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VOLUME 8, NUMBER
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Newspaper Comment on the Message
New York Sun: Wo may only re
mark lliiLf. In respect of tone, of nub
jitanco, and of Intention Uio mossago
delivered to conKroHB yesterday by
llio chief rnuKlHlnito or tho United
Stales Ih abHoluloly without preco
dont or parallol in our do(!iimontary
hlHlory. Comment on Its contents
Ih unnecessary; It Is tho method, tho
manner, (he aura that aro most dis
turbing. Can any person skilled In
tho psychologic Indlcallons road Mils
portenloiiH diatribe without perceiv
ing that Its legitimate place is rather
In tlio Inwards of a carefully framed
hypothetical question addressed to
exports than In any respectable col
lection of slate papers? It Is an oven
more disturbing reflection that tho
hand which penned this message is
tho same hand which directs tho
American navy, now on its mission
toward unknown possibilities. God
send our ships and all of us good
luck.
Now York Times: It Is our belief
that Mr. Roosevelt, has at last gone
whoro tho people will not follow. It
Is not that tho measures he advocates
aro boyond tho range of candid and
reasonable discussion. Thoy are, as
wo havo said, arguable, but ho docs
not arguo either with candor or with
reason. Tho passion, tho excitement,
and tho intemperance of speech with
,utnh iio nnnn.ils to congress and to
tho country aro so lamentably out of
keeping with the dignity of his great
office, and his delusion that those
who disagree with him and who op
iimmo lihn are criminals banded to
gether in a conspiracy is so palpable
that even among his sympathetic ad
mirers there must be engendered tho
gravest doubts of the prudence of
further submission to the leadership
of a man with such a temperament,
with a mind thus organized.
New York Journal of Commerce:
Tho sentiments and purposes ex
pressed and tho ends desired aro in
tho main commendable, but tho idea
that practical effect is to be given
to them by legislation and adminis
tration, by tho exercise of public
authority, is carried to an extreme
that is visionary, not to say absurd.
Agitation for higher standards and
bettor methods and legislation for
tho protection of definite rights and
tho punishment of specific wrongs are
necessary instruments of progress,
but tho regeneration and elevation of
mankind is not to be accomplished
by congressional action or the Culmin
ation of official messages.
Your Nerves
Are tho Ilfo, tho vitality, tho energy
M your body.
It Ih tho nerves that cause tho heart
to iHilflute, tho lungs to inhale tho oxy
gon, tho brain to direct the motion of
ovory organ of tho body, tho stomach
to digest food, tho liver to secrete tho
mlo, tho kidneys to illter tho blood, and
tho bowels to carry off tho waste.
When tho nerves of tho stomach bc
mo weakened or exhausted, Indiges
tion, Constipation and Inflammation ro
k' bocausu tho stomach is Inactive.
IhlH Is true of all tho organs of tho
body, and proves that to euro dlseaso
you must strengthen the nerves.
Dr. Miles' Nervine
is the great specific for the nerves, and
In bringing them back to health never
falls to cure all eases of Nervousness.
Sleeplessness Neuralgia, Headache
Spasms, Mackaehe, Muscular Twltch
Ings St. Vitus Dance, Epilepsy, Stom
ach. Uvor and Kidney Troubles.
lI,,l!r Wn y,Jl,'H Physicians and health
resorts failed to relievo mo of a compli
cation of stomach, Uvor, kidney and
heart, affections. Six bottles of Dr.
Miles' Nervlno cured mo."
G. W. AllCIlBOLD, C.rocer,
The urst bottle will bStfnot
ho druggist will return your money.
Now York Evening Post: Some
overanxious people have feared that
tho president would fall below that
high dignity with which he has hith
erto invested his office; thrt he would
bo garrulous, repetitious, impatient,
cocksure, querulous, hot-headed, and
impracticable. But we now see that
all these anticipatory complaints were
unfounded, if not actually malicious.
Lot doubters read the message itself,
and they can not fall to be delighted
with its calmness, its poise, its tol
erance, and its terse writing.
sions and the laying off of working
people, to expose and punish the am
bushed defiant rascals who have made
all the trouble and have corrupted
our financial and commercial system.
Boston Transcript: Wo believe
the country stands back of the great
Roosevelt policies, and that public
sentiment will ratify the further steps
which he proposes. He does not give
credit enough for what the laissez
faire system has accomplished in de
veloping the best talents of men.
Probably we can go as far as the
president now asks with entire safety
but tho general direction in which
his teachings lead is one that all hu
man experience warns us to take with
some deliberation.
New York Herald: Taking the
views expressed by the actual presi
dent and the possible candidate and
comparing them with the declarations
of the platforms adopted by both the
great political parties in 1896 one
gets some measure of the progress
made in public sentiment to which
the platforms always cater in the
direction of authorizing government
supervision over business affairs and
the regulation of great corporations.
New York World: Roosevelt is
intemperate, abusive, hasty. His
message is more like a stump speech
than a state paper. It is less an arg
ument than a shriek.
Richmond News-Leader: Wo be
lieve this message will make the
president stronger than he was be
fore. Tt will clear away all tho mist
and smoke that have been blown
over tho situation, bring the real
facts and issues vividly into the pub
lic mind, harden the determination to
go on in spite of panics and depres-
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New York Tribune: These views
may not find expression in legisla
tion this year or next year, or even
in the year after. They are the
legacy of Mr. Roosevelt's administra
tion to the administrations which are
to follow. But they contain seed
which is bound to come to fruitage,
and from that point of view they are
of general and permanent importance
and deserve tho searching and sober
consideration of the American people.
Baltimore American: The style of
the message is quite unusual when it
is considered as a state paper con-,
veying the views of the chief execu
tive to a co-ordinate branch of the
government. But if regarded as a bit
of offensive and defensive oratory
well, when considered in that light
perhaps it will go far to justify those
who have expressc.: the opinion that
Mr. Roosevelt is the ablest politician
of his generation.
New York Globe: It isn't worth
while to hammer away at a man of
strawthat he is assailed because
he has attacked intrenched dishon-
,?'., iio would never have been
called the man on the barrel if his
5emAe had merely been that of
standing for decency and cleanness
in business. It is the evidence of
the presence of a disorderly mind in
a place of great responsibility that
has bred the scare.
Philadelphia Record: Tho presi-
M,?iS IS0!?1 e,arnestness is inspiring.
Much of the legislation he asks for
wirS' faml ?. Could be obtained
mviinS fo,montinS Jn the minds of
Srian W .a,re not much given to
iitt!o tb. idea tllat wealth Is gen
erally obtained by oppression and
li?7, iUd wIthut giving the
n w?i0n th.at corPrations are to
Sf SfdJSSt dyenaged CHminalS
Philadelphia Press: These crpir
reforms President Rooseve t cange
because no man doubts his sincerity
He has done a great work. He haq
?h?.ed the raoral consciousness o?
StoJSX;, H, IS hated by men d
corporations who profited by them
praise!"6 hatred te the "Wrt
ident ignores the fact that hi?
fortunate condition 11, hIs, un"
brought about by what L-m been
than by what he d7d Said more
ELIHU BURRITT, PIONEER
The citizens of New Britain, Conn.
aro preparing to erect a Lut
monument to their distinguish
townsman, Elihu Burrltt. Contri.
buttons should be sent to Airs. Annie
unurcnm, New Britain, Cbnnectl.
cutt. Mr. Burritt was a plo.
neer in the peace movement and hij
services were important enough to de
serve commemoration. Tho folio.
ing comments upon his work are
worthy of reproduction:
Tho Great Peace Congresses
The idea of an international meet.
ing to promote the cause of peace
had taken shape in 1S43 in tho Lon
don peace congress. Mr. Burritt
naturally revived the idea as em
bodying the purpose of the League
of Universal Brotherhood. Very
largely under his leadership a series
of great meetings was held from
1848 to 1851 in Brussels, Paris,
Frankfort and London. It is im
possible in the space of this sketch
to describe the sessions of these
congresses or to show how
large a part Mr. Burritt had in
carrying them out. The judg
ment is correct that the suc
cess of the gatherings depended up
on his initiative and effective organ
izing ability. He traveled very
widely in Europe and America,
pleading for the cause represented in
the congresses and awakening inter
est in them. The great meetings
were due more largely to Mr. Burritt
than to any other person.
The men with whom Mr. Burritt
became related in this movement
were the leaders of the higher life
of the world. Richard Cobden, John
Bright, Victor Hugo, de Tocqueville
and many others were the associates
and friends of Mr. Burritt in this
great enterprise. Certainly uo na
tive of New Britain and few Ameri
cans of his day enjoyed so wide, so
noble and so sacred a range of per
sonal friendships and sphere of la
bor as did Mr. Burritt during these
years of most distinguished service
to the cause of humanity.
The Congress of Nations Idea
If we were to think of Mr. Bur
rit, however, as 'the organizer of suc
cessful international meetings wo
should do scant justice to the great
contribution made by him to the
cause of peace. He presented at the
congresses in Brussels, Paris and
Frankfort that which became known
as "the American plan" and was in
many respects the most significant of
all the deliberations of the con
gresses. This was the proposition for "a
congress of nations, for the purpose
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