Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-12-07

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There Is scarcely O Republican OIL
prominence and means who Is not inter-
ested financially in some one OF these
great combinations. And the great mn
ancIers and their syndicates stana IN
the position they have chosen behind
the party Of the gold dollar ana tle
Dingley bill which made the great
commercial expansion Of the country
possible. TO man they are opposed
to any interference with the existing
conditions In the Senate, they are IN
trenched. In the House ditto
This Is the situation that makes the
Presidents message one OF the chlel
points OF interest at the opening vi
Congress. 1t will be a crucial test IN
the career Of Mr. Roosevelt so tar as
the uncompleted term Of Mr.. Mckinney
is concerned He has been accused OF
breaking his pledge made at Buifalo 70
carry out absolutely unbroken the pol
icy Of President Mckinley. He mas peen
reminded that IL he advocates federai
supervision OF trusts he VIII be run
ming counter TO the policy OF his prede-
cessor, who never hurt the trusts
FOLLOWING McKINLEY's POLICY.
This Is only to say that President
Roosevelt Is upsettlng the policy OF Mr.
Mckinley because he has suggestion
for the Stacking of trusts differing on
~ In detail from that urged by Mr.
Mckinley. For 1t has been fIgotten
only by the men who have been seek
ing to mislead Roosevelt, that the late
President only last December when
addressing Congress used this lam
guage:
Restraint upon such combinations as
are injurious and which are within fed
eral Jurisdiction should be promptly
applied by Congress-
And the Philadelphia Convention OF
1900 said this in It's platform;
eve condemn all conspracles and
combinations intended To restrict bus
mess, to create monopolies, to limit pros
ductlon or to control prices, and favor
such LEGISLATION as win effectually re-
strain and prevent all such abuses, pro-
tect and promote competition and Sc
cure the rights OF producers lahorers
and all who are engaged In industry
and commerce"
In the face of quotations like these
the criticism that the new President II
smashing the policy Of the old have rail-
en- fat. Thus the way is clear for plain
talk about the trusts without any
ground for his enemies TO stand on IN
substantiating the charge that he is go
ing against either the party or the Me-
Kinley policy,
NOW the question is merely one OF
language. win the President make
specific declarations, or will he content
himself with general references 10 the
evils of bad trusts and the benefits OF
yood ones? Harm 70 no trust, good or
had, Is likely TO follow general discus
sion. Specific references and the point
ing out Of remedies are sure to be fol-
lowed In the long run by beneficial re-
suits. That Is why the reading OF the
first Roosevelt message Is critical
point In the Roosevelt career
HIS HERITAGE A GREAT TASK.
Mr.. Roosevelt's friends now agree that
a mistake was made at Buffalo, when
on taking the oath Of office he pledged
himself to carry out absolutely UNI
broken" the policy Of President Mex W
ley, He was making a promise that ne
could not keep.
No living man could have followed out
the course OF the late President, who
had no equal in the history Of the coun-
try as manipulation of men, The real
" great things that he did were hard
for him, but they would have been I'M
possible of performance by any other
man.
Under the circumstances, II Is to
Roosevelts credit that he made that
pledge at Buffalo, His own heart was
deeply stirred by grief, and he had
had brought home to him the sense
of the nations loss and a realization Of
the wonderful capacity for statesman
shin of the man in whose footsteps he
would have to follow, He spoke from
the fullness of his heart. But now,
looking at II with cool mind, he sees
how difficult IL will be TO square per-
Torrance with promise, no matter how
hard he tries,
Look at some of the other questions
that President Roosevelt has Inherit
ed.
Take reciprocity. At Buffalo Presi-