Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-10-07
ENDORSE THE PRESIDENT.

President Roosevelt's action in re- gard to refusing to discharge govern ment emplOye at the autocratic be- hest of labor unions seems to meet with universal approval, democratic papers even failing to try to make 3o- litical capital of it. The Kansas City Journal, republican, says:
 "'The presidents s attitude must com mend itself to every fair minded citi- zen, unioniCt or non unionist. He will not refuse to receive the union labor leaders. He will treat them courteously. He will give them a respectful hearing. But he warns them beforehand that he has taken his stand on the constitution and laws of the country, and that no pressure they may employ will budge him. He is the president of the whole people, and not merely of trade unionists. The government printing office is, there fore, and is to be as long as Roosevelt is president, an ''open shop" He has, of course, no desire to alienate the labor unions. They are consid- erable factor in the politics of the country. But he does not propose to let considerations of self interest swerve him a degree from what he re- gards as the line of duty. His atti- 
 tude is characteristic of the man candid, fearless and just.
 The Prescott Courier, which seldom sees anything in a republican official to endorse, no matter how fair and just it may be, has the following very sensible and logical endorsement of the presidents action:
 "The action of President Roosevelt in refusing to commit the government of the United States to the principle that only members of unions can work in government work shops, was an ac tion which was forced upon him by the extremists in labor organizations, and these extremists are the worst en- emieS of organized labor today, be. cause they make the organization ri. diculous by attempting to force it in | to absolutely untenable positions. Whenever any government takes the stan1 that its citizens must belong tc any organization, either of capital oI labor, before they can work for theiI daily bread, right then whatever or ganiZation is so. selected by the gov ernment really becomes the. govern ment itself, Apd a government the most tyranical the earth ever saw, and the liberty of the citizen is destroyed. The majority of the American people believe in labor unions, and theil sympathies are naturally with labor, ing people in any just efforts to i'm prove their condition, and the best friend of the laboring man is not the one who agrees with him on every proposition, but l. ii- 1an whn ias the courage of his coLV.c,..,,-. io tell him when he gets into all uu'enable position. Undoubtedly, republicans ism, as represented by Roosevelt, stands for the trusts and means gov ernment of the trusts and by the trusts, but the presidents action in the matter referred to is backed by every constitutional ground and the declaration of independence itself. :"
 The first part of the last sentence of the above is contradictory of the remainder of the article, as well as contrary to actual facts President Roosevelt's administration is the first to have tackled the capitalistic trusts, and his action in this matter as in re- fusing to obey a mandate of the labor trust, makes it apparent that ali trusts look alike to him, and none of them can dominate his action.