Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-10

| president wished to write. Much that
is said on this score is in the way of
rhetorical generalities.
Circumstances impelled the presi-
/ dent to write with next years election
| in view. The capitalists have found
| good deal of fault with him; in his
bestowment of attentions, sometimes
marked, upon the wage classes, he has
gone just far enough to make radicals
in these classes assert that he has not
gone far enough; yet he has gone just
far enough to make the other fellows
| those in capitals class-wary of him
less he play the part of demagogue
and SO strengthen labor's hands as
against capital.
That is the awkward attitude in
which President Roosevelt finds him
self at this moment. The season when
he must write his annual message
founl him compelled to bridge a chasm
which he reached as he advances along
the political highway he chose to trav-
Ell. He built it with these words:
"Whenever either corpor alton, labor
union or individual regards the law or
acts in a spirit of arbitrary and tv-
rannous interference with the rights of
others, whether corporations or indi-
vidua1s, then, where the federal gov
ernment has jurisdiction, it will see to
it that the misconduct is stopped, pay
ing not the slightest need to the position
or power of the corporation, the union
or the individual, but only to one vital
fact-that is, the question whether or
not the conduct in the individual or ag-
gregate of individuals is in accordance
with the law Of the land"
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be set down at once as sound doctrine.
Only, in its everyday application, agi-
Tutors will declare that any foe of la
Dor could generalize in some style,
while the orators for the money power
will assert that it is preccpt which, by
example and conduct, the president
does not make pratical. The whole
subject is one respecting which the
president had to say something; for
better or for worse he has said it.
The Standard regards President
Roosevelt as citizen who broadly
wishes to be just toward all money
and industrial interests, who has dealt
honorably with labor, who does not
merit the criticism aggregated wealth
has aimed at him, and who, in emerg-
ency, would do right. If he had been
less theatrical in some of his attitudes,
he would have been less exposed to the
criticism that has come his way.
Respecting many subjects the mes
sage is without executive Recommended
tons. Several matters, as must be
the case, are disposed of with mere
routine mention. Interest is shown in,
the grave questions involved in the
conservation of the public domain;
the message recognizes the fact that
public-land frauds exist, that individ
uals have dishonesty acquired too
much of it, that the regions thus
wrongly appropriated ought to be re-
covered and that several of the existing
acts under which land may be cap
tured by individuals need the atten
ton OF congress. The language of the
message is that the public land laws
need revision. The message takes ac-
count of the progress of irrigation
plans; it discusses naturalization, pos
tai frauds, the revenues and many 9th
er going topics.
Bat the heavy end of the message
deals with Columbia, Panama and the
canal. Manifestly the issues which,