The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-06-08
SOME EGOIST.

Under the clever caption of A Fourth Dimension of Impotence tine Juneau Emipre disparages to a de- gree the "egotistical and monu- mental self-conceit of Roosevelt.
 The Empire is a loyal democratic paper whose ideals are about real ized on everything under the sun from mathematics to political eco- nomy by the Wilson administration, and for that reason if for no other Roosevelt can obtain as much credit for anything as can that other ter rible kid, Wickersham.
 Roosevelt has monumental self conceit without question, and it is just that which manes him so for midable candidate for further po- litical honors and why he is always and will be always a possibility as there is not a particle of hesi- tance about the egoism of Roose- welt he always knows where he is.
 He may have hoped and skipped and leaped-he has done all of that but while in the process of hopping and skipping and leaping he man. aged to convince himself and every one of his supporters that he was performing the greatest and most ,f, n1 hV, any person.
 And the very ego:sm that strikes his opponents 50 tragico-ludicrous is the more dangerous just because he believes in it himself and com pals through that means others t1 do the same.
 It is imm:,tcrial what dGmn fools make up a world it i8 imnGtorial what damn fools lead a world. l. is tnc damn fool, tho supreme ego ist who believed in himself and whose inflated self conceit knew no bounds who accomplished things by p0rsuading others Of his ability so to do.
 The commonest experience of all human intercourse is that of under rating the value or an opponent. But the commonest of all reasons why that opponent was under valued IS because it was not rellizeu that he believed in himself ana managed thus to make the other fellow do the same thing.
 Roosevelt has becn 2s consistent as Wilson and that's saying whole lot. But with lots of noise and lots of vigorous denunciation end lots or self advertising Roosevelt has arisen above all petty inconsistencies. He has said one thing today and be- lieved it and uttered the opposite tomorrow and believed it, and that's where he differed from Wilson. Will son has one belief today and an- other tomorrow, but gives the i'm pression that he has only half heart ed confidence in either his former or his newer beliefs; as scholar he is always open to conviction.
 There is no comparison between the two men to be sure. But it is unfortunate for Wilson that Roose- welt has been able to decry his po- licies with the charge of lofty l words and mean acts, and a great always
 Let concrete cage be cited from Wilson's own words.
 Don't deceive yourselves for a moment as to the power of the great interests which now dominate ! our development. They are So great that it is almost an open ques- tion whether the government of the United States can dominate them or not.
 Wilson admits the force of tho great economic power held by the interests. But he is doubt, and a most ignominious doubt, whether the government can dominate them or not. Either of two things are involved in this problem-there Is no other way out of 1.-the gov ernment of the United States doml- mates them or they dominate the United States government. Surely a man who knows himself politically would never have admitted that this was questionable or doubt full matter. Certainly would Roose-