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The Commoner.
VOLUME 3, NUMBER X
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Roosevelt vs. Pliko.
In tlio Herald wore published some
veekB ago the opinions expressed by
President Theodore lloosovelt, in nib
most strenuous language, o sorno 01
SSpredecoBBorB In the White house.
It is Interesting to compare them
with tho opinions expressed by ono
o tho greatest American historians,
tho lato John Flake. ,-
Hero, for instanco, is Mr. Rooao
volt's opinion of Thomas Jofforaon:
"Tho scholarly, timid and shifty doc
trinaire . . . was tho fathorof nullM
catlon and therefore of secession. . . .
Cheap psoudo-classicism that ho bor
rowed from tho Pronch revolutionists.
. . . Constitutionally unable to put a
proper value on truthfulness." Mr.
Fisko, Massachusetts Yankee as ho
was, calls Jefferson "tho conservative
roformor," and says "as a political
loader wo havo hardly seen his equal. '
Mr. Koosovolt says that Martin Vaa
Duron "faithfully sorvod the mam
mon of unrighteousness. . . . Succeod
wi iiftPinifin nf ntwl not In snltc of his
moral shortcomings." Mr. Flake says:
"Van Duron had a moro philosophical
and luminous view of tho proper
Bphoro alid functions of government,
in Its relations to tho pcoplo, than any
other American statesman since Jef
ferson. Tho mantle of Jefferson foil
upon Van Duron and It was to Jack
Bon'B credit that ho took that states
man into his innermost councils."
Mr. Koosovolt says of President Ty
ler: "Ho has been called a mediocre
man; but this Is unwarranted flattery.
Ho was a politician of monumental
littleness. . . . His chiof mental and
moral attributes woro peovlshnoss,
fretful obstinacy, Inconsistency, inca
pacity to mako up his own mind, to
gether with inordlnato vanity." Mr.
Flsko says: "While wo cannot call
Wm a great man ... ho Is not so triv
ial n personage as his dotractors would
havo us bollovo. Ho was honest and
courageous. ... If ho was small as
compared with Jackson and Van Duron
ho was groat as compared with Piorco
and Buchanan. Columbia (Mo.) Herald.
THE SONG OF THE SIREN.
"The sailing hjur has come and gone, but still the captain dallies."
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