Evening journal., 1904-03-26
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MR. PYLE.


About a year ago, for instance, the adj
ministration strongly advocated that
Congress should limit the power of trusts
and of merged corporations In this it
was bitterly opposed by the great cor
porate interests whose influence it was
intended to curtail Since then twelve
month has passed and in that twelve
month many of those very corporations
and trusts have burst like bubbles. in
volving in their own ruin grave financial
losses to a large and conservative class
of small investors.
The financial world has not yet for
given the President for his then atti-
tude; but, to those workingmen who
look for sound investments for their
earnings, it appears that the eNecutive
was right in his estimation of the dam
ger threatening from such great inflated
amalgamations, for those dangers have
already materialized and have involved
many citizens in severe and widespread
losses. To the plain workingman, who
does not go too closely into the subtilities
of abstract argument, but who views the
broad results that happen in the world
it appears that the President was wise'
III thAtANNllll- ~ lilllll tloot udNEtiot
and prescient in seeing that q catastro1
phe was likely to occur from them.
Again the nation demanded the conf
struction of a waterway from ocean I'd
ocean across the Isthmus of Panama
Indeed the realization of this project be
longed not only to our nation; not only
to the world at large. but to the entirs
civilization of the twentieth century,
This great undertaking was held up bi
a small South American Republic, appar
emily from purely mercenary and inter
ested motives. In the face of this petit
opposition it seemed necessary either I
abandon the project or else to pa
/ through the nose for the rights of build
/ ing the canal, or else to 60 to war wit
a small and insignificant people to obtai
by force the right to build. It was
very difficult problem to solve, and it dd|
manded an immediate solution. An u1
expected opportunity offered for oscar
from this dilemma, and the administri
ton seized upon it with an astonishir
quickness and an amazing success.
this the President was accused by h
enemies not only of precipitancy, but
tyrannical and arbitrary use of his gre;
power against a feeble people. He w;
likened to a man running into powd
magazine with a lighted match, or to {
athlete robbing a crippled dwarf; az
Colombia was the subject Of much sent
mental sympathy. To us, however, WI
have the products of the world to ma
and who are very busy in seeing tn
thev are made-to us who have practio
results and not theories to achieve
us It appears that the administrati
surmounted a very grave difficulty in
simplest, easiest and most peaceful ma
ner.
I repeat that we workers always wei
results rather than precedents. In {
case we inquire whether it is prefera
that the worlds work should be done,
that. from purely sentimental .reaso
the boundless greed 70 a South Amerio
pseudo-republic should be satisfied,
to us it seems that the President ac
in this instance also very wisely
very WELL
These are but two examples of ma
which might be cited that, together,
TO make up the sum total Of the res
i that this administration has achieN
4 We find that our country is more ,
and more prosperous than 1t has G
been before; that it is more potentia
j the dietation of human destinies thar e
has ever been: that it is more respec
bv foreign powers than it ever was
+ fore respected, and we see that this
happened under Theodore Roosevelts
:. ministration. As this great and s
nrosperitv has come about under
= administration, we lend our hearty Il
: mort to it, and we intend to see to it
y Theodore Roosevelt shall succeed him
u as President of the United States
+ four years more. Howard Pyl