The Green Forest tribune., 1910-09-16

In the New York Evening Post of Friday, August 26, there appeared in an editorial article the following state ments:
 T will make the corporations come to 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- velt's proved record it is simply dis gusting humbug for him to rant about the corporations upon whose. treasur- CTS he fawned when he was president and wanted their money for his cam paign. Does he think that nobody has a memory which goes back to the life insurance investigations, and that everybody has forgotten the $50000 taken from widows and orphans and added to Theodore Roosevelt's polit- ical corruption fund? Did he not take a big check from the Beef trust, and glad to get 1t? And now he is going to make the corporations come to time! One can have respect for sin
 
 an agitator or leveler who believes that he is doing Gods will; but it 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 a moment between himself and the goal upon which he has set his overmastering ambition
 "'This champion of purity, this roar CT for political virtue, is the man who was for years, when in political life, hand in glove with the worst political corruptionfsts of his day; who toaded to Platt, who praised Quay, who paid court to Hanna; under him as pres- 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; it was Roosevelt who asked liar riman to come to the White House secretly, who took his money to buy IA, wards wrote to My Dear Sherman"- yes, the same Sherman-reviling the capitalist to whom he had previously written saying: You and I are prac- tical men,"
 The Ewing Post is not in itself suf- ficiently important to warrant an an- swer, but as representing a class with whose hostility it is necessary to reck- on in any genuine movement for de- cent government, it is worth while to speak of it. There are plenty of wealthy people in this country, and of intellectual hangers-on of wealthy peo- pie, 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 be in favor of any aesthetic move. ment; they will favor any movement against the small grafting politician, against the grating labor leader, or any man of that stamp; but they can not be trusted the minute that the re- form assumes sufficient dimensions to 1eopardize so much of the established order of things as gives an unfair and improper advantage to the great cor poration, and to those directly and in directly responsive to its wishes and dependent upon it. The Evening Post and papers of the same kind, and the people whose views they represent would favor attacking a gang of small bosses who wish to control the Re publican party; but they would, as the Evening Post has shown; far rather see these small bosses win than see a movement triumph which aims not merely at the overthrow of the small political boss, but at depriving the corporation of it's improper influence over politics, depriving the man of wealth of any advantage beyond that which belongs to him as simple American citizen. They would be against corporations only after such corporations had been caught in the crudest kind of criminality.
 have never for one moment count ed upon the support of the Evening Post or of those whom it represents in the effort for cleanliness and de- cency within the Republican party, be cause the Evening Post would support such a movement only on condition that it was not part of a larger move ment for the betterment of social con- ditions. But this is not all. In the struggle for honest politics there is no more a place for a liar than there is for the thief, and in movement de signed to put an end to the dominion of the thief but little good can be de- rived from the assistance of the liar. Of course objection will be made to my use of this language. My answer is that l am using it merely scientifi- cally and descriptiyely, and because no other terms express the facts with the necessary precision. In the ar ticlo in which the Evening Post comes