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Roosevelt’s Attack on Presidents.
Tho Commoner.
The Columbia, Mo., Herald,
which enjoys thedistinction of be
ing one of the handsomest weekly
newspapers in America, and which
is also one of the ablest demoqrat-
io newspapers in the country, has
been reading the books written by
Theodore Roosevelt. Naturally
Roosevelt’s “Life of Thomas H.
Benton” interests' a Missourian.
BdifeorWilliameJof the Herald says
that while abroad the two must
talked-of Americans that came to
his notioe were Missourians —Ben
ton and the mule. Editor Wil
liams has been reading Roose
velt’s Life of Benton and makes
copious extracts therefrom.
It will be remembered that about
a year ago republican organs were
filled with violent criticisms of
men who dared to Bpealc slighting
ly of presidents, and criticisms of
presidents wore likened to anar
chy. Indeed, the assassination of
McKinley was attributed to the
newspapers and speakers who crit
icised Mr McKinley and his poli
cies, and these same republican
organs demanded a federal law
limiting free speech and free press.
These facts are recalled for the
purpose of of emphasizing some of
the extracts the Herald-made from
Roosevelt’s Life of Benton. * '
Speaking of Thomas Jefferson,
Author Roosevelt said: “The
scholarly, shiffcy doctrinaire....
Was the father of nullification and
therefore of secession..... Cheap
pseudo-classicism borrowed, from
the French Revolutionists.. .Oon-
stitutionnally unable to put a
proper value on truthfulness.”
Of Martin Van Buren he said:
“Faithfully served the mammon
of unrighteousness Succeeded
oecauso of and not in spite of his
moral short comings.”
Concerning IFranklin Pierce,Au
thor Roosevelt wrote: “A small
politician of low capacity and
mean surrounding, proud to act
is the servile tool of men worse
than himself.”
When Author Roosevelt wrote of
.fames K! Polk, he said: “Except
mg Tyler, the very smallest oi
t he small presidents between Jack
son and Lincoln.”
Of President Monroe Author
itoosevelfc wrote as follows: “Col
orless, high-bred gentleman of no
special ability, but well fitted to
ast as presidential figurehead.”
But Author Roosevelt’s opinion
of John Tyler is especially inter
esting. He Baid: “He has been
-. ailed a mediocre man, but this is
tnwarranted flattery. He ‘ was a
. -olitioian of monumental little
ness. . .His chief mental and mur
'd attributes were peevishness,
iVetful obstinaoy, inconsistency,
ncapaoity to make up his mind,
tgether with inordinate vanity.”
If we remember aright, similar
■"-ti mates of presidents made by
other gentlemen were denounced
- •( anarchy and“abuso of the free
dom of speech” by the writer of
t he above estimates of presidents.
And if memory is not playing us
false, we recall a number of re
marks to the effect that such “at
tacks” on a president were respon
sible fcr“auarchy” and those who
made them should be held res
ponsible along with the assassin
( -r any crime committed because
t' their “influence upon weak and
» sponsible minds.” Is it patr.i-
'• -am to defame a president after
- ith and anarchy to criticise
uun. while living?
A comparison of Author Roose-
v-it’s words with President Roose-
v It’s words will bring to light
many interesting things.
The Rural School.
About eighty-two per cent of
our people dwell in the country
and engage in agricultual per
sists, Under present conditions
the rural dublic school is the
chief hope of educating the rural
population. The best- people of
all olasses are going to reside
where they can get the best oppor
tunities for their childien. The
only hope, therefore, of keeping
such peoplfe on their farms is to
be found in the improvement of
the public school. These rural
sohools must be made adequate to
the educational needs of the peo
ple and equal in merit to the
best public schools of the towns
and cities before we can hope to
stop the disastrous annual drains
upon the best blood of the com
munity by the towns and cities.
Iu rocks and trees, and streams,
and hills, and vales, and fields,
and flowers, nature has provided
in the country better companions,
better object lessons and better
materials for education than can
possibly be found or supglied in
towns and tho cities.
There is no reason why man
should not supply there, "in the
the heart of nature, schools that
shall offer as »good educational
facilities as are to be found in
town or 6ity. With such schools,
the oopntrv would he the ideal
place for the education of men.
Without such schools, it is but a
question of time, when the best of
the country population will leave
the country and when there shall
be left in our rural districts only
the}poore8bJpeasant population,too
ignorant to know the value and
the blessing of education and too
indifferent to care to secure it for
their offspring.
This must happen. The his
tory of all civilization plainly de
clares that tho greatest oalamity
that can befall any land is the
deterioration or the destruction
of its bold pesautry.—Hon. J. Y.
Joyner, Superintendent of Pufflli
Listrvction of North Carolina.
Wise Conquerors.
Macon Telegraph.
In addition to £3,000,000
already provided for in the terms
of surrender of the'Boers, the
British house of commons has
now voted £8,000,000 in aid of
the rehabiliation of the Transvaal
and Orange River colonies, the
last grant having been proposed
by Colonial Secretary Chamber-
lain, who has been roundly abus
ed for having forced the war on
the Boers, when, as is charged, he
might have secured an amicable
and honorable settlement of the
dispute. Without entering
a well-wourn controversy, it
be safely asserted that the
act of the colonial secretary
sursprised his critics.
Viewed in the light of the his
tory of other wars, and the Amer
ican war of 1861-65 in particular,
the action of the British govern
ment in this matter „is astonish
ing. It is an nnheard of thing
for a victorious government to
appropriate $-15,000,000 to re
stock the ruined farms, restore
the wasted places and otherwise
heal the scars of war in a con
quered territory. It is generous,
but it is not mere generosity. It
is enlightened-self-interest. The
loss of the American colonies
taught Great Britain a lesson that
has been well learned. The cen
tral government is working to se
cure the loyalty and love of South
Africa, even as it secured the loy
alty and love of Canada, Australia
and New Zeland.
British statesmen seem to be
able to rise not only above petty
prejudices and spites, but above
the passions of war, and to be
able to perceive and work togeth
er for the needs of the empire at
large. If they have felt the im
pulse of average couquerers to
punish the conquered for stub
born and prolonged resistance,
they have been able to rise supe
rior to suoh an impulse and per-
sue the wiseer course.
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A Roosevelt Victory.
The Republicans will again be
in control of all the machinery
,,Q n congress meets, and their at-
i- jmod will be eagerly directed
ward the treasury surplus.
I'ii 're are a whole lot of tremen-
dsiis sphemes in progress- of incu
bation, and their hatching out
will call for the expenditure of
many, may millions of the na
tion^ treasure.—Albany Herald.
— —
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Asoording to certain European
observers the result of the No
vember elections was not a repub
lican but a Roosevelt viotory.
From all accounts, this certainly
seems to be true of the North
west, Republican successes in
that quarter being widely attrib
uted to the personal popularity of
the president.
More than one Republican par
ty manager confessed in advance,
according to the New York Even
ing Post, that-? if a republican
congre&s “pulled through,” it
would be due to the remarkable
popularity of the president more
than any other cause. “The re
turns,” says the Post, “prove
this to have been the case. In
the East, the Republicans lost
congressmen ; in the West, wheye
lines were most threatened on
the issues of tariff revision and
the trusts, they more than held
their own. It was the prestige
which Mr. Roosevelt has won out
there which saved them. The
great Northwest has truly been
reported by observant travelers
and bv watchful politicians to be
pretty well daft on one subjeot,
and that is the subject of ‘Our
Teddy.’ Oyster Bay may prove re
creant, as it did, but Wisconsin
and Michigan and Illinois and
Minnesota and the Dacotas stand
by him with ardent loyalty, It
is not simply that the West is
Roosevelt’s country; that he has
hunted over it till he has become
its own favorite son.”
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