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SEPTEMBER 22, 1905
LET US BE CALM
Theodore Roosevelt has for two or
three years enjoyed a popularity with
the American people of a kind which
we may fairly say is unique in our
history. The proportion of the cit
izenship that is convinced that he is
its best representative in public life
seems, to be larger, as shown by elec
tion returns and otherwise, than the
proportion that has felt a similar con
viction with reference to any former
leader. Herein lies the president's
great strength as a man, a politician
and a statesman.
But in the last few weeks we have
witnessed a phenomenon of a very
different nature. As tne result of the
peace conference there has risen an
hysterical admiration for the presi
dent which is a phenomenon not at all
unique. It has been paralleled re
peatedly before in recent years. And
unfortunately the parallel shows that
each time the hysterics have appeared
they have been followed sooner or
later by a reversal of feeling which
has turned the hero into a victim.
Admiration, by its very excess, is
transformed into ridicule, and hero
worship, ashamed of itself, becomes
scorn.
Admiral Dewey is the great exemp
lar. After our fit of national hyster
ics had lasted a year or two we had
a revulsion of feeling. The unfortu
nate admiral may have made some
errors of judgment, but they did not
affect the question of his service to
the country, and merely gave an op
portunity for us to show that we were
ashamed of our former spasms. We
degraded the admiral in proportion
to the heights to which we had prev
iously raised him.
In another field of life there is the
case of J. Pierpont Morgan. Three
or four years ago the world shuddered
at his name. There was nothing which
was not possible to him, according
to common belief. The spasm passed,
and the name of Morgan has lost its
startling pre-eminence.
Again, to come down to very petty
things, there is the case of Hobson.
His triumphial tours over the land
were followed by much ridicule, and
now even the ridicule has- beoome
tiresome and the man Is simply ig
nored. As long as our admiration of Roose
velt rested on the direct basis of our
confidence in him he was safe. But
now, when we begin to lose ourselves
in the raptures of adoration, which
are showing themselves everywhere,
we place Roosevelt himself in peril.
When adulation at length cloys and
brings us nausea, Roosevelt will suf
fer, though the fault is not his own.
For Roosevelt's sake his admirers
should calm themselves at once. In
his coming battles he needs all the
strength the support of the people can
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give him. It will bo a great loss if
his power for good suffers by the re
coil of an overwrought public opin
ion. Chicago Record-Herald (rep.).
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OFFICE BOYS EXAMINED
"Hully gee! Look er all de comin'
politicians!" said Slasher Dick, the
kid, as he swung around the corner
into Lexington avenue at Forty-third
street yestorday forenoon and saw 288
boys, from fourteen to eighteen years
old, fighting for a place in the line
in front of the Grand Central Palace.
"De lino forms on de right!" one
young fellow shouted, whose examina
tion papers in the Belmont school at
One Hundred and Eighty-third street
entitled him to speak better United
States. And the crowd surged over to
the right of the big barn-door entrance
of the Palace.
It was the civil service examination
for the position of office hoys under
the municipality of New York, and
the brightest boys from Coney Island
to Mount Vernon were struggling to
get into line.
The office boy is the first step in
the line of promotion under the civil
service rules. The examinations, pre
sided over by Chief Examiner P. G.
Ireland, of the Municipal Civil Ser
vice commission, began at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning. The street was
full of boys. Out of 340 who made
application 288 took the examination,
and the questions asked, incidentally,
might have puzzled many a gray
head.
When the doors of the Grand Cen
tral Palace opened there was a rush,
despite the line which formed, and the
upstairs room was carried by assault,
but when the examination room was
entered and the atmosphere of law
and order prevailed, every boy melted
into the most proper young gentle
man, and each sat quietly at a desk
to wrestle, with knitted brow, over
the questions that were to make or
mar him. There were eight general
questions in history, geography, etc.;
six in arithmetic, and the writing of
two letters.
All day the young fellows struggled,
some with ready skill and careless
ease and others with more delibera
tion. "When the examination was over
and the boys filed out there was a
comparing of notes outside, and one
big fellow read from the official list
of questions to the crowd:
Question. Different parts of the
present United States were originally
settled by the English, the Dutch, the
Spanish, the French. Name an im
portant city of each elass and state
accurately where it is.
"The English settled Brooklyn where
it is still spoken; the Dutch settled
Fifth avenue, where the Vans still
live; the Spanish settled St. Augus
tine, Fla., but were driven out by
alligators and the walls of the city
still stand; the French settled New
Rochelle, which is up beyond Harlem,
and use the overhead trolley to get
in to civilization," was the prompt
answer of one ambitious youth.
Question. A person wishes to go
by water from the state of Pennsyl
vania to the Gulf of Mexico. Starting
from Pittsburg, by what streams
would he make his journey and
through or by what states would he
pass?
"By the Great Lakes, the St. Law
rence, Long Island sound, the Narrows
and the Atlantic ocean. He wouldn't
miss New York on the way of course,
and the other states don't count."
Question. Suppose there is a dull
season in the office where you are
employed. What, in your opinion,
would be the best way for you to
occupy your time?
"Go to the ball game," was the
prompt answer in chorus.
"Taken as a lot," said Chief Ex
aminer Ireland, "the boys who were
examined today are as bright a lot
of lads as have been here for years.
The answers to tho questions will bo
carefully examined, and If tho boys
pass thoy will bo put on tho eligible
list Tho number who pass will bo
greater than ono might think." Now
York World.
DEPEW DISCREDITED
Senator Dopcw has made a tardy
refund of the sum lost to the Equitable
Lifo Assurance society through a
loan to tho Depow Improvement com
pany a concern which carried out a
land schemo near Buffalo, N. Y.
When the loss to the society first
became known to the public Mr. Depow
insisted that it was none of his af
fairs; that tho loan was made to
the Depew company before ho bo
came connected with the company,
and that tho alleged guarantee which
he had given to tho Equitable was
not binding upon him in law.
Tho merits of that dofenso need
little discussion now. Tho senator
has drawn his check for tho amount,
thus confessing that his earlier story
was untrue and was given out in the
hope of protecting him from the pay
ment of the monoy and from tho pub
lic condemnation which ho deserved.
Depow's connection with tho Eqult
ablo society, Including tho 926,000 a
year retnlning fco which ho received
from it, was wholly discreditable to
him. He was paid tho retainer and
given a high place In tho councils
of tho company because ho was a
handy tool for blggor men nnd to pay
him for his services to thorn.
No wonder there aro cynics whon
such a man has poncd for decades as
a teacher and leader of the young
peoplo of tho land. Denver Nown.
THE 8ENATOFV8 JUDGMENT
"Do you moan to toll me you of.
fored that played-out ward heolcr a
thousand dollars for his Influence?"
asked Senator Sorghum.
"Yes," said tho willing but Inex
porlcnced worker. "I was afraid you
would call It political corruption.
"My friend, that Isn't political cor
ruption. Thnt's frenzied finance."
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