The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-24


president through patriotism. but be-
cause an enemy of the president at
tacks me. l will cease to patriotcaily
support the president" On the same
day Colonel Roosevelt comes down to
Washington. The General Fremont OF
the war hasn't been getting much at
tention recently. He is sore about the
inattention. He proceeds to let every
one know that he is not indignant be-
cause of Stones attack. Why should
he be- 1t called attention TO him. 1t
gave him and gave every partisan
enemy of the administration an ex-
cuse, lame and contemplate as that
excuse was. to spew out their vile
calumnies and do what they could to
cripple the conduct of the war, while
pretending to help It,
Now, does any sane man fail to see
through this very palpable game?
True. there is difference in motives.
Roosevelt cares primarily about him
self lust as Stone said. The monu
mental egotism of the man makes him
Jealous of the success of everyone. He
is unfair TO Wilson as he was unfair
to Taft as president; as he was I'M
fair TO Hughes as governor; as he
was to Hughes when friends of the
latter urged the judges candidacy for
the presidency; as he would have been
unfair to Hughes as president had
the latter been elected. Kermit Roose-
welt, according to the current issue of
the Ladies Home Journal recently
Ell
ed up this megalomaniac when he
said. Father always wants to be the
center of attraction everywhere. When
he is at a wedding he wants to be
bride and when he is at funeral he
wants to be the corpse" This trait
of character makes and always has
made him the instrument of crafty
tools of the interests. so that his long
administration, distinguished alike for
Inconsistency and noise. and impotent
denunciation, left Pinchot's conserva-
ton policy as the sole act of legisla-
ton that even tended to effectually
stand in the way of the triumph OF
the trusts And that policy was pure
/ ~ negative What a singular con-
trast with the great program of con-
structive legislation carried out and
forced through by President Wilson
during a single terml
But while fatal egotism, such as
also proved the undoing of General
Fremont, is the cause for the parti-
cipation of Roosevelt in the dirty poll
tics now being played at the capital
others are in the game from less
worthy motives. At least so the world
would account them, for those whC
seek "honors" by questionable means
are usually considered less reprehen-
sible than those who seek wealth by
similar methods.
For some time attention has been
called in these columns to the activi
ties of the American Protective Tar
if league and the United States
Chamber of Commerce and other or
CARNATIONS of men who have Ions
lived in luxury through Legislation
that was openly enacted to give pref
erence to their private business.
Senators like "Our George" Cham
berlain, who halls from the domain
OF the lumber trust have long beef
FESTIVE In fact George was restiv
when it was proposed to take some o
the "rakeoff' from the trust som
years ago, and only consented whe
ne saw the futility OF fighting fur
Their Chamberlain stood hand i
glove with Jonathan Bourne, and wa
even suspected of double-crossing hi
. own ticket when that oleaginous trus
= magnate broke a written pledge
r Ben Selling, and. repudiated by til
70 Republican and Progressive partie
+ he sought election to the senate bacl
d ed only by the lumber interests. Not
: the distinction; Jonathan is not TOT
It of monopolists. he is a monopolii
II himself. And Jonathan has long bee
running an anti-Wilson special bu
l. eau. There are other insurgents"
If the Democratic camp, whose cond
IS ton in their own states is similar
It that of Chamberlain in Oregon
Is The real animus of this fight is n
n craftsmanship 1t involves some
he those billions that the president
D. the Non Partisan league talked abol
e. The TIMES does not believe that t.
monopOlists want the country to 10
the war Neither does it believe tn
they want the war to keep on indie