Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-08
CLASS ANTAGONISTS

1.-THE Kansas CITY star queues az
length the sayings of Theodore
Roosevelt on class antagonisms
and the evils arising therefrom
Roosevelt had the gift of putting
into forceful sentences the Thoughts
of the multitude. He said what mil
lions of his fellow countrymen only
thought, and he said it in way that
brooks no denial. Among the para
graphs the Star republishes are
these, which no newspaper need feel
ashamed to set forth in this period
| of stress as outlining it's own edi-
torial thought:
Neither Plutocracy Nor Mob
This government is not and never
/ shall be a government by plutoc-
racy. This government is not and
never shall be government by mob.
| 1t shall continue to be in the future
what it has been in the past, a gov
ernment based on the theory that
each man, rich or poor, is to be Gre
ated simply and solely on his worth
as a man; that all his personal and
property rights are to be safeguard
ed; and that he is neither to wrong
others nor to suffer wrong from
others-From President Roosevelts
Message to Congress, December g.,
1905.
The Two Evils
The triumph of the mob is just
as evil a thing as the triumph of the
plutocracy, and to have escaped one
danger avails nothing if we succumb
to the other. There is
nothing to choose between.
Fundamentally they are alike in
their selfish disregard of the rights
of others.-From President Roose-
velts Message to Congress, Decem-
ber, 3, 1906.
The Glass AgitatOr
Any man who tries to excite class
hatred, sectional hate, hate of
creeds, any kind of hatred in our
| community, though he may affect to
do it in the interest of the class he
is addressing, is, in the long run,
with absolute certainty, that class's
own worst enemy-President Roose-
Welt in Omaha, April 81, 1908.
One Law For All
Mr. Shea, 1 can only, repeat what
1 have said. 1 am a believer in
unions. l am an honorary member
of one union. But the union must
obey the law; just as every man,
rich or poor, must obey the law
President Roosevelt to strike COM
mittee, May 10, 1905.
Predatory Wealth
One great problem that we have
before us is to preserve the rights
of property; these can only be pre-
served if we remember that they are
in less jeopardy from the Socialist
and the Anarchist than from the
predatory man of wealth.-Quoted
in Lewis Life of Theodore Roose-
Welt"
No Glass Gains from the Misfortune
of Another
There is no worse enemy of the
wageworker than the man who con-
dones mob violence in any shape
or who breaches class hatred; and
surely the slightest acquaintance
with our Industrial history should
teach even the most shortsighted
that the times of most suffering for
our people as a whole, the times
when business is stagnant and capi-
tai suffers from shrinkage and gets
no return from it's investments, are
exactly the times of hardship and
want and grim disaster among the
poor. If all the existing instrument
talities of wealth could be abolished,
| the first and severest suffering
would come among those of us who
are least we'll off at present. The
wageworker is we'll off only when
| the rest of the country is we'll off
and he can best contribute to the
general well being by showing sanity
and a firm purpose to do justice to
others.-President Roosevelt al
| Syracuse, September Z, 1893.
All of these things Roosevelt said
or wrote more than ten years age
| to-day. They might have been ut
tered in the present crisis. Would
that we had a Roosevelt at the helm
now, but having none we at least
may avail ourselves of his counsel
and advice, and we would do well to
give heed to what he-the great
friend of the common people-had
to say on problems such as those
with which the Nation is now con
fronted.
CIVIC BETTERMENT