The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-09-15


rrlday' August 26, there appeared in
an editorial article the following state.
ments:
l will make the corporations come
70 time, shouted Roosevelt to the
mob But did he not really mean
that he would make them come down
with the cash to elect him, as he did
before? For man with Mr. Roose.
velts proved record It is slmply dis.
gushing humbug for him to rant about
the corporations upon whose treasur.
ers ne fawned when he was president
and wanted their money for his cam
palgn Does he think that nobody has
a memory which goes back to the life
Insurance investigations. and that
everybody has forgotten the $4,000
taken from widows and orphans and
added to Theodore Roosevelts polit-
ical corruption fund? Did he not take
big check from the Beef trust, and
glad to get It? And now he is going
to make the corporations come to
time! One can have respect for a sin.
cere radical, for an honest fanatic. for
an agitator or leveler who believes
that he is doing Gods will; but 1t is
hard to be patient with a man who
talks big but acts mean, whose eye Is
always to the main chance politically,
and who lets no friendship. no gen
erosity no principle. no moral scruple
stand for moment between himself
and the goal upon which he has set
his overmastering ambition
"'This champion of purity. this roar
er for political virtue, is the man who
was for years, when in political life,
hand in glove with the worst political
corruptionists of his day; who toaded
to Plat, who praised Quay, who paid
court to Hanna; under him as presi-
dent Aldrich rose to the height of his
power, always on good terms with
Roosevelt; 1t was Roosevelt who, in
1906, wrote an open letter urging the
reelection of Speaker Cannon, against
whom mutterings had then begun to
rise; II was Roosevelt who asked Har-
riman to come to the White House
secretly who took his money to buy
votes in New York and who after
wards wrote to my Dear Sherman
yes, the same Sherman-reviling the
capitalist to whom he had previously
written saying: you and ! are prac'
teal men,"
The Evening Post Is not In itself sui.
flciently important to warrant an an
swer, but as representing a class with
whose hostility 1t is necessary to reck-
on In any genuine movement for de-
cent government, 1t is worth while 10
speak OF It. There are plenty OF
wealthy people in this country and OF
intellectual hangers-on of wealthy peo'
ple. who are delighted to engage IN
any movement for reform which does
not touch the wickedness of certain
great corporations and Of certain men
of great wealth. People of this class
will he IN favor of any aesthetic move
ment. they will favor any movement
against the small grating politician
against the grating labor leaoer OF
any man of that stamp; but they can
not he trusted the minute that the re-
form assumes sufficient dimensions 10
ieonardize so much of the established
order Of things as gives an unfair ana
improper advantage to the great COT
noration. and to those directly ana III,
diractlv responsive to its wishes anu
donendent upon It. The Evening fos'
and naners of the same kind, ana Ihe
neonle whose views they represent !,
would favor attacking a gang Oh Sn,ai
hosses who wish to control the ne
publican party; but they would as ".
Euanjnq Post has shown, lar ra'nei
see these small bosses win imam see 60,
movement triumph which aims NJ NJ
merely at the overthrow OF the snas, a
no,;ticaI boss. but at depriving lne
pornoration of It's improper inhuenet
over notifies. depriving the man .,
wealth of any advantage peyonu .n%,
nhich belongs to him as a s,i"pie
hnnor,can citizen. They Woulu ..
AGAINST corporations only aiIer SUE tSl
corporatIons had been caught !"
crudest kind Of criminality
have never for one moment coun :,
81 mon the support OF the hVehln NE
Post or of those whom II rep' nS de-
tn V' the effort for cleanliness ana % Se
cencv within the Republican pa, ", or
oe the Evening Post would supP t'nr
O~cb a movement only on eonu ii,,,a
spot # was not part of larger now oop
rn@, for the betterment OF soc'aI o tbt
ditiors But this is not an t. ~,
Struggle struggle for honest politics there tto Is ~ I,
0o Gree place for liar than tnet' do :,
for the thief, and in a movement snmIr,oI
signed to put an end to the ,o ao' pe de-
- The thief but little goou can .,o w liar
VI r,vs e from the assistance OF n .na l'T +,
or ,TV course objection will De Nv Hi oDswe,
w NV use Of this language MY ANITA ANITA
In that nat am using it merely s Socous,
"a,Iy and descriptively' anu o,s viii
cS'i Stber terms express the fac, us E, ~
no o'nO' -, nrecislon. IN 'He a.