The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-06-30
Saving and Doing.

the United States last Saturday, it
fell to the lot of Mayor w. ]. Gay
nor, Of New York. to extend to him
the first formal welcome to his
home. It was q peculiarly happy CO.
incidence that the man who had
talked himself into the most remark
able popularity Of his generation
should be met and greeted thus by a
man who has been doing things for
the people Of mis- community in most
efficient manner without saying
more than the words necessary to-
order them. The contrast present
ed, says the Charleston Evening
Post, by the meeting of Roosevelt.
the Republican preacher, and Gay
nor, the Democratic worker OF ad-
minIstrative reforms must have
struck good many people with
force, though it seems to have ex-
cited comparatively little comment
Mayor Gaynor's preliminary:
greeting to Col. Roosevelt, has NOV
ed considerable comment. The Out
look, with which Col. Roosevelt has
established a connection. published
in it's issue of June 18, the day Of
Col. Roosevelt's return, messages of
welcome to the distinguished trar-
eler from President Taft. Governor
Hughes, and Mayor Gaynor The
message of the Mayor to Col. Roose-
velt was a fine sermon to the re-
turning ex-President, peculiarly ap-
propriate to the circumstances OF
the case and the person. Mayor Gay
nor extended to Col. Roosevelt the
greetings of the people OF New York
cordially and sincerely enough, but
in very few words. He devoted
himself principally to an interpre-
tation of the meaning of the recep-
ton that had beea given to the Col
onel abroad, and to a dissertation
on the duties of citizenship at home,
and upon the philosophy of demo-
cratic government, with particular
emphasis on the Importance Of ex-
alting law and subordinating per-
sonality.
The chief reason, said Mayor Gay
nor, for the interest displayed by
the people of Europe in Col. Roose-
relt was that having been President
OF the United States and become a.
gain a private citizen, docile to just
authority, he personified in the Eu-
ropean mind the idea OF a govern
ment Of laws as distinguished from
government of men," Mayor
Gaynor continued:
1t is that idea, first vitalized on
this continent, and afterward fol-
lowed as an example in Europe,
by slow degrees and by one ma
ton after another. which shall
always make one who has been in
chief rulership Of this country an
object of profound interest and I
reverence to the rest of the world. !.
In one form or another we ex-. :
pressed it in the beginning in It's
threefold division of power in all
of our fundamental instruments of ;,
government, the loftiness of the
conception being sometimes ex- %
pressed in equally lofty and felici-
tous language as, for instance,
in the Massachusetts bill Of rights:
I'm the government of the COM
monwealth, the Legislative depart
ment shall never exercise the ex-
ecutive and judicial powers, or
either of them; the executive shall
never exercise the legislative and
judicial powers, or either of them;.
the judicial shall never exercise
the legislative and executive pow
ers, or either of them; to The end
it may be a government of laws
and not Of men"
Great problems now confront
US for solution the accumulation of :.
more than two generations OF men
more bent on their individual SUE
cess, if not greed, than on the
veal. No few, but all of US, are ..
to blame for it. either by actual
commission or by Indifference and
neglect. With that era now draw
ing toward its close, let us get
our standpoint anew in this great
conception of government, to the
end that we may lose all fear, as
we most certainly shall, of re-
sort to force to right whatever
has grown up among us that suit
eth not commonwealth, and has
in it the canker of death to gov
ernment Of equal opportunity to
all and favoritism or privilege TO
none.
This, says the Pest, lis sound pol
itical doctrine. indeed. the very gos-
pei of democracy. and certainly no
one more than Col. Roosevelt needs
to read, mark. learn and inwardly
digest it. Just how Mayor Gay
nor's sermon struck him it would be
to know. But it would
be worth the while Of every
citizen Of the United
States to consider the lesson that
was read by Mayor Gaynor TO Mr..
Roosevelt and 10 consider it in the
light of the records OF the two men.
the Mayor OF the greatest city of the
western continent, who is handling