The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-22
mission abroad, # he cares to have t;
 Chances of Mr. Knox.

It will be recalled that during his re- scept Western tour President Roosevelt Tn lfncrease bf the trusts and Advocated their pFptegp tstff6fion. This might make 1t look as though he would not retain At- tqrney General Knox because Of the isr, ol Company, But the dtssiculty presents
 Where can a lawyer of the Hfst rank be found who ,s is nSt or trst nss not
 Nofone doubts Mf. Khox's legal ability er.his personal integrity, and. tfcse Icing granted. itsfs only necessary to rec pllect that he now holds brief -fpr the Cnited States in the matter of the trusts and that he will, of course. doh hts duty> s;
 But neither he nor any other lawyer, evensstlfe most rabid trust sm asher, can do. anything save what the law psrnnits. and when it comes to that theie are plenty-of public men, some even who de- claim in public against trusts. who admit in private that 1t is praosi;aiiy imp1ssi. running the business and industries Cf the whole country:
 The problem is very difficult one to Gf uiis ana re s me fesson to that any better heed ot the legal branch Of the government can be found than the present one, the more especially if he Is looked for among lawyers whose abii- ity has asuever. caused them to be eM- ployed< by the great interests of the cotln- try that are continually on the watch for. the best legal talent and pay the
 President Roosevoft's. attitude toward the trusts is essentially that of the late President, that they should be controlled but that they have been created by mod ern conditions.i-
 It is not believed that he is going to set out upon a crusade against them or be- the octopus. notwithstanding his fondness for hunting game of all sorts and sizes. Good Politics in Suggested Course.
 In fine, it is believed by those who know that he will so conduct himself az to with the appanse. and ssv, Gonn1ence en ss 2, West as Teddy, the Rough Rider, he VII win the East as Theodore Roosevelt the statesman. 'ta,,, want to be nominated by his party. ID 1904 and he knows that to bring thal about it is necessary. to convince Ais party and country that he Is safe as we'll as a vigorous and. when the occa- sion arises, an aggressive Chief Execu' tive. public man vastly in the last decade. He has been broadened insSnis views and widened in his aims. He has by con tact with men learned that man can not formulate a theory in his closet and 0o out and rule the world by 1t. He is far abler and stronger man now than when he was Civil Service Commisston- er under Renjamin Harrison, or Police Comrissiorier under Mayor Strong, or Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the earlier days of McKinley's admlnistra. ton, or even when Governor of New York though 1t was In that office that he grew faster than at any other period of his fife. >-r
 Fon these reasons his friends here are confitieHt that he will prove an exception to Vice-f resfdshtS Who became FreA dents, and unlike, Tyler. Fillmore. John
 son and Arthur. wiii{ prove acceptable to his pafty and be rewarded by a nom ination and election to. the preeidental office to which he has fallen heir by 2 tragedy that has mortified the civilizet H,nrid --- ... A. B. A..