Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-23
How the Presidents Message 10
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constitutes a menace to railroad Sc
curities."
The Tariff.-The references in the
message to the tariff are exceedingly
disappointing to the reformers and
reciprocity leaders, who were all ex-
pecting some encouragement. The In
dianapolis Star (Rep.) declares that
his perfunctory words on this import
ant subject have offended "many per-
sons who earnestly and honestly be-
lieve that the Dingley schedules are a
clog upon industry and menace to
public morals" and the Columbia
State (Dem.) says, ''if we may say it
of this bold frank, and direct
man." his only utterances on the reve-
nues are brief, indefinite, and wab-
bling" The Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal (Dem.) remarks that "he has lit
tie to say regarding the tariff, and
that little is more ambiguous than is
his won't" But, says the Florida
Times-Union Dem), "the eloquent
silence as to the tariff has also come
to be expected. There was time
when the president was expected to
advocate needed reforms in this line
but that time has passed" In fact
the language used by the president,
"smacks" as the Charlotte Observer
(Dem.) declares, "of the stand-patter
phraseology." So papers like the
Brooklyn Standard Union (Rep.) and
the Nashville American (Dem.) blunt
ly charge him with being stand
patter," while the Newark News
Qnd.) says "That so positive tenn
permanent can dismiss it (the tariff
with score or so of words &.
betrays an unwonted disposition to
grasp a nettle in the clenched fist
and suggests little of a tacit
bargain with the opposition to rate
legislation"
Friendly critics, however, assert
that there is neither obscurity nor
lack of courage in the words used by
the president in discussing the tariff
question. when Mr.. Roosevelt ap-
proaches the movement for tariff re-
VISION" says the New York Evening
Mail (Rep). ''he adopts the language
of the judge rather than the advo-
cate" The Savannah News Dem.)
observes that altho "the tariff ques-
tin is lightly touched upon, it
is plain to see that the president
thinks that reforms are needed" and
the Buffalo Express (Rep.) points out
that she shows an inclination toward
reciprocity, by urging closer relations
with other people on this continent"
The Philadelphia North American
(Rep) also finds "a suggestion that
congress shall consider If circum-
stances in the future are not likely
to make it to our interest to intro
duce a system of maximum and mini
mum duties which may be employed
to obtain favors from governments
which have that system in operation"
The Buffalo News (Rep.) thinks that
even if President Roosevelt is inten-
tionally obscure in expressing his sen.
timents on the tariff question, he has
ample excuse for his course in view
of the fact that he has about as much
business on his hands as he can well
take care of. Says The News:
"The expected, therefore, has hap
pened; Mr.. Roosevelt is going to make
no fight on the tariff. This will doubt
less excite a good deal of sarcastic
criticism in some quarters; but we
have never been able to see upon
what principle a president was to be
expected to fight two fights at once,
when one is quite big enough to en-