The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-06
Does It Indorse ?

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ascertained republican majority Of thirty
in the house Of the fifty-eishth congress
is only a qualified Endorsement Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's administration, be-
cause it indicates a cutting down Of the
majority in the present house and gain
in the democratic strength in the new
house.
This plea is not worth serious consid-
Grafton. The democrats are still in
minority as to voting strength, and the
republican ma jority. now returned for the
next house is as good as q majority Of
sixty, for it is entirely probable. that there
will be In the ffty-e eighth congress no
fire in the rear upon the administration
by members of his own party, as was un-
fortunately the case during the first ses-
sion Of the fifty-seventh congress. The
republican party is not going to commit
political suicide by deliberately opposing
a conspicuously growing: tendency within
it's own ranks to repudiate the theory Of
an absolutely Interchangeable tariff, sacro-
sanct as to it's quality, and of which it is
sacrilege to speak lightly or to propose
reconstruction.
The president, in his Logansport Speech
last summer, definitely proposed the or
ganfzation Of a permanent tariff COM
mission, in full recognition of the in
creasing public sentiment in his own party
and everywhere else in favor Of judicious
revision of the tariff and the negotiation
of comm ercial treaties involving reduc-
ton of duties for the promotion Of our
export trade. This proposition does not
meet with general acceptance, on the part
Of the advocates of revision even, but it
reveals the fact that the administration
reads without glasses the prevailing CRAWL
tation of business sentiment toward the
removal Of all really useless artificial OBJ
structions to trade expansion abroad. The
country, during the past five months, has
heard and pondered upon and been en-
lightened by the practical and luminous
speeches Of our. great public-s spirited
president, who is not content to PROFOUND
theories of administrative reform and
compound in the sociological laboratory
salve for the healing Of the wounds of the
social state merely, but works out plans
| for betterments in his own mind and, in
| stead Of pigeon-holing them, proceeds to
| apply them. Thus, he set in motion all
| the existing laws enacted against unjust
! transportation discrimination and the Or
ganization and operation. Of injuriously
monopolistic industrial consultations, an6
struck at easy going transgressors In a
| way which made them profane enough tt
| make the atmosphere blue around them
The fearless and honest and practica
statesman within two months has at.
| tackled and overcome what many timorous
refOrmers pronounced an impasse in the
problems Of economics, and, by his earnes
persistence, common sense and practica
craftsmanship, and honest diplomacy
succeeded in bringing the obstinate
operators in the anthracite region and thu
equally obstinate strike leaders, to consen
to q rational composition of their differ
ences. He so wrought that he made tn.
operators see that they must either accep
! the terms Of a settlement which he ha(
| drawn up, or shoulder the tremendous re
sponsibflity Of defying the public and con
tinuing a situation hourly growing NOR,
intolerable by rejecting them:
The president, by his splendid publ
spirit, not only received the highest com
pliments from his political enemies, blu
recovered for his party the moral groun
lost by the previous internal differences
The presidents administration has bee1
finely Endorsed by the balloting of Tues
day. During the recess Of congress he ha
become stronger with the. masses. The
, know genuine defender and champio
of public interests when they see his mod
OF action. Thus, after. all the unparal
) leled efforts of the democrats to crippl
| the administrations good work in the las
session of congress and since; after tn
:, frantic efforts to misrepresent mos
/ damnably the presidents motives tina
party finds itself helpless to- obstruct an
. harrass the party of progress. *''