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Show SO DANGEROUS. The Salt Lake Herald is awfully afraid of Roosevelt. He is the man "with the big stlok," " t I '.i j iH and the Herald is sure he will use tt if he can but H bring around an occasion for it. No matter how childish all that may be, the M Herald must say something. The President does M believe in the big stick just as did George Wash- M ington when he warned his countrymen to "In H time of peace prepare for war." He was a con- ''M servative and wise old man, and those were the :M words ho spoke to his countrymen when he re- ;-H tired, covered with honors, to pass the remainder S '!H of his life in the calm of Mount Vernon. 1 H The strange part of the business is that the ;H Democracy will raise that kind of a bug-bear be- j j H fore a high souled, martial people. Those people J 'H know that a President cannot declare war, they j 'H know that congress never will deolare war except ! H as a last resort; they further know that while the H President would be glad at all times to see the na- .H tion prepared for any emergency, he would at all H times do his very utmost in order to avoid a war. In this he has the full trust of the people, and moreover, when the people read the dissertation vH of Judge Parker on the blessings of peace, they !H do not forget that there was once a President nf , his kind. The last of the old regime of Demo- j cratic Presidents, who when the flag was hauled down and insulted, when the forts of the nation s were bombarded and taken, when the dismember- j ' ment of the Union was going on, sat helplessly in the White House and declared that he had no i l constitutional authority tp interfere. It cost the nation 400,000 glorified lives, four thousand millions of dollars, tears enough to float a navy and heart-burnings that have not j j yet all passed away to pay for that awful weak- J ness on the part of the chief executive, and they j ; ' want no return of that experience and shame. It ll is strange that Democrats will raise in a cry when j they at every reunion of their hordes, repeat reverently rev-erently the name of Jackson next that of Jeffer- I son. Jackson the fighter, Jackson the quarrel- j ', some, who even when President was embroiled j ' 3 repeatedly in rows' that a prudent man would j have avoided. Why do they revere him? Solely ! because down deep they knew he loved his coun- , ' try better than ho did he life, that he was ready j . ( f at any moment to fight personally any single foe, j and was ready if the honor of his country demand- j j ed it to pit his country against the world in war. j j - And they who worship Jackson are still afraid of Roosevelt, who, had he never been educated or j disciplined, would have been more like Andrew Jackson than any man who has appeared in publio J 1 life since Jackson died. It will not do. The re- j bound of the boomerang Strikes and shatters their i highest Idols, their most cherished memorials. j That cry will well nigh give Tennessee and ' ' Missouri to Roosevelt, it will cause 60,000 Texans j ! to remain away from the polls on election day. No appeal to the cowardice of the American people over won, and this government will not be worth - ' l preserving when it does. Secretary Hay, who is closer to the President than any other man, de- i clares that no man is more amenable to reason, j no man is more anxious to preserve the peace of ' I hisfauntry tha.n is the President. j7Most important and delicate questions will have to be met in the next four years, questions that will require nerve and judgment and firmness. Would the country breath easier if it thought that at i I B ' in March next Roostvelt and Hay would be suc- B ceeded by Parker and Hill? The lions to give B way to the foxes? H II ! |