The Owosso times., 1903-09-25


the president of the United States. His
warmest friends admit that he does OF
always proceed in the most diplomatic
way to the accomplishment of his pur.
poses. Being man of strong character
and strong convictions, he is brusque
and direct when most in earnest and on
occasions finds it necessary to reconcile
an opposition which he had no thought
of creating. But such errors as have
been charged to him are those of detail
and not essentials. Being man whose
intuitions are almost prophetic and
whose actions follow quickly upon an
accepted suggestion, he finds it difficult
to keep within the tiresome and annoy
ing restraints of government red tape.
Slow action is foreign to his nature and
it is matter of time for him to learn
that the traditions must be held sacred
just as they were in the famous ''cir-
cumlocution Office" where there was
something like trip around the world
directness could reach by crossing the
street.
The president has not been and prob
ably never will be weaned from his
abrupt ways, but he is proving reve-
lation to those who formerly treated his
promptness as impulsiveness and as the
evidence of a judgment that would
have to be frequently reversed. There
is forced abandonment of the idea
that he has been playing the game of
politics and that his policies could be
changed by powerful enemies threaten
ing him with termination of his
presidential career at the end of the
present term. The intimation from
Wall street that its wealth would be
used against him in the next national
campaign did not swerye him hairs
breadth from his plan Of dealing with
the great combinations inimical to the
public welfare. The test cases pending
when this attempt at intimidation was
made are still pending and there is no
thought of abandoning them. AS one
of the advisers of modified currency
bill when the speculative operators
wanted one that would insure expan-
sion after the plan proposed by Sena-
tor Aldrich, he again served notice that
he is the president of the people and
not of Wall street.
All this, said the doubling ones, was a
bid for the labor support. The answer
came quickly and left them without
leg to stand upon. Under the pres
sure of an emergency he has taken a
stand in the case of Assistant Foreman
Miller, of the government printing
office, that has aroused all the hothead-
ed element of organized labor to threat
en- the defeat of Roosevelt as soon as
they get chance at him. This has not
frightened him into the dismissal of
Miller or any attempt to placate the
disgruntled.
Rather than retreat from position
which is absolutely correct, and to
abandon which would be dangerously
like treason, he would prefer to go
down fighting for what he thinks to be
right In succession the president has
locked horns with what are regarded as
the two great political forces of the
nation and neither has been able to
worst him. In the grand total he has
more friends and firmer friey ds than at
any previous time since he was SO sud
denly called to his present responsible
ties. The demand of the national stu
alton is for the fearless man with
honest purposes, and the conviction
grows that he is on duty. Wall street
realizes that it took the wrong
stand and labor is rapidly moving to
the same conclusion, while the masses
rejoice that they have worthy cham
pion ip the field.-Detroit Free Press