The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-01-02
Clouds

Colonel George Harvey, who has taken the
President to school, holds forth in the current
North American Review with a preachment on
The Presidents Vision Taking as his text that
sentence in the recent Presidential message
There is but cloud upon our horizon the
dominic proceeds to point out to his pupil that
there are at least five clouds to be SEEM any one
of which looms almost as large and as black as
the Mexican thunderhead.
The first is described, with characteristic
Harveyan poisitivity, that the Constitution is
being subverted. And you have been the sub
verter he cries in substance, at the chief eXecu-
tive. you advocated presidential primaries
purely for demagogic purposes and you knew at
the time there place for it in our organic
law 1t was merely play to the galleries. With
that the irate colonel proceeds to castigate the
President He declares with Tolstoyan infalli-
bility that the bare suggestion that the nomna-
ton of the lands chief executive should be re-
moved from party control and placed In the hands
of the people was a blow aimed at the very heart
of the Constitution.
Another cloud now threatening to belch thun-
der and lightning is the immediate danger OF TOR
eign entanglements into which the President
policy enuncated at Mobile threatens to
plunge US. His Mexican doctrine of "watchful
waiting" is branded foolish net in which our
feet sure to be taken.
But worse still is the Administration policy
in regard to Latin America. Harvey interprets
that as being the directing of the Monroe Doc
trine at foreign capital as we'll at foreign arm
les But how can Central or South America ever
become developed without the help of capital and
where will they get it if not from abroad? Our
own investors have stayed away. Will Mr.. Will
son advocate that we lend them money from our
own treasury? Truly, the Mobile doctrine is a
dog n-the-manger policy. We can't help Latin
America: we won't let others help Latin-Ameri-
ca: and Latin America can't help itself
lhe colonel turns next to business conditions
and his sweeping vision makes a Jeremiah out OF
him. Wo! unto us, is his cry; we face panic
True there is plenty of currency, but that avalls
not because there is lack of confidence. ''Busi-
ness in all lines is he says, lat standstill.
Secretary McAGoo's offer of assistance from the
Treasury avas not; merchants won't borrow
money however available cheap, unless trade
is in sight But Colonel Harvey doesn't blame
anybody; he seems to think the Currency bill 8
good one and believes the present depression
merely to be a temporary result of changing ma
chinery.
But not so tolerant is he of the fourth cIouo
which he decries looming black ahead this is the
advent of class Legislation into the Democratic
policies Monopolies of labor and agricuturlsts
are made exempt from the sherman tAlltl- US
Act "Class legislation of the most vicious sort
is the way Taft and Roosevelt branded this sort
of thing and Colonel Harvey can't discover, in al
his sizzling vocabulary, apter description of 1t
And Wilson not only approved this, he declares
he even nstigated it, crime for which there i
10 forgiveness.
Last of ALL the Colonel breads the defeat OF
the Administration. Suppose, he says, that thu
people don't take kindly to Wilson'S anti-trus
program; will they not repudiate his Leadership
IN Congressional elections next fall? He now ha
Z big ma jorty in the House but Cleveland lost a
BILE circumstances. If the President falls down
bit and if the Republicans and Progressive
unite watch out, The New Freedom will be OF
the reefs.
With becoming modesty Colonel Harvey con
cludes by saying he is no calamity bowler and ha
been moved to point out wherein the Presiden
has erred grievousy,' ito obviate if possible
unfortunate repetitions' After assuring us i
this straightforward fashion that the nation
safe in his hands he salves any possibl
wounds on the Presidential skin by saying 'W
doubt if among all of Mr.. Wilson's predecessor
can be named President who gave himself S
completely, so unsparingly, to his work" Wit
that the good dominic wishes everybody happ
New Year and promises the next lessin in Fet
ruary.
Mrs. -So-and-So, D. H. Z.
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