Show ROOSEVELT AND Washington Post According to a special Paris letter to the Post published In our edition of Monday the he Rothschild broth brothers ers era Alphonse and Gustave respective respectively ly the heads of the great banking houses of London and nd Paris are so un unfortunate fortunate or misguided as to disa disagree disagree disagree gree with the Hon Theodore Roose Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt velt in a matter of or finance and states statesmanship statesmanship statesmanship manship It Is to be said of or course that the are entitled to a certain recognition They have after genera generations generations generations of patient patI nt plodding attained a avery avery avery very high position and accumulated in incalculable incalculable incalculable calculable wealth They enjoy the con confidence confidence confidence of every crowned head in Eu Europe Europe Europe rope they can make or prevent wars at their discretion they can cripple na nations nations and impoverish dynasties they can equip navies and mobilize armies they can change the map of Europe they can smother Imperial ambitions or vitalize them as they will As we have shown however they have reached this eminence through decades of hum humble humble humble ble burrowing and crawling They did didn not n t as the result of ge genius genius genius rise at a single si gle bound to the dizzy pinnacle of greatness Roosevelt on the other hand band is to the contrary and quite the reverse Without any military experience whatever unless we ve count a few months with the cowboys in South Dakota or a chance visit to some militia picnic at Peekskill N Y he plunged into the war showed the regular officers how to attend to their business instructed General Shafter very fully as to every cery move in the campaign charged San SanJuan SanJuan Juan Tuan hill and captured it and even went so far as as to give the secretary of war several very valuable hints at a time when the latter was all at sea and did not know which way to I turn for safety Now with as little preparation or experience but with the same inspired insight he is telling the multitudes of the far west that expansion is the one fine ne nope hope of an honorable and glorious development by bythe bythe bythe the United States and that silver coin coinage coinage coinage age will reduce the nations wealth by b if not more and brand us with eternal shame besides In the Posts Paris special above re referred referred to it Is stated that Mr AaE AE E Randle Handle a well known resident of Washington met the at a French watering place Trouville last month and on several occasions dis die discussed discussed cussed the questions of expansion and silver coinage with them It appears from our correspondence that neither of or them takes the violent not to say gloomy and antl hysterical view which Mr Roosevelt is disseminating in respect of silver sUver They are both of the opinion that every country should legislate for itself and not be influenced by any power They agree in asserting that the United States State cannot compel Eu Europe Europe Europe rope to accept silver in exchange for gold but as no one has ever eyer proposed such a scheme the declaration is not of importance On the subject of ex ox expansion expansion however Baron Alphonse speaks quite emphatically and to the point Joint I One of or the greatest dangers before the United States is expansion While your country has vast undeveloped rich territories for you to seek addition additional al responsibilities In foreign lands is unquestionably an error and would in inthe Inthe inthe the end lead to international complications complications complications in which Americas credit would greatly suffer Far be it from us to suggest that the know as much about these matters as Roosevelt We do not venture to pit the mere how however however hOwever ever powerful against the roaring prophet Our duty ends in calling attention to this disagreement so unexpected in Itself and so unfortunate for the Roth |