- ing to President Taft a duty wholly unfitted to a man of his temperament
 Many admirers of Colonel Roose- welt were sure that he would join the insurgents upon his return to Ameri- ca. That would have been the obvi- ously popular course. From the As souan Dam to Ossawatomie it looked as if he might fulfill in greater or l less measure, the expectation of many persons who believed that he
 would rather be right than regular. But since Saratoga, and despite ex.
 plantations. he has stood with Mir. ! Cannon whose frank standpatism has
 made him an tissue" for several
 years. It is curiously interesting tc
 see leader who so hotiy proclaims
 himself reformer. undergoing great
 endorsements rather than tackle
 the one evil which, above all others
 would give popularity to him as it:
 assailant
 It was vigorously contended by tho White House publicity agents during the long session of the Fifty-nintf congress that the Roosevelt-Cannor pact, under the terms of which 'morr urgent administration measures" were to be passed, prevented the president from sending tariff message. MT Cannon's standpatism was declared tC