The Daily News SATURDAY, JANUARY 25. THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 324, 25 January 1908, Page 2

The Daily News SATURDAY, JANUARY 25. THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

| Em i ;...u> . a- Mi- W. S. I.illiei-l hl.tj- , in.i\' r> u-U-, i- Imni fillier a Liberal

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i.ii-a I'a.u. Hi-.' mime "I man can i;e -,i ,-„■., I.v Hie pa-nig of A. ts of i'arlia-'.',-'m. but thi- i- h.\ the way. liefer 1,- \uierican l '.institution the llnee . ,-.,!. administrative brandies- the c.\e -alive. Icgi-latixr. and judicial- were kept .li.tin.l and apart. Ihe cxc.-uii-.c ,- uji e-poii-iblc to Congiess. 'I he I're-ideiii is dc-led l.\ file people, and he i- left to draw around him the men h - i.i nk- iie-t qualined to aid him 111 ~11 mug 011 lh<' government. The couii- , >• '„. di'.'.l.-.-l. politfcalh. into the IX'iin•iut- -ml tiie Kepublicau-. rcprcse,ili:ig 111.. -land still- .11111 fin go-forward-, and ;n 11.1 land under Hie .-1111 has siicli lidcc party warfare raged a* in the land where it was sought to avoid the appearance [ of any party warfare at nil.

The I're-ident of America, elected fur. four years, is practically a king during hi- period of otlice. The whole executiv: .uilhoritv ami administration. '-'>■ ...ii.-r with Ine loreign relationship, "t ;n.' state, are under hi- mill ml. lie nib - o<cr eighty million- "i human bein..-. The elevation of such a potcnla .1. llieiolore. should ne a matter of worldwide interest. As a matter of fact it doe- not appear to concern the world at all. The jH'oplc of .New Zealand know ver\ little about it, and care le-s. Very liii'.lcntiy America has been very busily 1 lr.aged'in minding her own business and endeavouring to master her own troubles, but when the time arrives wb-eli will give her leisure to east an ! altitude ol iuilillereiice she may ; lo dav her population is double that of i Kngla'ud 01 France, and the measure of hoi resources t-!.iuds in the same pro ' |„,:-:ion. From the old lands of the earili i povalalion- are Hying to her shores ami i Hi' proportion changes: always lo their ': w -unc--. always toiler added strength. I \\ i- 11 the dav'of lei-ure comes to her ! America will'be a very mighty pow-r iiie 'd. Thin, the -land -till or go-io.-- ! w.'.M nature ol the coming prcsi.lcnl- ■ kin': mav prove a matter Al' uveiwhcliu- ' in..' eoiisei|iien:e lo file people of every ! na! on. In the American Coiislitmi..n' i there i- nothing lo pie-i-nt a president ! being elected every four years for the rei -Hinder of his life, but it has come to lie .111 understood thing a kind of miI wriiti-ii law—that to be twice elect -d I lo ;he presidency snoiild be siillirienl for an.- man. President Uoosevelt was i vie' -president under President JlcKinley, jan I he rose to the presidential chair thi-iigh the murd.-r of hi- chief.

lie has oitlv ouve been elected prc-i----,|,i::. by the'votes of the people, so that if i wo a strict attention to the unwri--l?i: law he required it is open to him tu again present himself as a candidale. At the time of Mis election, however, I'r-ident lioosvvelt positively plcdg, ,1 Irc-clf that he would not stand again, ail': this pledge raises a question tlir.t i- mil of int. rest to peoples far removed I'lii-a America. Kvery man in public life iiiu-t have enemies—it. is a natural coriillin of ilie position. The enemies of I'lvsjcieni Koosevelt are the syndicate anil iru-t-mongers, the plutocrats whose li-'ii l/iu.irters is .xew York. It has been allirmi'd by an authority that so extremely popular is President lioosev.il tlnoi:»lniiit ihe country that if his naiie is submittal at the Kepnblican Convention a-a c li.hlle he would Ik-accepted almost iinanim.Mislv. the onlv di-smli-cnis being probably a lew members from New York. Through the war he initialed against iru-ti. through hi- attitude ioi the immigration, the I'anama and other questions, the couutrv has conlido.ue in President Koosevelt -the tried mail with whom it is familiar-and calls . for a continuation of his services, bul it can't get them because he adVeres to his pledge. This s is to show tinfolly nf any man pledging himself to any cuius,• of action four years in advance, t 'eriaiiiiy it must be agreed that no pnbit- man ha- a right to di-count time to -inn an extent, lo whom is it given to lift with coiilidcncc the veil that shrouds the future. I'rosidcnt I'doscvoH woiiil give his nie for his country as oth-r pre-idem- have done, vet four vcais U g., in- pledged him-eli to'refuse to give his sennes. A piimie man is the property of Iho | pie. ami it docs not lie with iiim !■■ dispose „| himself. This i s t |„. lir-i aspect.

The 5,,,, nd ii equally interesting. Howfar i- any public man justilied in stu- ! pidly adhering to any stupid promise'/ ! Hi' morse, it may he slid that a stupid I public man is no good to anybody, but a in'-takc may be 'made by the wisest. I the most perfect, and the most patriotic ! It would lie unwise to classify President II! .'ii'll as .stupid because he uttered j one ..tiipid sentence. The mistake liein" discovered, why should it he suffered l<> stand in the way of the wishes of the whole coiiutty being gratified ? Supposing iliat instead of a war against trust* it was a racial war. again a rebellion of StuV.. m- a great struggle with another nation, would a president lie jusiilied in abandoning the helm of affairs I, one ,\-ho was untried and inexperienced -imply liecau-c a emi-idernlile time ptc-vioii-ly he hail promise,) to do -o. having no ci.neeption Unit such dilliculties would arise: Ciniiunatu- at the plough was e\lni;tcl to come and save linine. Suppose !i,- had replied; •• |.',„„- vt . illv ~„„ | told you that I wouldn't, and I won't!" There are those who hold that a pledge oin-e -iveii shouhl |, ; . rie„r„,|s|v adhered 10 even if Hie heavens lull. I,„t perhaps il would !«. moie iii.liciou- t„ allirm that as „„. foolish act -liould nut be suffered I" Idi-t a man", lite, so one indiscreet -I -h should not be allowed to weigh agaiiiM the int! rests „f : , nation.