Show THE PRESIDENTS PRESIDENT'S NASHVILLE SPEECH One can hardly conceive of a more timed ill-timed speech than that of the president at Nash Nashville lle The business of prosecuting rogues belongs to the judiciary judiciary judiciary judi judi- ciary not to the president and however aggravated may be the case the way to proceed is with dignity and order When a great city is filled with ith anxiety and unrest and confidence is failing men in apprehension apprehension hension of what may happen next nest for the executive of a nation to publicly declare that he is going to I I I pursue the thieves if the whole business of the nation nations is s wrecked is little less than idiocy His declaration that hat he ho will protect honest bonest men is simply gratuitous for or when the god of the Ule winds sets a cyclone in motion motion mo- mo tion ion he destroys the sound as well as the rotten fruit in it If President Roosevelt was a banker in NewYork New NewYork NewYork York today with a capital of a million and ample resources to pay all he owed ten times over if he had deposits of and only on hand and a run was made upon him he could not borrow that hat needed to meet the run to save his life The speech of the president was directly calculated calculate to o start such runs When a receiver has to be appointed for such a I company as s the Westinghouse it simply means that with all its millions it cannot borrow the needed mone money r to carry on a legitimate business The speech of the president w was was s directly calculated to still furher further further fur- fur ther her break down confidence and in that light is almost almost almost al al- al- al most criminal Fortunately the country west of the Alleghenies was vas never in so good condition never owed so little ittle never ha had assets so magnificent Indeed it has reached a point where a speech from Tom the president cannot much harm it Nevertheless less ess it is not good for an any one man to try to usurp all the functions of the government the government the executive legislative and judiciary |