Omaha daily bee., 1912-08-12

faith, otherwise to be described as a
1000 words speech to his Chicago con-
vention, he has definitely abandoned the
republican party as now constituted. He
cannot honestly or logically re-enter In
1916 or at any other time, the ranks from
which he bolted in June last. II republi-
canism. as an organization. is ever to
command his services 1t must approach
him with furled colers in token Of an
abject surrender. Mahomet will not go
to the mountain, but If the mountain
In some now unsuspected eruption of
virtue volcanically rejects its present
wicked leaders, 1t may be permitted to
come to Mahomet. Otherwise the sever
ance Of relations Is complete, for the
colonel has his back to the wall and
proposes to fight II out on the line of no
compromise II it takes all summer. Still
he has been known to change his mind.
Thearies of Social Justice.
New York Times Gnd.): From
Theodore Roosevelt's speech to his
convention at Chicago the best. the
ablest, the most persuasive of all his
public utteranees. we come at last to a
definite understanding of his theories of
social justice, and of his program for
what he calls the industrial democracy.
1t Is unmistakable. Mr.. Roosevelt has
planned, and in that speech he outlines,
a vast system Of state socialism, gov
ernment OF men unrestrained by laws.
To the federal government he would com.
NIT unlimited power, even over small
things: business would be regulated and
controlled from Washington the standard
Of wages would be fixed, inequality in
the distribution Of profits would be at
tended to; he would teach the weak, the
unfortunate and the unemployed to look
to the government for relief. Above the
judiciary he would exalt the administra-
tive officers Of the government, armed
with powers not subject to review by
the courts. And the decisions of the
courts, as he has many times said, he
would make renewable by the people.
Bald Misrepresentation.
Springfield Mass Republican dnd)
Mr.. Roosevelt constantly seeks to create
the impression that any person or news
paper that opposes his third term ambi-
tlon is "reactionary." In his confession
Of faith" he could not resist the tempta-
tion to say: How close is the alliance
between the two machines is shown by
the attitude of that portion Of those
northern newspapers, including the ma
jority Of the great dailies In all the north
eastern cities--Boston. Buffalo, Spring
field, Hartford, Philadelphia, and, above
ALL New York-which are controlled by
or representative of the interests which,
In popular phrase, are conveniently
grouped together as Wall street inter-
ests." Insofar as that attacks this news-
paper It's falsty needs no demonstration.
Advanced social legislation in Massachu-
setts has had the support of the Repub-
lican almost uniformly. We favored the
minimum wage law for women and chill
dren passed by the last legislature, which
Mr., Roosevelt referred to las a basis
from which to start and on which to i'm
prove" He might as we'll charge the
radical Mr. Brandeis with being a tory
because he supports Governor Wilson. as
to charge many newspapers with being
organs of Wall street because they refuse
to help him get into the White House
again.
"Outs" AGainsf the "Ins..
Henry Watterson In the Courier-Journal
The bull moose movement Is obviously
an array of the 'outs" against the "ins."
Scratch bull moose and you shall find
disappointed republican officeseeker or
some disgruntled republican turned out
Of office. The claimants grew too many
for the party.
1t is easier to found a new religion
than new party. 1t used to be said
that we had fifty religions and only one
soup. We have not had as many parties
as religions Yet we have had a few
parties.
Nature seems 10 cast men in two orig
inal molds. turning out on the one hand
the conservative and on the other hand
the radical; but circumstances and en-
vironment play havoc with individuaiism.
1t makes all the difference in the world
whose OK Is gored. Many Of the men
who are rallyins about Theodore Roose-
welt have had an OK that was gored by
Taft. Leslie Combs had his OK gored
in Peru. Brutus Clay had his OK gored
in Switzerland. Beveridge's OK was gored
by the people Of Indiana
Nothing can come Of II but defeat
ignominious defeat There Is little likeli-
hood the ticket thus put in the field will
carry state In the union. The demo-
cratic ticket may carry every state in
the union. It's triumph is assured. what
then? ~