The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-30
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up an issue upon which they ex-
pect TO regain control of the Ma
tional Government. Taking Presi-
dent Roosevelt's efforts to settle the
great Pennsylvania anthracite coal
strike as basic ingredient, adding
to it his prosecution of illegal com.
binations, mixing in the success he
has attained in the direction of con-
structing the Panama canal and
f1avoring it all with the general
service pension order, they look
upon the splendid compound and in
pop eyed amazement proclaim that
the man who is capable of such
things must be a Caesar, and, there.
fore, menace to the Republic.
Bourke Cochran, a New York mil
lionaire, is so terribly agitated over
the situation that night and day
his rest is broken, and not long
ago, trembling with fearful emo
ton, he rose in his place and, in
sonorous tones, shouted that if such
things were to be, the Congress of
the United States was put out of
business. Whereupon, the Democ-
racy became alarmed from center to
circumference.
1t may not be amiss to relate
few simple and we'll known facts of
history in connection with the
charges out of which a Democratic
issue is sprouted. When President
Roosevelt interfered in the coal
strike he did so in the interest of,
and out of sympathy for, working
men, not at the behest of monied
aristocracy. 1t will be recalled that
it was Divine-Rights Baer and men
OF his ilk who kicked and squirmed
when Theodore Roosevelt took up
the cause of the common people,
and Governor Odell of New York
virtually kicked a bunch of howl
ing, greedy capitalists out of his
office. 1t will also be recalled that
Mr.. Roosevelt plainly stated that as
President he had no authority to
interfere, but as an American citi-
zen, 1t was as much his business as
anybody else's to endeavor to put
an end to the awful condition of af-
fairs resulting from the strike. He
instinctively took the side of the
workingmen-the common people
backed by the best public
sentiment of his country, compelled
the aristocrats and patricians to
come to reasonable terms, and now
Democracy calls him q Caesar.
For twenty years the. American
people have dreamed of an inter-
ocean canal as a means of checking
the rapacity Of the great continental
but every step towards
the realization of that dream has
heretofore been met in congress by
a powerful lobby and overcome.
Millions of dollars were used by the
railroads to stay this mighty enter
prise, but finally the demands of
the people became so imperative
that congress dared not longer to
dlsobey. A law was enacted Civ
ing the President full authority to |
proceed to secure the construction
of the canal. In obedience to that
law and the sentiment of the
American people, he has secured a
complete transfer of the French
company's interests, and the inter-
ocean canal is become an assured
fact. For this, Democracy calls
him Caesar.
Some months ago J. P. Morgan,
jim Hill and other great combina-
tlonlsts and railroad autocrats con-
ceived a plan for putting under one
the great railroad systems
to the north. The purpose was to
kill competition to the end that the
people might be bled without stint.
The President looked into the mat
ter, and set in operation a Repubh-
can law which was designed to pre-
vent just such cal italistic conspira-
eies, and the great Northern Pacific
merger combination was smashed,
and for this Democracy calls Thee.