The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-13
ROOsEvELT's GOOD TIME.

Mr., Roosevelt is reported in the dis
patches as saying on his return from
his trip through the old West, that he
had fine, enjoyable time. No doubt
he found it so; but how about the
other fellows that he WAS able to deal
with as though they were public of
tenders and as though he were on the
war path to get their scalps2
To be sure. he yelled his animositios
TO very large extent by denouncing
impersonally those to whom he is op.
posed as rascals, scoundrels, public
offenders, and so on; but for the most
part it is understood that he simply
means those whom he dislikes per-
sonally by this sort of vitupcration;
and that he considers any one who does
not receive him as the latter day
savior of the country, the illustrious
hero of popular rights, the exponent of
all that is great and good in public
life, as the one against whom he must
aim his shafts. In the melee that he
stirs up his ''spear knows no BROTHER
US he has affirmed heretofore; and no
one who is under the ban of his dis
pleasure for the moment escapes the
scorch that he administers to every
foe
AS he returned eastward he seems
to have found more objects of his per
sonal enmity than in the regions fur
tber west. When he got to st Paul
he managed TO put President Taft in
an eclipse, and to bar him out from
all commendation, or even mention, in
the resolutions of the Conservation
Congress. When he got to Milwaukee
he found lance already couched
against him, in the hand of Mayor
Seidel. Then he took up his own lance
and threw it full at Senator Lorimer,
and made tangle in the Hamilton
Club in Chicago which 1t will be ex-
ceedingly difficult to straighten out.
He left in that part of his tour wake
of destruction as though tornado had
passed by.
But he has had grand time. Sure
enough! His strenuosity demands that
or something should suffer |
when he appears In Africa it is big |
game or little game, whatever appears |
IN front of his gun. In Europe he took |
a shot at the Vatican, but met re.
bluffs in Scandinavia. The death of |
King Edward served to quelch his
feverlsh activities in Great Britain,
and on his reutrn home he announced
that he was going TO take two months
Of absolute rest and quiet, and that
f anybody undertook to quote him as
saying anything, that man would be
4 liar. But he got into a scrap in New
ork politics far inside of the two
months limit, stole President Taft
away from "the old guard'' in New
ork; and had warming up round
here preparatory to his departure on
he trip West, which he announces that
ie so much enjoyed. An ordinary
crap would be calmness itself to
Mr.. Roosevelt. He has to have some
hing very much out of the way or
lie mopes. To make him really enjoy
llmself he has got to have a chance
o tilt at some body and cause anguish,
'ain, and discontinue wherever any
me shows disposition to stand erect
nd not fall down and worship 1t was
great trip-for Roosevelt; IL was
retty bad trip for the country, though,
o far as great demonstrations of an
roval to Roosevelt went. But, with !
he thoughtful citizen. this trip of
Tc l,n
arnest concern, and unless Mr. RAose- &
cit can be shown to be out of his
'ind, the best thought of America ,
,nst dePlore such exhibitions as he has I
lade of himself and must reflect very
erlously on the future of Roosevelt as
disturbing element, inin,ical to the
eace, good will, and stability of the