Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-03-25
He Gathers Strength

I the merger decision, says:
POLITICALLY, the effect of the de-
T cision can hardly be exaggerated.
at will greatly strengthen Presi-
dent Roosevelt as a candidate
People will love him for the enc
mics he has made. Mr. Cleveland
lost popularity among the demo-
cratic masses by not enforcing this
law. Mr.. Roosevelt will gain by
enforcing it.
at cannot now be said that the
republican party is owned by the
trusts. 1t cannot now be said that
Mr.. Roosevelt is controlled by
them. His prospects of reelection
were not small before; they are
brighter today, and, barring some
act of impetuous unwisdom on his
own part before November, brighter
will they remain.
"But in the last analysis it is
not the president who has tri-
umphed. 1t is not the court. 1t
is not the law. 1t is the people
the plain people who elect presi-
dents and set up courts, and
through their representatives do
ordain laws.
"The president did what public
opinion called for. The law itself
was framed because public opinion |
demanded it.
st is public opinion and the
peoples will that has triumphed,
and in the end it must always tri-
umph, in the court of last resort"
The Wall Street Journal, the
leading financial authority OF the
country, commenting on the above,
says: at is only fair to say that
in those things which chiefly 60 to
constitute good editorial journal
ism, namely, honesty, fairness, per-
spicacaty, and common sense the
editorial page of the New York
World will average, day in and
day out. as high level of merit as
is reached by any other daily paper
Of general circulat on in New York
City"
The Wall Street Journal then
quotes the following from the
paper which the Standard Oil COM {
pany recently bought in New York: '
President Roosevelt wears the
smile of a vic or Another such
victory, however, as his admins
ration has won in the Northern
Securities suit. might prove his
political undoing. The judgment
If the court, the opinion is voiced
~ Justice Harlan, may strengthen Q
him with the agitators, the eX-
remists, the radicals. trust-hunters '
nd the trust-busters, the dema-
,ogues and all the disorderly ele- 0
nents Of society. Will not the de- a
ision, however, give the rejecting =
itizens of the country much food q
Or thought? To what end shall T
re come. if the tendency in recent a
ears of the efforts of legislators Y
nd the color of court decisions is "
. continue in the same direction y
hey have been taking? Is it not s
me for the conservative citizens Of r
9th parties to seriously consider :
neither new party of restraint 4
nd conservatism is not needed t. !.
revent the republic from drifting
Ito either ocisalism or mobocracy
r Caesarism ?"
Continuing its commentthe Jour
al says; eve print the foregoing
! order that our readers may
now how deep is the resentment
nd how great is the rage OF GER
in interests in Wall street against
resident Roosevelt for J aving en-
reed the law against the North
N Securities company. This
.ge seems to be now turning against
e supreme court itself. In char
y we suppress the name OF the
.wspaper from which we take -
e. words. "-Pocatello Tribune. =,
Millinery Opening.
On Saturday. March 26, Mrs. A.
clyer weather permitting will e