The San Francisco call., 1904-12-15
THE SPIRIT OF THE MESSAGE.

TIME enough has gone by enable consideration of the Pes
dents the light of the and criticism which
followed delivery The conclusion the message
epoch national history and the condition OF the
world The opportunities OF life and
developed wrought upon
necessary less guardianship gaining wealth
its use We have reached the parting of the was and the final test
of free institutions The abundance
cessar an extensive regulation Of the power which wealth can ex
ercise Human being what power will be oousy used
by its possessor, if the be unrestrained
Property has been accumulated here rapidly than else
generally country
wealth and its laws have perfectly protected the rights of
property The law represents the judgment OF society to what
shall be held The day being bere in which the law
regulate the power OF two schools OF thought are open at
the parting OF the ways Socialism IS there crying out for govern
ownership of all the acquisition distribution
for equal division OF the acquired wealth of the country Taking
advantage OF the economic principle that all only
in the Of society this school that the social
tecting it repealed.
No be remedy proposition
property, abog private ownership and bestoMing everything
upon everybody This remedy however that human
and enterprise and skill shall the incentive
personal acquisition SO the impossible and the impractical
BILE 1t the stagnaton Of society the rapid of energy
and the decline of effort minimum remedy the evils
OF which its future and by those who support it
politics Of which President Roosevelt leader exponent
AS such leader his written It's spirit arm that the
law has done well by promoting the and ownership of
er that the law has thereby Frankensten and
destroy its but that the function shall supple
ented by the egve function which shall place metes and
bounds around the OF and within them continue
promote its acquisition and enjoyment.
corporate that property the greatest power
Therefore regulation that form the necessity The Pres
high relief the the Department
commerce IN this connection 1t has not come to destroy but to
fulfill The law having created property for good purpose bne
hcial TO the citizen fulhlmen
out the good OF property by
The President leaves ground possible
opposition TO that taken by Socialism.
who Socialist stand with
die ground His message absolutely eliminates the
cratic party by absorbing it
The President has advanced political
line between the great sChOOlsOn side
democratic republic led by the President
its banner inscribed Property robbery No genuine eersonan
Democrat hesitates where he belongs place
the force which has through President political Cos
pei Of the epoch What the
ulate and discipline and destroy Men
politics OF the epoch their compelled
study finance The rolled like
British politics, that long Revolution no more The
sentimental politics that began John Quincy Adams
the right OF petition and ended the Civil more The
politics that followed that struggle gbber
We face to face with phase national life and
It has emerged have been our
pride and boast is the evolution of and
mans best opportunity joined.
The President declares whi from
cause for good purpose need be destroyed work
harm 1t part prove that free representative government
under universal suffrage deal with problems that its freedom
has caused with all laws have promoted
subordinate sovereignty by regulating
by destroying. The President the leader fall in!
The message wonderfully luminave of the political
ton 1t classifying document political chemistry
that discoes afnties puts his school, adv
eating government ownership of production and
the Socialists where they belong They tum-tummne
catgu under the national windows harm
less troubadours The Presidents message pocemans dark
them revealing porch climbers and
mnstrels
Roosevelt only disclosed new epoch new duties
dangers but he has done what has done before him
he has compelled and dictated the partisan alignment the future