Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-23
Thinks He VIII Consent to Run Again.
lannon's Lterr,iequ With President Roosevelt Who
is Straightforward and Expresses Salts
faction With HIS Work.

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for the rights of others. This being
his sincere conviction lie will not be
with Il mere academic pre-
Of the evils Of the plutoc-
racy situation in America, but will
present in his next message TO con-
gress
Practical Legislation
TO correct the evils of these gigantic
and rapidly swelling fortunes.
ssThe period is. not very far away
when three or four men may own out
right the surface industries of the
United States.
1T is TO avoid this possibility
that President ROose Welt will re-
commend TO congress such an in
heritance tax as shall pre- vent such
accommodations. notably the cas-
OF Marshall Fields trust. which
In fifty years will total up to tive
billions OF dollars.
John D. Rockefeller may leave a
similar trust
IAN inheritance tax is now imposed
in other countries, and the president
has based his recommendations on
systems already established in France
and Great Britain.
mfr. Roosevelt believes in federal
regulation and in this subject pro-
poses TO carry out his legislation in
the same forcefuI manner hat he
employed in lighting through the
railway rate bills. If he is successful
in fighting the ~pluUocrats, Mr. Roose-
velt will take away the weapons of
MERE AGTTATORS,
like Hearst, who seek to create a
class war and are reckless of revOlu-
ton and of the blood which might
flow from the successful carrying IL
OF their policy of denunciation and
despair.
II asked about the negro question
This is a matter he does not think
can be disposed of in an 9f-land
summary I could Sse it has
not commanded his immediate atEen-
uion. His great ambition IS Ehe sue
cessful completion Of the Panama
canal. To this he gives more time
than any other subject"
Mr.. Crawford then details aminuta
description of the president methods
and ideas for the construction of the
canal. Dealing with the possibility
of a mar being nominated for office
without being a candidate for IT, Mr.
Crawford writes.
E was d. 5iEsee close 9f nv sgs
| ton that I yennarei 20 say
. suppose rlsreis another IrH@
tion that I haven : 4 rsgtlr "a lzs
"He said Verv pruEnuEIv
T know what xasI rgzFL AsE IL
~The snsEver IA HIS vtaicsl { caa-
net put IN dHarLEi0n marks vsEs
wsafaIEv in harmony with the 1Fest
denrrs narflairsw a-xs1rFsseef anFrrinrzs@
MAY Rim lAsH4FH.
II inferred. sfrAnuE are sard from
the PRESIDENT On THE 4aI1te4sr EtIaI
this vignrals. higfliE trimmed urHss-
dent, with z equipment far mis-
office. with his graaE practical zTIavs-
ledge OF the best meEE1Gsis u be esu-
ployed for correcting Eilta evils which
today oversiladow american p8iir tes.
will continue % be popular % even
a greater degree than he IS now 1rIfi
that the man who thoroughly enjoys
being president OF the United staIes,
h captain Of high ideals and IN
original dominating force in this
strenuous weird OF astonishing pros
perity and calamitous prosperity, viii
not refuse a unanimous nomination.
+ If it should come to him from the re-
publican national convention.
Dealing with the general conditions
of the country. Mr. Crawford MAIN
tains that, underlying the great sur
face prosperity Of the United States
there exists a base of
Discomfort AND DIssATIsFAGrEoN,
which must have a great and possible
controlling influence upon its poli1i
cal future. Skilled lahor, he says, is
disappearing in the face OF machinery
Hence the American motor ear. each
part of which is made by machinery
cannot compete with foreign cars
which combine hand and machine
construction. He deplores the lack
Of federal legislation controlling The
employment of children, and say.
that more than a million are workins
in America, who would not under th.
English age law, be permitted t.
work at all.
yThis is particularly true in Thu
South he adds, where such worE
ID producing a stunted inferior popu
lation In the laboring Glass;
Summing up an analysis that is
better Informed and more brilliantly
written than anything that has ap
peared In recent years, Mr. CRAWFORD
says.
THE United States is approaching
a period OF regeneration and chang,
which presents a situation almost a.
grave as the Civil war The over
shadowing influence Of wealth, TIL,
growth of colossal fortunes and tn,
abuse OF these fortunes by the cap
tafns OF industry have further intens
ified the public agitation and tn,
under current OF sentiment"
While Mr.. Crawford expressl,
efafoS that 10 1cox unr c.,ofa RI.