The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-10-13
Dour DAMNED sPoT.r

There Mas strange d6ings when
Lady Alachcths greal perturbation
caused q voting gcntlewoluan TO call
in 4 doctor Of phy.ic 10 diagnose tho
case
The gcntIoYomen-h-watlng do'
acribcd tle "slumbery agitation Of
Lady Macbeth Who said in her sleep
that which she hcsiascd % report =
dbsa9G1SSHRse'. 9G1SHs'io71 ita1If sfstb6t ellsi iyft iss9ft't
cd by the physician agQ per attend
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We quote;
Doctor What Il Il she does now2
Lock how she rnbs her hands
"Gentlewonan--It III ~ an accustomed
action with her 10 thus seem washing
her hands I have known her 70
continue IN this quarter OF an hour.
Lady Macbeth Yet here's d spot.
Ont, damned spot; ont say One,
two why. then It's time TO 10 It, Hell
Is mhrky The Thane OF Fife had
wife; where Is She now2 What,
will these hands ne'er be cleaned?
@e Here's the smell OF blood still;
all the perfumes Of Arabia viii not
sweeteh this little hand Oh OH OH
" There's knocking at the gate Y
Theodore Roosevelt was as close 70
the makers OF the New York Repnb-
lican platform at Saratoga as Lady
Macbeth was TO the Thnme Of Cawdor
when she bade MIN screw his courage
TO the sticking place. The masses
ft. t, "a mil "a A
gracious Duncan who came as 4 guest
TO be murdered most foully IN the cas-.
tie of his hos,,
In his Aat ania speech Mr.. Roose'
Yet shifts the blame for the Saratoga
tariff plank as Lady Macbeth proposed
10 do when she assured her lord and
master that II anyone dared doubt
that the murder iaa been done by the
groons who were smeared with blood
from their own daggers, the real mur-
derers should make their griefs clam
or and roar upon Duncans death.
During his term as President Mr..
Roosevelt was always fighting corpor-
atioDs or race suicide 80 vigorously
that he had no time TO think Of the
tariff issue which was then, as aow,
the most important issue OF the times
He talked continually about the 4great
moral reforms" but avoided discus
sing the great immoral fraud to the
continuance of which his silence gave
consent. He now seeks to avoid the
issue by puttlDg upon the shoulders
Of someCae else the blame OF the mur.
der of Duncan at Saratoga. The
grooms are smeared with blood and
the grief of Mr. Roosevelt since the
insurgents of the West cry out against
the crime. clamors and roars upon It..
But the most industrious midnight alb.
lutions can not avail The damned
spot will not out The perfume ol
Arabia can not remove the evil 0dOr
OF spilled blood, and make sweet the
hand that drove the dagger home.
I'm his whole career. and that car
eer has always been one of self
proclaimed, oft proclaimed and loudly
proclaimed champion Of equality in
privileges. Mr.. Roosevelt has never
lifted a finger against the graft that
Is paramount. II IL characteristic Of
him that he would be judged not by
The platform At Saratoga, but by what
he said. lie invariably prefers to be
Judged by proclamation rather Than
by performance II Il unimaginable
that the insurgents in the West will
be satisfied with Mr.. Roosevelt exer-
cising something more than the pre-
rogaiiye of royalty. automatically de-
cares that he will not be held to ac-
count for the misdoings OF conyen-
tion he bossed
The main fact for consideration Is
that Duncan was murdered and that
he was slaughtered in the home OF
his supposed friends