The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-11-23

ton in which you move is down. So there is one
thing on which we may count-the strain of holding
will be the seEeTest sort of test of the tensile strength
of Roosevelt greatness during the next four years
nd those years under the tradition of govern
nent will be his last in the Presidency He will go
cat either blaze of glory that will illumine the
KY of future centuries or he will go dim some time
tween now and 1890 be recorded for few decades
another who almost made It, and then be known
10 more
In this connection it should be remembered that
America has sort of sadistic streak. She not only
kes to build up idols but also gets JOY OF seeing
hem topple if they fail to sustain themselves AS
OBJ Fitzsimmons put it. The bigger they are the
arder they fall" Or, Mr.. Dooey said about
Dewey When We build yer trumphal arch to yer
conquern hero. Hmnessey build it out of bricks so
The people will have something convanient to throw
at him as he passes through
AS for size Roosevelt's problems from here on
are as big and as trying time ever produced They
encompass not only the most important nation on the
Globe in transition period of vast moment but also
a whole world in ferment world with which our con-
facts by reason of tremendous speeding up OF COM
nunications are becoming intimate at an amaz-
ing rate.
whether he lives up to the magnitude of his
chance as he has in his first four years will be de-
ermined we believe very large degree by whether
lie has within him that capacity to rise above
those perfectly human impulses which prevent most
great men from attaining the fun measure OF their
opportunity.
He enters his second term in no such happy and
Harmonious environment as characterized his first
When he first took office the country was with him
unanimously His could then be only the state Of
mind Of unstnted appreciation for the support he was
receiving from all the people. And for more than two
years after that-4until the midsummer of 1885
though certain amount of purely party opposition
appeared there WAS attack upon him personally.
Then the pent-up humiliation of the supermen he
lad saved began to give voice. first tmdly then with
Using infection tl his recent victory has been ac-
complished only under the lash of one of the most
yirlilent assaults directed at in high posi-
ton His patriotism and even his sanity have been
challenged with crcscendo of hate such has
before been heard in time. And now he stands
the victor with whip in hand if he wants to use it.
Will he? Or viii he throw it down?
Few have ever tailed to respond to such bid for
vengeance against the ngratitude that is sharper
than the serperts tooth And those who have are
the ones who of the ages-Lincoln, who would
treat them as if they had never been away, and
He who said Love your enemies bless them that curse
YOU do good to them that hate you, and pray for
them that despitefully use you
There was a strong punitive note in his Madison
Square Garden speechthe part about welcoming the
hatreds and about being the master from now
AS human beings can understand But as citizens
we were glad to hear the calmer and the tempered
tone of his final fireside talk from the quieter
OF his Hyde Park home, with his words
about bitterness where the sole thought is the well
fare of the United States of America"
For that is the point. There is SO much to be
done; so many things of SO infinitely greater i'm
portance than the spanking of lot of pot-bellied
Bourbons who lost their balance In terms of states
manship and statesmans tasks life is too short for
that.
The hatreds will soon be gone with the wind of
blustery campaign now dead. But the job will remain
He will need all the help he get He should not
the resistance but rather do all in his power
to diminish it. He has been Endorsed by his people.
Backed by that Endorsement he will not find it diff
cult to convince even many of those who the
btteres il their hate that his detectives in this de-
of n the interest of the welfare of
the United States of America
He should not weaken But he should gather
together behind him all of the strength and all the
unity that the Worthiness of those detectives
muster
The speed and sureness with which move
from here will be in direct ratio to the magnanimity
and the objectivity which this much-maligned Presi-
dent of ours is able to show.
The depression has often been likened in it's
seriousness to a war. Let there be dark days in
this reconstruction
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