The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1910-09-22

Friday, August 26, there appeared in
meRts:
al will make the corporations come
to 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
before? For a man with Mr.. Roose-
velt's proved record 1t is simply dis
gusting humbug for him to rant about
the CORPORATIONS upon whose treasur-
ers he fawned when he was president
and wa"tcd their money for his cam
paigr. Does he think that nobody has
a memory which goes back to the life
Insurance Investigations, and that
everybody has forgotten the $4,000
taken from widows and orphans and
added to Theodore Ronsevelt's polit-
ical corruption fund? Did be not take
a big check from the Beef trust. and
glad to get it? And now he is going
to make the corporations come to
timei One can have res e. 4 So
cere radical, for an hone ~" for
an agitator or leveler -" H~'0vcS
that he is doing Gods ~; h"+ i -
hard TO be patient witt " -" Who
talks big but acts mean, -~~" o." &c
always to the main chance ro't""'v.
and who lets no friends - ~ ~ "
crosby. no princi-Ie. no n """' srr'"'o
stand for a moment hetv "i"N-
and the goal upon which 30 has g:
his administering amhit;O-
This champion of purity. N:~ r"""
er for political virtue, is the ~ ""
was for years, when in politi,G' t"
hand in glove with the worst polls al
corruptionists of his day; who toaG~"
to Patt, who praised Quay. who paid
court to Hanna: unger him as presi-
dent Aldrich rose to %ne height of his
power. always on good terms with
Roosevelt; 1t was Roosevelt who, in
1906. wrote an open letter urging the
reelection of Speaker Cannon, against
whom mutterings had Their begun to
rise; It was Roosevelt who asked Har-
rimaR to come to the White House
secretly, who took his money to buy
votes In New York. and who after
wards wrote to Wy Dear Sherman
yes, the same Sherrnan-reviling the
capitalist to whom he bad previously
written saying: "Y5u and I are prac.
tical men"
The Evening Post is not in itself SUI
fciently importan: to warrant an an
swer, but as rerres anting a class with
whose hostility it ,s. necessary to reck-
IN IN INV 0onuip. movement for do
cent government, IL is worth while to
speak OF It. Tnere are plenty of
wealthy people IN this country, and Of
intellectual hangers-on of wealthy peo-
rIe, who are delighted to engage in
any movement for reform which does
not touch the wickedness OF certain
great corporations and Of certain men
Of great wealth. People OF this class
will be in favor of any aesthetic move.
mont; they will favor any movement
against the small grating politician,
against the grating labor leader, or
any man of that stamp; but they can
not be trusted the minute that the re-
form assumes sufficient dimensions to
teopardize 30 much OF the established
order of things as gives an unfair and
improper advantage to the great cor
poratton, and to those directly and In
directly responsive to It's wishes and
dependent upon It. b Evening Post
and papers Of the same kind, and the
people whose views they represent,
would favor attacking a gang OF smah
bosses who wish to control the Re
publican party; but they would, as the
Evening Post has shown, far rather
see these small bosses win than see a
movement triumph which aims no
merely at the overthrow of the small
political boss, but at ~depriving the
corporation Of It's improper influence
over politics, depriving the man OF
wealth of any advantage beyond that
which belongs to him as a simple
American citizen. They would be
against corporations only after such
corporations had been caught In the
crudest kind Of criminahty.
/ have never for one moment count
ed upon the support Of the Evening
Post or Of those whom 1t represents
In the effort for cleanliness and de-
.cency within the Republican party, be-
cause the Evening Post would support
such q movement only on condition
that it was not part Of a larger move
ment for the betterment OF social con-
ditions. But this Is not all. In the
struggle for honest politics there Is no
more a place for a 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 de-
rived from the assistance Of the liar.
OF course objection will be made to
my use of this language. Ny answer
is that / am using it merely scientif-
caIly and descriptively, and because
no other terms express the facts with
the necessary precision. In the ar
ticle In which the Evening Post