Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-09-15
THURSDAY, SEPT. IS. 1904.
R0OSEvELT'S LETTER
or ACCEPTANCE
Continued from Page one

examine the employees doing manual la
Dor III any great mandatory or on any
great railroad and find out how large i
the proportion Of men between the ages
DE eixty-fwo and seventy and whether
these men are still employed at the high
~ paid tasks which they did Iii their
prime. As q matter Of fact many rail-
roads pension their employees when they
have reached these ages. and In nationE
where ola age pensions prevail they al
ways begin somewhere between the two
yimlts thus set. nc III easy to test our op-
ponents' sincerity In this matter. The or
der IN question is revocable at the pleas
ura OF this executive. II our opponents
come into power they can revoke this orr
der and announce that they will treat the
veterans of slxty-two TO seventy ais pre-
gufnabIy III full bodily vfgor and not en-
titled TO pensions, WIN they now author
ktatively state that they intend to do
Hhis2 IL SO we accept the ISSUE IL not
then we have the right to ask why they
raise an issue which when raised they do
not venture to meet
In addition to those acts of the ad.
mInistration which they venture to as
anIl only after incorporating Them
there are others which they dare not
overly or officially attack. and yet which
they coverfIy bring forward as reasons
for the overthrow Of the party. In cer-
tain great centeFs and with certain great
interests our opponents make every eff
fort TO show that the settlement OF the
anthracite coal strike BY the Individual
net or the president and the successful
Ruik against the Northern Securities COM
pany--.the merger suit undertaken by the
department OF Justice, were acts because
Of which the present administration
should 20 thrown from power. Yet they
dare not openly condemn either act.
They dare not In any authoritative or
formal manner say that In either case
wrong WAS done or error committed In
the method OF action or IN the choice OF
instruments for putting that action into
effect. But what they dare not manfully
asseft In open day they seek 70 use FUR
lively and through special agents. II IL
perhaps natural that an attack SO cons
Quoted should be made sometimes on the
ground that too much. sometimes ON the
ground that too little, has been done.
Some 81 our opponents complain because
under the antitrust and interstate COM
mefee laws suits We're undertaken which
have been successful; others because
suits were not undertaken which would
have been unsuccessful. The Democrat
10 state convention Ia New York dealt
with the anthracite coal strike by de-
mandihgs In deliberate and formal FASH
lon that the national government should
take possession 81 the coal fields: vet
champions or that conventions cause
noW condemn the fact that there was
any action BY the president at ALL
though they must know that II was only
this action by the president which pre-
vented the movement for national owner
SNIP OF the coal feldS from gaining what
miaht we'll have been an irresistibles inn
netNs. Such mutually destructive crit
aclsns furnish an adequate measure Of
the chance for coherent action or con-
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