The Falls City tribune., 1910-09-16

IN Jne view 10TH hFeHlDS IobI VI
Friday, August &c, there appeared In
an editorial article the following state
ments:
1T will make the corporations come
10 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
before7 For a man with Mr.. Roose
veit's proved record II is simply dis
Eusting humbug for him to rant about
The corporations uron whose treasur
ers he fawned when he was president
and wanted their zone for his cam.
1aISn. Does he think that nobody has
q memory which goes back to the life
insurance Investigations. and that
everybody has forgotten the $50, DOC
added to Theodore Rooseyelt's polit-
icaI corruption fund? Did he not take
a big check from the Reef trust. and
glad to get II? And now he Is going
to make the corporations come TO
timei One can have respect for a sin
WV laultdit " I'll hOAltHt idudlf'b ibi
an agftator or leveler who believes
hat he liz doing Gods will; but 1t is
nard 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
er for political virtue, is the mar who
was for years. when in political life,
hand In glove with the worst political
corruptionists OF his day: who toaded
10 Plat, who praised Quay. who paid
court TO Hanna: under him as presi-
dent AldTioh rose 10 the height of his
power. always on good terms with
Roosevelt: II was Roosevelt who, in
1906, wrote an open letter urging the
reelection of Speaker Cannon. against
whom mutterings had then begun to
rise. II was Roosevelt who asked Har,
riman to come to the White House
secretly, who took his money to buy
votes In New York, and who after
Yards wrote TO my Dear Sherman
yes. the same Sherruan-reyiling the
capitalist to whom he had previously
written saying: You and l are prac-
tical men"
The Evening Post is not In itself suf-
fciently important 10 warrant an an.
swer. but as repres snting a class with
whose hostility 1t ~ necessary to reck-
on In any genuine movement for de-
cent government. it Is worth while TO
speak OF T. Toere are plenty of
wealthy people IN this country. and of
intellectual hangers-on of wealthy peo-
lie, Who are delighted to engage in
n movement for reform which does
not touch the wiekedness of certain
greet corporations and of certain mel
~ r. II wealth. People of this class
wiz De IN favor ot any aesthetic move
marf. they Will favor any movement
eeefest the small grating politician
against the grating labor leader, oil
any man of. that stamp; but they can
not be trusted the INFINITE that the re
form assumes sufficient dimensions Il
~feopardize so much of the established
order of things As gives an unfair an
Improper advantage to the great cor
roration, and to those directly and IN
directly responsive to its wishes AM
dependent upon 1t. The Evening Pos
and papers of the same kind. and TIL
1.-nya nknun ViaVcg thaV rnnTHEEnt
would favor attacking a gang of SINAI
bosses who wish to control the Re
publican party: but they would, as tn
Evening Post has shown. far rattle
see these small bosses win than see
movement triumnh which aims nc
merely at the overthrow of the sma
political boss, but at depriving tn
corporation of its improper inhuenc
over politics. depriving the mar {
wealth OF any advantage beyond ths
which belongs TO him as a simpl
American citizen. They would b
against corporations only after sue
corporations had been caught in tn
crudest kind of criminality.
| have never for one moment coun
ed upon the support of the Eyenin
Post or Of those whom it represen'
in the effort for cleanliness and d
oency within the Republican party, b
cause the Evening Post would suppo
such a movement only on conditiC
that 1t was not part of a larger NOV
ment for the betterment of social co
ditions. But this is not all. In Il
struggle for honest politics there is
more a place for a liar than there
for the thief. and In a movement d
signed to put an end to the domini'
Of the thief but little good can be
rived from the assistance of the lit
OF course objection will be made
my use OF this language. My answ
is that l am using 1t merely scisnti
cally and descriptively, and becau
no other terms express the facts wi
the necessary precision. In the
tioIs In which the Evening Post com