Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1908 — THAT MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

THAT MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.

Brooklin Eagle: Congress should ont be unduly sensitive. It was not singled out for attack or for insult. It shares the fate of many. It shares the fate of the judge who 1b not a philosopher, and of every other man in the country whose views are not identical with those of the President. To differ from him is to be blind or cunning, or law-defying, or a wrong-doer, or a swindler, or a bribe taker, or a bribe giver, or wrongheaded or a traitor. Jo see things not as the President sees them is to be either a knave or a fool, with more than a mere possibility of being both. There is but- one infallibility in the country. There is but one conscience subject to no reproach, one mental machine so perfectly organized that it never slips a cog. It is no reflection upon the most highminded and capable Senator to say that he does not and can not match the matchless; it infers nothing discreditable to the ablest and most scrupulous member of the House of Representatives to say that the effulgence of the President is radient by comparison with his own. For proof, refer to the message, to the lash used with “stern happiness,” and to the flanks that quiver. It is conclusive.