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

NoI. I"'S"Ecll ; d"tidct"fS cannot CiallH tlliil
all Of "WaIl street. is for him, Judging by the
uttcranccS Of tn, Financial and Commercial
Chronicle Of New York, journal close to some
Of the big financial interests. This paper ctli-
toriaIly says:
In course Of many speeches per day inter
SpeIScd with pagelong eXcupatOry statements,
Mr. Roosevelt naturally let's an unintendcd adj
mission slip sometimes. Whirling across Con-
nectcut, 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 iauntily. He will take
that up later, he said at Bridgeport; but in seven
years i'm Washington he passed it by, referring
to il once, i'm a moment of candOr, one Of sev-
eral subjects which edo not interest me-" He is
anxious, he says, to see a tariff commission,
which experience has shown to be device for
delay. But in an unguardes1 mement 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 "red herring" tariff. They are i
Having the people discuss things in the school !
houses; governmental regulation of the issu-
ance of securities, of the business of insurance,
of everything; "the increase of the peoples par
ticipatiOn i'm 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 hissOwnI
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 single exception of the recall
of judges and decisions) 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 we'll. He has had seven years,
and he left the country worse than lie found it i
yet now everybody shall have his wish and no!
child shall ask for the moon in vain Observed
this promise: "to bring about 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; lett
the children trust in him as their All-Father. Al
torrent of words here, torrent of other w0rdsI
there; but not glimmer of specific account asI
to by what means this delightful era is to bel
brought in. All we can gather is that it is tot
begin as soon as this superman resumes his seat
as the ruler of everything 4 : |
Either this is the extreme of enthusiastically or!
Mr.. Roosevelt is himself a fOunt of blessings.
To those who keep their powers of Judgment I'M
impaired he seems far otherwise In his DESIRE
to be surrounded by cOurtiers, in his insatiableI
vanity, in his dislike of Judges and disrcSpcct
for written constitutions, in his indifference TOT
his own pledges in his caprice, in his disposition
to bestow gifts On his favOrtes and punish those
he deems his enelaies, Mr.. Roosevelt is the very
mark and pattern of the deSpot of all history.
Under rhetorical gencraliteS about the peopIeI
ruling themseltes and coming into their own, heI
asks to be set up as the virtually uncontrolled
ruler of all affairs large small. Is the coun
try will to Jump Into abSolutsm?
Mr.. RoOsevelts' personal chase for power, dis
gused under a pretended political movement
which would instantly collapse if he were rel
moved from it, would seem jest if it were not
a CHASTITY and menacing possibility.
Another aroumpnt for the passage of Il direct