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amendments, yet that your amend
ment was entirely satisfactory. Your
amendment does not in the slightest
degree weaken or injure the Hep
burn. bill. It merely expresses what
the friends of the bill have always as
sjrted was implied by the terms of
the bill. I may add that my own
opinion was that your amendment in
np way changed, whether by diminish
ing or enlarging, the scope of the
court review as provided in the orig
inal Hepburn bill. It is also the opin
ion : of the attorney general, of Mr.
Ioot and of Mf. Taft. Their judg
ment is tha'c the amendment merely
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avoids the criticism that the Hepburn f
bill would be constitutionally invalid
in not expressly providing the court
review, wmch its supporters have al
ways contended was plainly Implied
in the original language. The origi
nal Hepburn bill stated that the venue
for certain actions was In certain
courts; the amendment states that
these courts shall have jurisdiction
to consider such actions. To my mind
it seems difficult to assert that this
works any change whatever in tho
principle of the bill..
"Yours sincerely,
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
"The Hero With a Past"
An. old and mischievous idea has
been rehabilitated in a few modern
novels, one. of them a book so good
that it is a surprise to find an old
foe- lurking therein. In "Lady Balti
more," by Owen-Wister, we And the
old ideal of manhood restated by one
of. tiiose delightful southern ladies
whom it fs a privilege to know.
"Virtue is our business; it Is
enough for a man to be brave," or
words to that effect. And it is re
peatedly asserted by the narrator arid
by the hero himself that John Mayrant
was not "innocent." He makes a
boast of his "past," whatever' ugly
shape ,it may. have worn; For sin is
ugly. It is sordid and unclean; a sign
of a weak nature instead of a strong
one.' We recall a strain of this false
logic in an earlier work of Mr. Wis
ter's: "In order to be a manly man, one
must have had every lurid experience
of life. I wish to depict a manly
man ;' therefore, he must have lived at
some time the picturesque , life of a
breaker of the moral law;"
"it" is time for a p'rbtest 'against this
weak and wicked fallacy, one might
as well make a plea for murder as
essential to a strong character! On
the stage, in poem and novel and in
the speech of too many otherwise in
telligent people, a He like this is re
iterated. Mr.- Wister's 'heroes get
drunk, and are addicted to knocking
people down to prove their right to
the part of leading man surely this
is enough without hinting at other
vices so near the level of the lowest
brute. who infests the'dens of iniquity
that a decent imagination sickens at
thought .of them. Mr. Water's other
Wise, admirable "Virginian" when he
is with the other cowboys "trolls
some careless , tavern catch, of Moll
and Meg and strange experiences un
meet for ladies," There, is a finer
''Americanism" -in the reply of a
great1, soldier and statesman when
some companion began, a story with
..the. preface: ".As there are no
laaies present," i trust tnere are gen
tlemen present," and the story "was
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untold. That is the sort of true Ameri
can hero, with physical and moral
courage, self restraint and purity of
lips and life. The Puritan has never
lacked, bravery when he has faced
the cavalier in battle. There Is no
need to exploit the man with an evil
past, in order to show examples of
the highest kind of courage, virtue
virtus used to mean just that. Most
people have an entirely gratuitous
hprror of perfection. There Is no
danger of the best human nature we
know attaining it. The severest test
of the novelist is to make a good man
or woman attractive only the high
est art can achieve the feat but shall
we, therefore, praise the inferior art
because, it falls short?
The hero will not be perfect, if he
Is drawn truly, though he may never
have lain down in the sty, nor have
fouled the whiteness of his soul with
impure experiences. Our young men
need to attune their ears to the bugle
notes of "Sit Galahad" rather than
listen to this discordant and decad
ent music the hideous cry of lost
souls, accepted as an invitation to
become like them, and not as a wail
of. warning to keep free from the
morass, in which they die an unclean
death. "The Hero with a Past" ought
to be as repulsive to a clean reader
as any "Becky Sharp or Paula Tan
queray among heroines. "Vfrtue" is
not the "business of women" solely,
and if ft has ever seemed to be so,
it Is time for a little reforming of lit
erature and of life. The Independent.
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THE HARDEST BLOW
The Lincoln (Nebraska) News, a
republican paper, says:
"If the president consents to any
such amendment as Is proposed he
might as well abandon the whole fight.
To concede what is given by that
compromise (the Allison amendment)
is -to concede what the railroads have
been fighting for, and it will mean a
virtual defeat for thr iflmnatr'tttnn
forces and for right and Justice. The
president has shown himself to ho a
great fighter along other lines of act
ivity, and it will be no credit to his
fame if he gives in to these corpor
ation armies. In fact, it will be the
hardest blow his prestige has yet sus
tained, and would disgust and dis
hearten the thousands who have been
backing him up in the contest. The
Allison amendment is fatal to the
hopes of those who believe that con
gress could curb railroad greed and
shackle railroad cunning. If congress
confers upon federal courts the right
to entertain and hear appeals from
the fixing by the commission of what
Is a reasonable rate, the whole cam
paign nas been a failure. The rate
bill will be absolutely ineffective if
by any hook or crook the railroads
get the legal right to suspend the
rates fixed by'the commission. That
means they will keep the case In
court" until- shippers are bankrupted
or tired out, and' meanwhile will go
on charging ' every shipper the old
oppressive rate."
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