The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-12
SOME ursTon1c UNDERTAKING..

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SOME HISTORIC UNDERTAKING..
1t is very poor consolation for n
| man who is Justly abused to say that
| other men have been uniustly abused
| The right in the one case does not
lessen the wrong in the other, and the
fact that the good man was harshly
! dealt with does not reduce the crime
of the man who receives that meas
urc of public dsapproval which he de-
serves.
Representative Kahn. of California,
! does not seem to take this view of
| conditions, however, and he has taken
vast deal Of pains to prove that the
Republican party to-day should not be
dismayed at the abuse which it is now
receiving from every quarter He in
ssts that so did the muckrakers per
| secute the Prophets and SO did the
seducers, of public men deal with the
Fathers. Some of the quotations which
Mr.. Kahn discovered in ancient news
papers and pamphlets from the Ii
brary of Congress are reproduced by
the Cincinnati Enquirer with a good
deal of -complacency These are
very interesting. though they do not
prove that Cannon and Aldrich are
receiving more than they deserve on
their own account
When General Washington was
about TO retire from the Presidency
and was seeking that quiet which he
so well deserved after his years OF
service, the Republican Aurora paid
him this neat compliment:
az ever nation was debauched by
man, the American nation has been
debauched by Washington If ever q
| nation has been deceived by man.
the American nation has been deceived
| by Washington
Not to be outdone by it's yellow
morning contemporary of Philadelphia,
tile New York Gazette had this to
say regarding the Father of His coun-
try:
NOW should the people rejoice eS-
ceedingly and let their hearts be glad
for now is the source of all misfor-
. tune brought down to the level oil MS
. fellow-men Now will political ini-
ouity cease to be legalized by name.
In the next administration Adams
came in for even worse treatment a!
the hands of the men who had black
guarded General Washington, and who
had learned by the time the SECOND
President was chosen how abuse
should be framed In one of the Re
publican sheets occurs this TRADE
THE historian will ask why the
United states degraded themselves tc
the choice of a wretch whose sou
!. came blasted from the hand of nature
of wretch that has neither the sci
ence of a magistrate, the politeness OF
a courtier nor the courage OF man
But in order to give the Presi
i dent fun Justice we must recollec1
that the perhdy and imposture OF M:
Kidneys have correspondent proper
tion to the crack in his upper story
], that as Dryden says, every men "hici
is not fool is rogue that the nov
blasted tyrant Of America, that ruitia'
who stigmatized the Governor OF VIZ
ginia as a minister recalled in dls
!, grace, is supereminently entitled no
only to laughter. but likewise TO tn
curses of mankind
In like manner Jefferson was sal'
to have obtained his property o.
fraud and robbery and to have CHEAT
, ed a widow and her orphan chiidre
> of an estate valued at $4,000. He wa
/, also charged with swindling his cred
. itors by paying his debts in worthies
= currency John Quincy Adams, tina
= ancient prototype of Fairbanks tn
! lev, was referred to in similar term:
and Andrew jackson. foster-father c
. Democracy, was called "the baboon q
the other end of the avenue" and othe
names which can hardly be printe'
even in quotations atathis time.
If this be consolat ton to the ME
who are being abused in the yello
4 nress. they may make the most or l
10 but a public which aeplores the e.
l. cesses of the yellow Journalists vi
~ not fail to make its own comparison
~ between Aldrich and those whose ma
e. tyrdom he apes.