Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-09-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, Sept. 22nd, 1902.
From our Regular CorrespondentJ

the west is not started with boom,
it will not be from lack of interest
on the part of the federal authori-
ties. President Roosevelt has start
ed west on trip which will occupy
nearly three weeks, and during
which he will cover 5,43S miles.
In addition to his regular physician,
he is accompanied by DR.. Richard
son, a Washington throat specialist,
who will render such aid as is
necessary to keep the Presidents
throat in condition for the trying
amount of public speaking which IS
before him. 1t is confidently stat
ed, by those in position to know,
that the President will advance no
new and startling ideas, no innoVa-
tions in political economy, but will
appeal to the people on the ground
of a plain common sense and the
magnificent record which the Re-
publican party has made in the past.
He will warmly advocate his policy
of transferring the control of corp
orations from the several states to
the Federal Government and will
remind his hearers that the same
objections now advanced against
this policy were advanced when the
creation of the Interstate Commerce
Commission was first advocated.
The conditions which then govern
ed the railroads, and which still
prevail, have come to govern the
great industrial corporations and
the same general supervision by the
federal authorities that has proved
so salutary in the case Of the rail-
roads will prove equally efiicacious
in regard to the corporations, or
TRUSTS. He will present no new
phases in his representation of the
Cuban situation but will urge the
people to uphold his hands in his
efforts to secure reciprocity for the
new republic on the ground that by
so doing, he is carrying to its full
iillment the policy of his lamcnted
predecessor and is sustaining the
honor of the nation. He will dis
cuss freely and frankly the tariff
question and will prove to the people
how chimercal and unsound are the
arguments of those Democrats who
would reduce the tariff and en-
danger the whole financial fabric Of
the country for the purpose of re-
taliating on few trusts which are
taking advantage of their power to
unwarrantably advance prices. On
the other hand, he will declare that
the party is welded to no particular
tariff schedule and that, as cOndi-
tions necessitate, it will modify such
schedules as have outgrown there
usefulness. He will easily demons
trate that the welfare of the nation
demands that such changes in the
tariff as it may become necessary
to make be made by the Republican
party which created it and which is
capable of revising it, rather than
by the Democrats who are avoweC
unbelieyers in the protection o
American industries and mainten
ance of the high wages now receiv
ed by American wOrkmen.
In addition to the President
Secretaries Root, Shaw and Wilson
have also gone west and will address
audiences at various points. Secre
tary Root, whose destination i!
Peoria, will take the occasion to pa,
ahigh tribute to Gen. Wheaton wht
makes his home there, and who wa
recently retired. Secretary SHAY
will elucidate the policy OF the ad
ministration from the standpoint o
q businessman. Secretary Wilson
will address a few audiences on DO
litical questions but in the main h
will confne himself to an explana.
ton of the practical benefits whicl
his Department accomplishment
the American farmers and outline
of the work the Department nov
has under way hut the results q
which will not be attained unit