Show PRESIDENT PR THEODORE ROOSEVELT he the Outlook is warm in its praise of President Roosevelt and all that he lie has done It admits that he has has' not always avs been tactful but that his motives have j been good and his courage undoubted The Thet t I president has not been assailed on the score of or courage cour- cour I agge age or want want of courage but on the score of wisdom i He He- has bas done many things that might have ha 1 been been appropriately done clone b by a member of congress congress con eon gress press responsible only to hi his own constituents but which coming from the chief magistrate of the nation ua- ua tion have caused prudent men to recoil in dismay He lacks that essential attribute called level headed cd- cd ness he has unconsciously has we hope hope hope-at at times tulles seemed to be trying to be at the same time congress congress con- con gress press and the supreme court as well as president He h has s decided great legal questions on an im in- impulse impulse pulse and been impatient that his opinion has not been instantly accepted He has declared th that thai f he will Vill punish the bad ri rich h men and protect the goodrich good goodrich rich men but the conclusion from his speeches is that most rich men are bad and the way waO he has carried out hi his s threats has left an indelible impression impression impression sion on the minds of thoughtful men that he has all the time been playing to the galleries While personally personally per per- honest he lie has accepted personal benefits that involved dishonorable obligations on his part When he has conceived that it would be to his interest interest interest in- in terest he has hns betrayed and denounced those who had sought in good faith t to help belp him He has treated a simple misdemeanor as a heinous hein- hein ous ous offense and when when a simple order would have been sufficient to cure the wrong he has ma magnified it it into something which in its results has inflicted inestimable losses upon not only the men directly Involved but upon the country at large In time timet t of panic and extreme e apprehension to gain gout the applause apI applause applause ap ap- ap- ap I of an irresponsible mob he has increased the panic panic and intensified the apprehension He Tie has denounced men men menas as as liars jars when they ther in n good faith have been seeking to carr carry out his inn instructions instructions in in- and his policy Three weeks week ago he lie was as denouncing in a public t t. speech sp ech all tho those who have misused their trusts I during flee filC past week he has been in close consultation consulta consulta- tion ti ri with the them m maii man ii who perhaps more than any other I lone one man has benefited at the expense of the government government government gov gov- and pc people His instincts instinct we believe are all right and he has many lovable traits but his impulses are as changeable as a monkeys monkey's i and those who will not follow and indorse his impulses he holds as personal personal per per- enemies There is nothing nothing- that he want to direct I l from the coinage of a dollar to the number o of children chill children children chil chil- dren in every family regardless of the fortune or health of the parents So far as prosecuting the unjustly unjustly un uno un- un justly rich it t could have been more effectively ely done b by some quiet instructions to the attorney general th than n it has been through the brass band baud and town crier process Imagine George Georg Washington's or Abraham r Lincoln's methods in contrast with his An impulse leads him to make a touching address to a humane E society one day and an another ther impulse causes him to shoot a she bear the next neat leaving her cubs mother mother- less Probably y the present panic would have ha come some time without him for those thieves thie of h igli finance can bring on a panic when the they please but all that does that that- does not blind the eyes of sensible people to to the real n nature nature ture of the president as it has been made clear by I his Bis is' is own words |