Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-09
IN THE SWEET BY AND BY"
Men, Things, Issues and Questions That
VIII Survive In This and Later
Periods.
CFrom the BrooklYn Eagle

once Grover Cleveland in an infelctous
moment said at Lakewood: and after
all these things have been settled the
soil will remain under our feet" The
ways reminded the nation that the soil
at Lakewood never remains under our
feet but is subjected % the breczes Of
the Pine Bolt, and is hnpartlally dis
tributed through various counties With
a saving access of common sense at the
seth minute of tn nth hour. Mr.. Tlcve-
land went way back and sat down
In recalling that event, as to which
most of the men Contemporaneous with
it have passed into the beyond, it will
be we'll to bear in mind that there will
he new subjects on the floor and new
faces at the door before MANY of us are
very much older For instance, there will
be the new income tax Those who can
cvade it or avoid ii ar" now studying the
ways in and the ways out Those who
can neither eVade it nor avoid il are try
ing to bring it to what they call an ir-
reducihle minimum. So far as they are
concerned Those who have brought it
, on the nation ere already declaring lit
will do us good" thus inviting the place
| ment of the word do" within quotation
marks after the manner of +. r. Lent,
that attaChe of the Eagle, who has added
to the gayetY of authorship and the pride
of Suffolk county, especially to the com
J placency Of Sag liarbor. Riverhead and
Montauk Point.
Next year. and during most of it's
months, Mr.. Roosevelt, for a fact, will
be running away from his own eligibl-
ity. We think he will be successful. He
does not want to run for anything, even
the next Eovcrnorship, if he can transfer
that waiting honor to a point between
the shoulder blades of -somc other man.
Senator Root, We are told. is willing that
that burning boil should be located be-
low the neck and near the top of the
spine of Mr. Roosevelt himself. The
| senator does injustice to the eligibility
and the willingness of President Jacob
Gould Schurman, to whom the Eagle has
already more than kindly referred II
| the senator thinks ne can ignore DR.
Schurnau, rs does not correctly calcU-
| late the resilient and the rhetorical
readiness of that notable man. We know
| that as Hamilton College graduate
Senator Root may be unwilling to give
to Cornell University its due. But Ham
ilton. With its freshman class under ~.
will probably have 70 bow merely to
, the impact of the thousands who throng
| the halls Of Ithaca-and the end is not
Yet.
There are other subjects that will not
down at the bidding of any man. 1t Is
very probable that W 1odrow Wilson will
| clear several things out of the way,
| though it is just possible that the Re-
! publican party. ny the involuntary aid OF
| the hull moosers and the prohibitionsts,
may carry New Jersey and thus make
| 1t rock ahead" in the path of an
otherwise manifest destiny. Still the
downing of President Wilson in his own
| State is more than unlikely. and can be
| regarded among the improbabilities
| And If the President should get the tar
! if question out of the way and the mon
| etary question out of the way, and the
income tax question out of the way
| what other subjects could our friends,
the republicans. who are only and al
ways the anti-Wlson men, ignite to at
tcntion? Our foreign relations" of
course remain, but the Monroe Doc
trne" takes care of them and as that is
a foreign matter 1t is of the very shib-
boleth of American politics that such
! matters cease at the waters edge"
| Years ago, $50 many years ago" re-
more presidency in the loody shirt"
That can now be doubted. The United
States supreme court has decided that
a sovercig" safe must be a party To Il
| constitutional suffrage issue. and as the
Southern States are democratic, and as
the Northern States whether democratic
! or whether republican, or whether bull
| moose, are averse to the raising of negro
| suffrage to a national issue, the expecta-
| ton of effective activity in that direc-
| ton can hardly be encouraged. Indeed
our republican friends are now nearly
as embarrassed for questions as the
democrats themselves We're when Mr.,
| Bryan was a gentleman whom they
could neither carry nor dislodge And
Mr. Bryan himself, thanks to his effec-
| tive etherization by President Wilson, now
feeds out Of the latter's hand. and is one
of the most useful ard least harmful OF
forces within Mr. Wilson'S control
| We never expected that this would be,
but II Is fact that this Is, and more
| than this is a fact Among those who do
| not want negro suffrage are the negroes
, themselves All that they ask Is to be
so let alone as to adjust themselves to
agriculture trades, mechanical pursuits