Show THE WAS WS AS P FAIR We e like c to pa pay a compliment even Iven evento evento to an nn enem enemy when he deserves es It lIe He deserve It often In Its Saturday Issue the Herald Quoted a paragraph from the time report of some Eastern paper In which a n ason ason son of President Roose Roosevelt veIl was sal salte said lo te have hav been a spectator at the Gans- Gans Nelson prize fight In Goldfield Time Thy Eastern publication described the conduct conduct conduct con con- duct of or the time young oung man ani and closed with an nn Interview with him Tho The Herald Is fair fall enough to say that no noson noson noson son of or the President was at Goldfield nor mior within two tivo thousand miles of or that place That Is true The Herald goes goe or to condemn the time careless or wicked habit of or newspaper men who print such matter mailer All of that Is so commendable that wo we can not but regret that tho the same sam Herald felt called upon to lo print th time tho following paragraph It cost the tho government something III Ike l to lo make a Roosevelt holiday holiday holi boil day tho the da day the great warships were wen r reviewed In Oyster Oster Bl Bay Tedd Teddy comes come high but you'll have o to stand him him tom for about two and one half years more It probably doesn't cost the government government govern govern- ment a n tenth of the money so keenly regretted by the Herald Ever Every ship hi n tho the naval parade would have been sailing ailing somewhere If sr it had not been at tho the parade Its cost of operation was as not Increased by a dollar because 01 ol its participation In the maneuvers It did cost something for fOL the President lent dent nt to go down re from Washington Washing Washing- ton on and tho the party that went with him ilm probably ha traveled at government expense There was some seine for forthe the time erection of stand aud a id that so ort t of thing But the tho act actual nl extra outlay was vel very little more than tho the usual expenses for the day It Is interesting to note however that If It had not been for fOl Theodore Theodora Roosevelt there probably wouldn't ha have hae e been any review worth seeing It was as he hc when second officer In hi th the Navy Nan department who began that thai work which resulted resulted In the time con condition o of preparedness ne s at the time of tho the lJ beginning beginning be be- ginning of or tho the war with Spain It Il Is due to his wise uise and effective management management man man- that the navy he then lien began to provide provide- has increased in strength th and effectiveness until It Is the arm atm of sufficient d defense rense for tor overy every interest in the United States everywhere In tho the won world d. d And I If it Is a n part of or his plan to have ha an occasional 1 review and to tn go godown godown down to the sea and aid look at the battleships bat bat- as they pass WhY pass why God bless him himi Let Lct him go And let us suggest that a n. paper which can bo 10 so fair to the son of the President ent should not In In- Inthe the next column discount Its own good credit by being unfair to time the President himself him him- self |