The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-31
BusiRess and Commerce of the Coun-
try Increased and Extended by
Present Policies.
PROSPERITY, INDUSTRIAL AND La
BOR QUESTIONS DISCUSSED.
Democratic Propositions Condemned
rs Insincere and FaIIacious-HiIPs
SociaIistic Scheme.

NEW YORK, Oct. 3O.-Cooper Union was
filled tonight with people who had come
to attend a Republican meeting, the prin-
cipal speakers being Mayor Low, Governor
Odell and Secretary of War Root. Mr.. Low
eulogized Governor Odell and his admins
tration of State affairs Governor Odell fol-
lowed in an address in which he cast aside
as absurd the prediction that his majority
would be as small as some had pEophesied
Secretary of War Root spoke after the
Governor had finished and said in part:
The national issue of this political cam
paign, in its most important and practical
aspecs, is whether President Roosevelt
shall be sustained in his administration
OF the national government VIII the peo-
pie of the United States elect a House of
Representatives with a Republican ma
Jority. TO work in harmony with the Presi-
dent, and with the Republican majority in
the Senate, so that he may go on, he
has begun, with an effective government.
working out practically the plans for i'm
proving administration and for the remedy
OF evils along the lines upon which the
legislative and executive branches agree;
or VIII the people elect House with a
Democratic majority which will be hostile
TO the President, win not agree with him
upon any course of conduct and will hinder
and cmbarrass him in all his efforts for
the public good during the remainder of
his present term of office?
Ihere ought to be no indifference upon
tnlS question among the people of the State
OF New York. There ought to be no uncer-
tain Or faint answer to the question. III
the People of this State feel toward the
President as they did when they elected
him their Governor in 1898 and as they did
when they gave the electoral vote OF the
State TO him for vice president In 1900, they
viii answer. Still more, IL they think bet
ter OF him now than they did then, as l
believe they do; If they think he has made
a good President, as / believe they do; IL
hay t.rtd 0f i'm II frI fhatr
proud of his manly and noble qualities,
his courage, his frankness, his freedom
from guile and double-dealing, the genuine
ness OF his Republican simplicity. the sin
certify OF his love of country and of his
countryn1en, the rugged strength OF his
character. the exceptional power of his
ness and bodness with which he is grap-
ling problems of government when smaller
and selfishly polite men would temporize-
then the people of the Presidents own State
will do their duty by him as he Is doing
his duty by them. and will send representa-
Wbo viii 10 stapa by S, M 'ae and wnrh With bim
for the good OF the country. This is a
patriotic duty in every congressional dis
trict of the United States. but there is a
special obligation resting upon the people
of New York to support and hold up the
hands Of a son of New York when he de-
serves support.
REPUBLICAN RECORD.
'T am not going to talk about what the
Republican administration at Washington
has done further than to say that / believe
1T has been honest and efficient and that 1t
has accomplished successfully many diff
cult tasks, avoided many dangers and at
tanned many results beneficial and credita-
bic to the country. 1 think its policies
have been justified and its conduct Of af-
fairs approved by their fruits and that II Is
entitled to a continuance of public conf
dence. 1t will be difficult to find better
record of wise and paipstaking legislative
performance than Is furnished by the Re-
publican majority in the present Congress.
Besides dealing with all of the great ap-
preparation bills, with their multitude OF
difficult questions affecting the public well
fare. in their first session they relieved the
industry and property of the country from
the lurden of the war revenue taxes, they
settled by admirable statute the long
Vexed question OF the isthmiaD canal, they
inaugurated new system for the irrigation
of arid lands in the West, they worked out
and adopted laws for safe government of the
Philippine islands, exhibiting high order
of constructive ability All these great
measures received most thoughtful and
careful consideration and involved patient
and laborious work in committee and in
structive discussion in both houses. The
one case of urgent necessity for action
which failed of response was the bill for a
Just measure of reciIroc with Cuba; and
that was defeated by combination be-
tween the Democrats In Congress and a
small minority of the Republicans refusing
10 go with the majority of their party.
There is good reason TO believe that the
measure will succeed at the next session.
The people of the country have reason to
b. well satisfied with the ability, sense of
duty and honest patriotism of the Fifty
seventh Congress. No reason for changing
the 1litical complexion or the House OF
Representatives can be found in the past
action OF that body.
What is there to come which calls for
such a change? Is the reason TO be found
IN desire for the curbing of trusts, for an
effective treatment OF labor troubles or for
a revision OF the tariff? Certainly not.
NO NEW GRAVE DANGERS.
'.Our Democratic friends talk as IL some
capitalists securing undue profits and some
tariff provisions becoming outgrown with
changing conditions and some stubborn con-
tests between employers who wish TO pay
less and wage earners who wish TO be
paid more for labor were new and strange
phenomena, threatening our social and po-
htical system and calling for desperate
and revolutionary remedies. They are not
new or strange or threatening. They are
but reappearances IN sIigntly Variso s lori,i1 "a
ways accompanied material prosperity since
the beginning of successful enterprise.
Unfair and oppressive trusts. SO called
are weeds I'm the garden of prosperity, III
Is easy to kill them IL you Kill the Mowers
and the fruit also, but IL you would keep
the weeds down and have the garden grow
you must devote yourself, not TO desperate
and destructive remedies. but to patient
Discriminate and unceasfng process. pun,
ing out the weeds and leaving the useful
plants So. In curbing and regulating those
combinations Of capital which are injurious
70 the public, either because they monopo-
hZe the market or the sources or supply OF
the avenues OF employment. or prevent
competition unfairly and oppressiveiy, care
must be taken not to stop great enterprises
which have legitimateiy reduced the cos,
OF production not TO take America out ol
the race OF competition for the markets
OF the world. not to close the mills and tne
mines not to throw millions OF workmen ou1
sf employment and deprive the farmer Of