Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-10-23

They Have Gained Subst
| The success of President RoOse-
vrit III tbr settlement of this strike
has f,r-rcaching fleets beyond what
most Peop!e imagine. For the pres
ent it ensures the coal miners a prop.
er compensation for their labor; it
relieves the coal famine; it keeps the
wheels of manufacturing establish
ments humming; it spreads the sails
of commerce, and brings prosperity
to the farmers and business men.
For the future it means an equitable
law to adjust the oft recurring strifes
between capital and labor, and to
hold in check the grasping chartered
corporations and the monster trusts.
The manner in which President
Roosevelt took hold of this great
question, after his learned Attorney
General advised ,him that he had
no legal authority to act, showed the
same grit that took him from his
snug Office in Washington to fight
under his country's flag at Santiago.
He kew that as President of the
United States he had underlined pow
ers of great potency which he could
exert when the welfare of the peo-
pie demanded it. When his first
courteous invitation brought the
President of the p. & r. Railroad
and other magnates to the White
House he found them Obdurate.
With a weaker man this would have
been the end of it,-not so with
President Roosevelt, it spurred him
on, he invited them to come again,
and they came. J. Pierpont Nor
gan, king of trusts, and Baer, head
of corporations, yielded, and Mitch
ell, chief of labor consented. The
principle of arbitration in the settle
ment of contentious between capital
and labor is recognized and will now
be established by law. A great per-
il has beenaverted; great prece
dent for the future has been estab-
lished.
This has been done on the verge
of an election. Will the people of
Pennsylvania rise to the occasion and
sustain the Presidents action? 1t is
well known that Pennypacker repre-
sents the National Administration
Chas. Emory Smith, fresh from the
Cabinet of the President, spoke last
week at Williamsport as follows: =
son the other hand | would ask Mr..
Pattison: Would any harm come from
your election which wonld not come from
Judge Pennypacker? And would an
swer, yes, thousand times, yes, for your
election would show that the people Of the
great State oil Pennsylvania were faltering
in their allegiance to the splendid work
and noble administration inaugurated by
the great martyr President, William Nc
Kinley and so successfully and gloriously
carried forward by his patriotic, strenuous
and high minded successor, that true man
of the people, Theodore Roosevelt. 1t
would instantly overcast the sky with a
cloud of distrust and would 90 far to par.
alze the great prosperity which we now
enjoy"
If the Presidents ticket should be
defeated in Pennsylvania, in the face
of the great service he has ,ust rend.
cred to the people, it would tie his
hands, it would paralyze his strength.
1t would elate the corporations and
send joy to the king of trusts.
! We feel that this is time when
we may call upon our fellow citizens,
irrespective of party, to rise to the
occasion and sustain the President
with a majority, in Pennsylvania, ot
two hundred thousand.
w HOFFMAN WTTHDDALT