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Show THE HOUSE RESENTMENT. The temper in which the House of Representatives receives the report of its committee on the Presidential abuse of the "Representatives of the people, shows that thnt body is fully alive to the necessity of protecting its dignity and showing to the peopje of the country coun-try that it has not earned the vituperation vitu-peration heaped upon it in direct accusation ac-cusation and suggestion by President Roosevelt. It is a perfectly plain ease that the President is wrong all through in this matter. Ho has no more business busi-ness to have a secret force of detectives to spy upon Congressmen than Congress Con-gress has to provide- itself with a supply sup-ply of detectives to spy upon the President, Presi-dent, the Cabinet, or on the members of the Supreme Court. The idea that one department of tho Government ought to set spies to watch another department de-partment with tho purpose doubtless of reducing tbo membership of thnt body to subjection, is something so repulsive re-pulsive to the idea of popular government govern-ment that it cannot bo entertained for a moment. The members who were assailed per-sonally per-sonally by tho President naturally exculpated ex-culpated themselves and handed back some hot cakes to the President. It is all, however, a matter grievous griev-ous to the American public. The people peo-ple do nqt relish these passages at arms between 'different branches of tho Government, Gov-ernment, and more, especially as those branches are nominally, at least, in political po-litical harmony, and the samo National party responsible for the election, and, - ."' 1 .14 1 '. nUBniiMi..iLj.uti, ... 1 in a way, for tho conduct of each. The National Republican partj', of course, is brought into public condemnation when its officers full upon each other like ruffians and denounco each other as unfaithful public servants, thieves, liars, and criminals generally. It is a disgusting spectacle all through, and the people of the United States will bo delighted and will draw a sigh of infinite relief when the cud of all this disreputable maneuvering comes. It is a marvel that President Roosevelt Roose-velt maintained his prestige so long, in view of the utter breaking down of that prestige at the last. He appears to have gone all to pieces in bis frenzy, arrogance, and self-sufficiency. We are astonished to see him cast away in this manner tho respect which the vast majority ma-jority of the people of the United States havp been holding him in for so many years. It would seem as if nothing but a crazy man would go to tho extremes that President Roosevelt has been going for tho past year or so, in which his fame is wrecked and his personal repute is brought, so low. The President is not only doing himself injustice in-justice in all this, he is doing an injustice in-justice to the American people and is trailing his high office in the mire. |
