Show THE THE LIMIT OF F TOADYISM The fh Outlook sneers at the idea that this country will ever be in danger of having a dictator but declares declares declares de- de clares that the real danger is of an and cites the acts of Sen Senator tor Foraker to undo the work of the president in the Brownsville matter and of Senator Senator Senator Sen- Sen ator ator Ra Rayner ner to mitigate the sentence of the president resident resi- resi I dent in the Colonel Stewart case Of the Brownsville Brownsville Brownsville Browns Browns- ville case the Outlook says The rhe president convinced convinced con con- vinced that certain enlisted men were unworthy of or confidence and as soldiers dangerous both to the 4 army arm armand and to the people dismissed them from the serI ser- ser I vice This the president as commander in chief of V J the army armr had had th constitutional right to do f t. t That statement where not utterly false is misleading mis- mis leading c qing j The president is only commander mander in chief under the law and the law prescribes a way to deal with rith offenses S lC such as th the negro soldiers were charged with Then again the president was not convinced that the soldiers were dangerous to the arm army and the people He was simply angry that the soldiers in 1 ti those companies would not name the men that committed committed com com- t gritted the offense and he lie dismissed them because the they the would not at his command become informers 1 though to this day daJ he does not know that a single V V soldier in n those companies had an any au part in the street 1 difficulty It was a matter with which he as comm com coin mander m der in chief had not the slightest authority to do anything thing except to see that the matter was properly f. f investigated under the laws and rules of the service x Hence as we look at the matter the danger is not much of a dictator or on but put of those hero heroV V worshipers who make a fetish of a man and are ready to t fall down and worship him as readily as the host r under Sinai fell down and worshiped the golden calf The has the Outlook v president hypnotized We Ve dc not believe that he lie could do or propose to do anything anything any- any r thing no matter how dangerous or ridiculous that the J b Outlook ok would not ot prove that the thing was not only r right nut but necessary If the land was filled with men i ii V V V r I like the managers b of that magazine the president could dissolve congress and announce himself king and meet the tho warm wann approval of the crowd |