Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-11-15
revelation Of essentials, is turthest

from their thought
IL they have read history they do
not apply it--certainly they do not
take 1t home to themselves. II they
have been taught some of the .rudi-
ments of the Constitutional System
under which they live they do not as.
simulate them to current affairs, or
associate them with prevailing condi-
tons. further than To assume that
since they have endured hundred
years they will last thousand, and
that they need no particular attention.
To them the reminder that eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty" has
little meaning. They hold IL simply
'demagogic Clap-trap.
or course they have studied human
nature not az all. Nothing could be
surer or palmer than that the return
Of Theodore Roosevelt to power
commissioned TO carry out the terms
OF his declared program, would he
the substitution of arbitrary rule for
the restraints OF established law. 10
every intent II would mean life-tenure
and autocracy. such as the French
had under Louis Napoleon and as the
Mexicans have under Porfirio Diaz.
Yet not one of the soc who voted at
Cornell for Roosevelt could be made
70 see or understand this, notwith-
standing the splendid exposition of DR..
Schurman, their beloved and learned
Master.
Ii was his conception of this which
lured Theodore Roosevelt into an un.
tenable attitude to perpetrate Il 81.
gantic blunder. He did not take into
account the Republicanism of the Re.
publican party, the underlying Repub.
licanism of a great majority of HID
countrymen, being In point OF fact q
patrician a. heart, and not i'm his Ma
ture a man OF the people. He wa,
born to a pedigree, clad as n child
I'm silks and satins, reared to every
kind or refinement. A delicate lad.
he was yet possessed by the spirit
OF the aristocrat and the cavalier
He chafed against the affectionate
and solicitous restraints OF the sweet
est of homes and the fondest Of moth
ers. He put himself forward as Cock
of the Walk at school. He came West
and set up for cowboy. Al length
he doomed at the front in time of war
as Rough Rider. Alterations main
| ly; for he is actually fine gentleman,
highly cultivated and highly gifted.
since Napoleon Benaparte the most
acute minded and active bodied man
| in all the uniyerse-to whom tho
airs OF bullying he gives himself arl
the slangy words he uses, come mere
! ly as SPIRITS to catch woodcock; GT
vices to keep up tie boyish Illusion
of Teddy Bear; democratic refrains 10
conceal the scholarly elegance and he
condescending spirit behind them.
lie has shown a genius for affairs
rivaling that Of any poten:ate who
ried himself, when appearing in his
real character as king OF men, res
plendently. His good fortune has
kept him company whilst his play con-
tinued expert as 1t mostly has been
There Is a point, however, beyond
which II is not in mortal kind to 60
AS one who, perhaps unconsciously
to himself, menaced the Institutes of
his country, Theodore Roosevelt may
be declared no longer dangerous The
man on horseback is at last dismount.
ed and afoot. Happily, the dagger O.
Brutus has not gone deeper than the
outer garments of the Colonel, ard.
IL Caesar will but return to his better
self and join with us in shifting wrong
hip and thigh, and without regard to
party. the CONFECTIONERY, always his
friend and never his enemy, viii re-.
iOice as of a brand rescued from the
burning.
All. well-a-day, as viii Irwin would
say. and bad cess to it," as DoOley
would say. Robert Collier and clifford
Pinchot "spachless." The cry Back
from Elba," saying which was at
once significant and ominous. has
proven likewise prophetic. Let us
hope tho Napoleonic smile will 90 no
further Theodore Roosevelt cmulat-
ing the great Bonapartc, has already
lasted longer. The Corscan was GJnc
fer AT five and forty The New York.
or has passed his ffy-sccond birth
day. Shall the next chapter in the
strange, eyentful history OF Theodore
repeat the words Of Roseberry In his
closing chapter touching the last phase
of Napoleon? They arc wondrously
analogous. We quote them as fol
lows: