The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-02-21
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hair furniture a-discussin' of hollow
moralities.
With his hands full of Lin
coin letters as texts and with six
subjugated newspaper correspond
ents as receptive pupils, Mr.. Roose-
welt broke out the other day in New
York in a lecture to what he called
his "first-class in applied decent pol
itics." Isn't this great? So timely
and commendable. No cry has been
more persistent or lusty than that
great gobs of decency should be in
jected into our rotten politics. We
have needed it for long time and,
it pains me to say, at no time more
than when he himself was Presi-
dent.
During his brilliant incumbency,
from 1904 to 1908, when wings and
harps and halos and decent poll
tics" and things were strung all
over the White House, 100 plants
representing thirty-one billions, six
hundred and seventy-two millions of
dollars were brought into trust or
CARNATIONS, right in the midst of his
terrific trust-busting career. If
there was anything left worthy of
a trusts notice, it must have been
an inadvertent oversight, for the
country was swept clean as a plat
ter, (Please move over a little, I'm
Gle Reub, need more room and
air.
Now, what I'm driving at is this.
After he has fully saturated that
gulping class with the spirit of Lin
coins letters, to get him to relieve
the tedeum with an occasional apro-
pos reference to some interesting
incidents in the tempestuous life of
Gen. Jackson. There are some,
fancy, that would fit in nicelywith
Lincoln's letters to McNall. For in
stance, take the Biddle case, which
would be sure to stir up some fond
"reminiscences, at least in the mem
DRY of the Prof. of the chair of
applied decent politics" Mr.. Bid
die, representing a group of power
full capitalists whose baleful influ-
ence upon political affairs was then
similar to that of Wall Street now,
went to the President and delivered
the following ultimatum, red hot
from the griddle:
Gen. Jackson, we have the pow
er to make and unmake Presidents,
Governors and Congressman. We
have the power to make prosperity
or bring ruin to the people"
IF that be true said Old Hick-
DRY, fire flashing from his steel-gray
eyes, then you have a d--n sight
more power than ought to belong to
any set of men in a free country,
and | shall appeal to the people to
strip you of that power"
or course it would never occur to
that guileless and trusting class,
who are so charmed with his strid-
ent and noisy parade of morals, al
belt they smack so strongly of self
laudation, to ask their spotless pre-
ceptor what he did, when Wall
Street, in concentrating that crown
ing menace to commercial independ-
ence and freedom, the gigantic steel,
Trust, went to him in 1907 and, with
the air of a dictator, said exactly
what Biddle said to Jackson in
1882. Surely they'd not "stob" the
Prof. with a brutal epigram like
that, Uncle Reub says 'compari-
sons are too odious," and present
company should always be except
ed" and "it's cowardly to strike a
man when he's down" Besides, the
Disguised woodcocks and hoot-owls
are busy rending the welkins from
Devils Lake to Niger Bend. So,
ION with the dance"-but it's a pity
the Prof. hasn't many, many more
than six disciples. SUGGS.