Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-25
A WALL STREET VIEW OF Mr.. ROOSEVELT

Col. Roosevelt $ d"traCtOrS cannot claim that
all Of ''Wall street" is for him, Judging by the
uttcrancCS of the Financial and Commercial
Chronicle of New York. Il journal close to some
Of the big financial interests. This paper cdi-
t"riaIly says:
In course of many speeches per day, inter
SWrScd with pagc-loDg XculpatOry statements,
Mr.. Roosevelt naturally let's al unintended adj
mission slip sometimes Whirling across Con
nctiCut, he attempted to ridicule Governor Will
sons misfortune in having Il platform on which
he could not keep more than one leg AS for
himself, no platform troubles him, for he stands
just where his feet happen to be at the moment.
The tariff he losses aside jauntily. He will take
that up later he said at Bridgeport; but in seven
years in Washington he passed it by, referring
to it once, in moment of candOr, as one of sew
eral subjects which "do not interest me-" He is
anxious, he says, to see tariff commission,
which experience has shown to be device for
delay But in an unguarded moment he said
that this talk of the tariff is simply red her
ring ACROSS the trail, to distract the attention of
the people from the real needs of the situation"
There are real needs then, which must not be
obscured by the cred herring" tariff. They are
Having the people discuss things in the school
houses; governmental regulation Of the issll-
ance of securities of the business of insurance,
of everything; "the increase of the peoples par
ticipatOn in their own government" The same
old story that has been dinned The tariff her
ring can wait The federal government per-
sonified by Mr. Roosevelt, is to be all and do all.
He loudly declares that the treatment of the
trusts problem has been failure, but his own
proposition means nothing else than absolute
control of business from Washington.
What he has spoken and written in the last
eight months amounts to volumes, in bulk, and
in it all with the singh exception of the recall
of Judges and decisOns) there is not one def
mite thing. He speaks to the people as if they
were children; put your hands in mine, he says,
and all shall be well. He has had seven years,
and he left the country worse than lie found it;
yet now everybody shall have his wish AMI no
child shall ask for the moon in vain Observe
this PROMISE "tO bring about a new era in our
national life, insure prosperity for all, prevent
industrial unrest and give to the people their
rights"
How, how? Not shred of information: let
the children trust in him us their All-Father. n
torrent of words here, torrent of other words
there; but not a glmmer of specific account as
to by what means this delightful era is to be
brought in. All we can gather is that it is to
begin as soon as this superman resumes his seat
as the ruler of everything.
Either this is the extreme Of childish folly or
Mr. Roosevelt is himself fOunt of blessings.
To these who keep their powers of Judgment I'M
impaired he seems far otherwise. In his desire
to he surrounded by courtiers in his Unsuitable
vanity, in his dislike of Judges and disrespect
for written constitutions, in his indifference to
his own pledges, in his caprice, in his disposition
to bpStow gifts on his favoriteS and punish those
he deems his enemies, Mr.. Roosevelt is the very
mark and pattern of the deSpot of all history.
Under rhetorical gcneralitieS about the pcOpl"
ruling themselves and coming into their own, he
asks to be set up as the virtually uncontrolled
ruler of all affairs, large or small. Is the couln-
try will to jump into absolutiSm?
Mr.. RooSevcItS personal chase for power, dis
guiScd under Il pretended political movement
which would instantly collapse if he were re-
moved from it. would seem Il jest if it were not
CHASTITY and mcnacing possibility.