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Show Moral Support Demanded. Aside from an indomitable spirit of self-aggrandizement, there is an attitude of mind that renders men all but absolutely irrcsistable in their onward march toward a cherished goal. The man who is devoted, heart and soul, to a worthy cause, is. even much harder to resist than is he whuse dominant domi-nant passion is self-devotion. We have recently had several forcible and encouraging en-couraging exemplifications of this truth: notably, in the achievements of Governors Folk of Missouri and LaFollette of Wisconsin, but more particularly in the unprecedented triumphs of President .Roosevelt .Roose-velt over the machine politicians of his own party. It is, indeed, a cause for congratulation, on th part of the American people, that the president seems to be imbued with a singleness of purpose of the highest type; an ardent devotion to principle-and principle-and conscience that augurs well for the future of his cherished land as a result of his unselfish and fearless administration of its political affairs. Every good citizen, regardless of political affiliation af-filiation or bias, should accord to President Koosl-velt, Koosl-velt, unreservedly, his moral support in the latter'.- heroic determination and effort to rid the body politic of the incubus of unwarranted and baneful corporate influence and the other grave evils than are threatening the utter subversion of our beloved republican institutions. 4 In our shortsightedness we are apt to ignore the gravity of the problems just now confronting the nation. President Roosevelt evidently recognizes recog-nizes them, and we may fondly hope that in him we have one of those providential men whose mission it is to save a great people from degradation and destruction. . A ! |
