he president had of showing his gratitude. Burton should have
known better and taken warning. Whenever Roosevelt gets that near to a
man something is going to happen. "My dear" is then due to be
metamorphosed with startling suddenness into an "atrocious liar."

Roosevelt can brook no rivalry. He is the self-appointed central
luminary in the solar system. All others must be contented with being
fire-flies. He must violate all traditions and smash all precedents. He
is spectacular beyond the wildest dreams. He must have the center of the
stage and hold the undivided attention of the audience. Any stunt will
do when the interest lags. A familiar turn with a prize-fighter or a
"gun-man" is always good for an encore. Nothing is overlooked. A dash to
Panama with a fleet of battle-ships and a battery of cameras and a squad
of artists and reporters is good for thousands of columns about the
marvelous virility and fertility of the greatest president since
Washington. He is followed with minute and eager details as he darts
from cellar to roof, inspects every shingle, wears a solemn expression,
throws a shovelful of coal into the furnace, snatches a bite from a
workingman's pail, shakes hands with a startled section man and is off
like a flash to look after some other section of the planet that it may
not drop out of its shining orbit.

Mighty savior of the human race!

Such is Theodore Roosevelt, the president who condemns workingmen as
murderers when they are objectionable to the trusts that control his
administration.

Archbishop Ireland, the plutocratic prelate, will cheerfully certify to
Roosevelt as the anointed of the Lord. And this will make another
interesting chapter for a later review; a chapter that will deal with
Ireland as the political as well as spiritual adviser of "Jim" Hill and
the Great Northern, and of court decisions awarding him thousands of
acres of land and making of the alleged follower of the Tramp of Galilee
a multi-millionaire; a chapter that will tell of a high priest sounding
the political keynote to his benighted followers in exchange for a
promised voucher for a red hat to be worn in a land of freedom in which
the state and church are absolutely divorced.

Only a few of the facts about Roosevelt and his regime have been here
stated, but enough to satisfy all honest men that _Theodore Roosevelt is
the Friend of the Enemies and the Enemy of the Friends of this
Republic_.

INDUSTRIAL AND