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Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-07-26 | Page 14 | Greedy Statesmen

Type issue
Date 1913-07-26
Paper Salt Lake Herald-Republican
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Greedy Statesmen
Type article
Date 1913-07-26
Paper Salt Lake Herald-Republican
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 14
OCR Text GREEDY GREED Y S STATESMEN TA I jT is jg most touching touching- of course to learn that Mrs I 1 IT William Villiam T T. Br Bryan an has bas left Washington for her home in to preserve e fruits and make malc pickles for the winter season But it is jg doubtful whether this carefully prepared picture of the simple domestic virtues in the wife of the Secretary of i State will nm erase crase from the public memory that other impressionistic likeness of the Secretary as an unblushing unblushing un un- un- un blushing exponent of plutocracy Tho mental photograph photograph photo photo- f graph th tho country has of fro Mr tr Bryan in full pursuit P of tho money devil dovil not to chastise e but to embrace I him is most niost too vi vivid id to 10 bo be off effaced aced b by this all nU too toof palpable effort to divert public scrutiny f If there be those who rho have o failed to understand I President Wilsons Wilson's complacent endurance of tho neglect neglect neg neg- j lect of duty on the part of his premier we can spur I their comprehension Mr Wilson remains the single American who tho finds no fault with Mr B Bryans Bryan's money money- I grubbing Drubbing proclivities because the tho President himself is isI I no I less s en engaged in the same eama direction While the tho Secretary Sec See r coins his profits with his tireless organs of I speech the President is earning his fortune with his pen I Under contract with a literary syndicate that peddles ped ped- I dI S' S effusions to the newspapers Mr Wilson is daily I busy with his contributions AJl Jl the newspapers of I importance in the tho United States are being lx bombarded I by circulars from this g syndicate offering for ten dollars dol dol- I lars mrs weekly to add the thc Pre President id t t to tho the tho staff of each The most recent letter reads read like his Ulis You did not take talc advantage of oC the tho opportunity vo wo offered you von some time ago o to obtain n thc President oCr or of orthe tile the United Stat States 9 as a. a weekly contributor but bait a lar large e eHilt r lift Hilt of or the country's best beat papers paper dill did take advantage of or this opportunity So o successful ha has this series eres been that I we wc have c arranged c tl for Cor a n second series erles of or articles of or Pre Pres President I ident Wilson l un which will be ha released beginning Jul July 27 1 J and will treat of or the following following- subjects I The TIle list of subjects upon which Mr Ir Wilson hAsI has I contracted to write range from Benevolence or Justice Jus Jus- I tice to 10 Tho Liberation of a n Peoples People's Vital Energies There Rr are arc ten of them and each will vill require ample I time and Inri unremitting application on tho the part port of or the I c- c executive ee e for whoso whose exclusive e services the people of I the United States po pay a n year eal In considering I this thi condition ono one must reflect that while whilo Mr Bryan gets o month Mr f r. r Wilson draws month- month r 13 b Con e Conversely lj the latter has never nc pretended to be bethe bethe the thc great commoner and his fon fondness for tho the borrowed borrowed bor bor- rowed rovel fl fleshpots of the rich was well weil known k during I his t tenure nure n ns ti president of Princeton t Tho rhio President condones Mr rr Bryans Bryan's absence from fromI I Washing Washington on lIt at a n time when his lis duties should be absorbing hi his attention because the tho President him himself elf elfis j 1 is engaged in Ui the tho same pursuit of tho the money dovil lovil lint hut in a ii l different way Those who have havo road rood of Mr 1 Wilson's Wilsons h b t of locking himself in ill his study fOlI for fOl I many hours hour several ee times each week and who shared I the tho writers writer's theory that tho the President was carefully scrutinizing ng important state papers know more than a the they did Thc They can comprehend that tho the Pr President i t seeks 5 this seclusion not to give undivided attention f t. t c to the thc public business but to write his lIis weekly conI contributions con con- I to t the newspapers for which each of them pays him 30 10 I Tho Thoc who ho are fond of figures ma may readily compute com corn f the we weekly addition to the tho Presidents President's in income como when hen it is understood tood that two hundred daily newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers of or the United States Stated weekly pay Mr Wilson Tilson ten telL dollars each for each ench one of those articles Even en at nt that rate we wo doubt whether he can render his sue sue- candidacy for the presidency as ns remunerative as us hn hns Mr h- h Bryan his succession of defeats
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