Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-02

IN tne new YORK Evening EOst u
Friday. August %, there appeared In an
editorial article the following statements:
II will make the corporations come to
time" shouted Roosevelt to tie mob. But
did he not reilly mean mat he would
make them come down with the cash to
elect him. as re did before7 For a man
with Mr.. Roosevelts proved record II is
simply disgusting humbug for him to rant
about the corporations, upon whose
treasurers he fawned when he was presi-
dnt and wanted their money for his cam
paign Does he think that nobody has a
memory which goes back to the life in
surance Investigations. and that every
body has forgotten the $4,000 taken from
widows and orphans and added to Theo-
dore Roosevelt's political corruption fund?
DID he not take a big check from the Beef
Trust, and glad to get Il? And now he is
going TO make the corporations come to
timei One can have respect for a sincere
radical. for an honest fanatic, for an agi-
tator or leveler who believes that he is
doing Gods will; but il is hard to be pa
tient with man who talks big but acts
mean, whose eve is always to the main
chance politically. and who let's no friend
ship, no generosity, no principle no moral
scruple stand for moment between him
self and the goal upon which he has set his
overmastering ambition.
This champion Of purity. this roarer for
political virtue, is the man who for years
when in public life, hand in glove with the
worst political corruptionists OF his day;
who toadied to Plat. who praised Quay,
who paid court to Hanna under him as
president Aldrich rose TO the height of his
power, always on good terms with Roose-
Welt; IL 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 Hartman to come to the White
House secretly, who took his money to buy
votes in New York, and who afterwards
wrote to MY Dear Sherman"-yes, the
same shrman--reviling the capitalist to
whom he had previously written, saying:
You and are practical men,"
The Evening POST is not In itself suf-
ficiently important to warrant an answer,
but as representing a class with whose
hostility It is necessary to reckon in any
genuine movement for decent 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
people, who are delighted to engage in any
movement for reform which does not touch
tho wickedness OF certain great corpora
tions and Of certain men of great wealth
People OF this class will be in favor of any
aesthetic movement; they will favor any
political movement against the small
grating politician, against the grating
labor leader, or any man OF that stamp,
but they cannot be trusted the minute that
the reform assumes sufficient dimensions
to jeopardize 50 much of the established
order of things as gives an unfair and inn
| proper advantage to the great corporation,
and to those directly and indirectly re-
sponsive to its wishes and depending upon
IT. The Evening Post" and papers Of the
same kind, and the people whose views
they represent, would favor attacking a
| garg of email bosses who wish to control
the republican 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
bass. but at depriving the corporation of
its improper Influence over politics. de-
priving the, man Of wealth of any advan-
| taee beyond that which belongs to him as
/ Sihpio <AmoTlCdll Clti1ell. IHey WOulu De
against corporations only after such cor
porations had been caught in the crudest
kind of criminality.
GAL TWO MENDACIOUS JOURNALISM
| 1 have never for one moment counted
upon the support Of the Evening Post
or OF those whom II represents in the ef-
fort for cleanliness and decency within the
republican party; because the Evening
POST would support such movement only
on condition that it was not part Of a
larger movement for the betterment OF so
cial conditions. But this is not all. In
the struggle for honest politics there IL
no more place for the liar than there
is for the thief, and in a movement de-
signed to put an end to the dominion of the
thief, but little good can be derived from
the assistance of the liar. OF course OBJ
| lection win be made to my use OF this
language. My answer is that am using