The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-09-12
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WAsHINGToN, D. c., September 9Th.
MR.. ED1ToR:-Either Mr.. Roosevelt is
developing into masterful politician or
else he has some exceptionally clever ad
visers, is the verdict of the democratic
managers in this city. His apparent de
sire to accomplish control of the trusts
was surprise to the democrats, involving,
as it did, clever scheme for diverting
public attention from the one essential
remedy, tariff revision, but he has carried
the game still farther and has succeeded
in getting Senator Plat to announce that
he will not favor the Endorsement of Mr..
Roosevelt in the New York republican
State convention, and aided and abetted
by the leading republican papers has
created the impression that Wall Street
is against him. With those persons who
do not see through the ruse the scheme
will prove successful. The large majority
of the people have come to regard Wall
Street as adverse to their interests, and
rightly so and general impression that
Wall Street is opposed to Mr. Roosevelt
will make for him popularity on all sides.
A careful examination of the facts, how
ever, does not warrant the proposition
that Wall Street regards the President
with aversion. He has done all that the
Street cauld ask and more. The tariff is
the mother of trusts. Every careful OBJ
server knows that, and Mr.. Havemeyer,
of Sugar Trust fame, has stated so when
placed under oath by the Industrial Com
mission. The President has carefully
avoided any reference to the tariff in his
speeches and has in the main defended
the trusts. He has admitted that some
trusts were pernicious, but has implied
that the majority were not and has advo-
Gated remedy for the control of the in
furious ones which cannot be applied for
years and not, at least, until most Of those
at present interested in the trusts shall
have passed to their long reward. Should
the next House of Representatives be
strongly democratic there is absolutely no
reason to believe that the Senate, which
cannot become democratic for at least six
years, would sanction a constitutional
amendment which might prove inimical
to the interests of the trusts in which they
are. generally speaking, large sharehold
ers. Were the next House to remain re-
publican, it is more than probable that
such an amendment as would be proposed
by the republicans would contain features
which the democrats could not afford TO
support and, in any event, the Senate
would defeat it. Again, assuming that
Congress passed through both its branc'' S
the amendment advocated by the Presi-
dent can any sane man imagine the New
Jersey legislature, for instance, approving
it. Can anyone imagine the Ohio legisla-
ture under the dictation of Senator Hanna,
approving it. Can anyone imagine the
Pennsylvania legislature, which is COM
pletely under the domination of Senator
Quay, giving its ratification, of the West
Virginia legislators voting for it without
the consent of Senator Elkins, which they
would never gety Every prominent dem
ocrat in Washington declares that the
Presidents proposed remedy is impracti-
cal and chimercal and is intended only
as blind to circumvent the demand of
all democrats and of the western republi-
cans for a removal of the tariff on trust
made goods.
Under the circumstances there can be