The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-03
Tribune, s s az, aOdays, 1909
Times, "a S s$s,.,. 50 days, 1915
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, REPUBLICAN


Theodore Roosevelt is doing more at
the present time to save the credit of the
republican party and perpetuate it's lease
Of power than any other man in it. And
this is true not simply because, being
president, he has peculiar opportunities
for service of this kind, but Is due rather
to the fact that he has the disposition 10
do those things which make for party SUI
premacy. s.
Take, for instance, the subject of the
trusts. Here he has cut the ground from
under the democratic party which has
hoped to win public favor by it's attitude
toward monopoly, and has forced it to
hunt for new issues. He has done this
not by indulging in any populistic declara-
tions or by proposing drastic legislation.
He has simply taken the laws which he
has found on the statute books, enacted
by republican congress for the protec-
ton of the public against corporations
and organizations in restraint Of
trade, and has proceeded to enforce them
through the courts. He has done this
so promptly and vigorously in the case
the big beef packers combine that illegal
trusts and combinations Of all kinds have
taken warning and are beginning to realize
that we have president who has regard
for his oath, and who cannot be deferred
from the discharge of his official duty by
threats of vengeance at the hands OF
merger presidents, or by the knowledge
hat oil &c OF ;ool
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Theodore Roosevelt is no respecter of
persons, and men and corporations that
violate the law and defy the government
will be called to account, no matter wha:
dire consequences they may threaten to
inf1ict upon him.
And it is not only in the matter OF
trusts that the president is saving the
credit Of the republican party and causing
It's platform declarations to be more than
mere empty promises, given>in campaign
times In the matter of irrigation he
stands for a broad and liberal govern
ment policy. favorable to the develop
ment of large areas which will, under
this policy OF protecting the interests o1
the public against private monopoly, be.
come inhabited by thousands OF thrifty
and prosperous families owning their OWE
homes.
For many years the stockmen Of the
west have enjoyed the free use OF ex'
tensive areas of public lands for the graz.
ing of their locks and herds. Under ths
conditions heretofore obtaining this was
perhaps we'll enough. But the benefci
aries of that custom have used the public
domain so long without interference tina
in come instances they seem to have ac
CURED the idea that it belongs to then
and they have built their fences upon /
and have taken possession OF it to thu
exclusion of the homesteader, who nov
desires to acquire it under the law
of the United States. Mr.. Roosevelt ha
taken the position that this unauthorize,
occupation OF the public domain canno
be consented to; that the fences erecte
by the stockmen upon public land mus
give way to the invasion of the. settle
under the homestead law.
In the same connection. he also resist
the proposition embodied In bills intro
duced in congress by friends of the stock