Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-08-20
He Declares COuntry's PhenOm-
email Prosperity Not Lightly
To be JeOpardized.
MIGHT CHANGE SCHEDULES.
Question Of Revision Stands Wholly
Apart from that OF Dealing
With the Trusts.

! new lulht aug IA reuter- written
by President Roosevelt 10 Congressman
James +. Watson Of Rushyille, Ind,
reviewing and approving Of the work
OF the present Congress and declaring
TO change the leadership and organiza-
ton OF the house al this time means TO
bring confusion upon those who have
successfully engaged in the steady
working out Of a great and comprehen-
sive scheme for the bottorment OF our
civil and social conditions was made
public today through the Republican
congressional committee. The president
also declared that such change would
result in hurtful oscillation between
the extreme radical and the extreme re-
dictionary. The president also said hs
hopes the present congress win enact
laws prohibiting political contributions
by corporations. lowering the duties on
Imports from the Philippines and linz
iting the number Of hours for railway
employees.
OF the tariff Mr.. Roosevelt says.
I'VE stand unequiyoCally for a pro-
tectiye tariff and We feel that the phe-
nomenal Industrial Prosperity which
We are nov enjoying is not lightly 10
be ieopardized for II would be 10 the
last degree foolish 20 secure here and
there a small benefit az the cost Of gem
eral business depression. But whenever
given rate or schedule becomes eyi-
denuy disadyantageous to the nation,
because OF the changes which 10 OF
IRON year To year. IN our conditions.
ana where u Is feasible 20 change this
rate or schedule without too much dis
location Of the system. II VIII be done.
while 2 general revision ~ the rate,
ana schedules viii be undertaken when
ever II snail appear 10 the sober BUSH
ness sense or our people, that on tho
whole the benefits to be derived from
making such changes viii outweigh the
disadvantages. that is. when the reyi.
sion VIII do more good than harm. Let
me add one word OF caution. hover
The question Of revising the tariff
stands wholly apart from the oues-
ton of dealing with the so-called
'trusis'-that is. with the control Of
inonopolies and with the supervision
OF great wealth I'm business especially
In corporate form. The only way I'm
which u Is possible 10 deal with those
trusts and monopolies and this great
corporate wealth is by action along the
Inc Of the laws enacted by the present
congress and It's Immediate predeees-
sofs' The cry tha' tho problem can be
met by any changes IN the tarin rep
resents. whether consciously or uncon-
sciously, an effort 90 divert the public
attention from the only method OF TAX
ing effective action"
Mr. Roosevelt says that ~ only par-
iisan issues were involved I'm this con-
lest he should hesitate 10 say any.
thing publicly IN reference To n. hut
he does not feel that this Is the case
The president declares that with MIR
Cannon as speaker the house has 3r-
complished a literally phenomenal
amount of good work. II has shown
n courage, good sense and patriotism
such that II would be 4 real and serious
misfortune for the country not 10 rec
ognlze"
Mr. Roosevelt then enters ON a re-
view OF the work OF the Congress and |
the important measures passed hv A.
measures which, he says. are more than
important IN any partisan sense be-
cause they suhserve the welfare Of the
whole people.
lie gives credit 10 Congress I'm the |
matter Of the Panama canal. saving.
The interests banded together N
oppose the canal are numerous and |
bitter, and most ~ them with a pecul- |
larly sinister basis for their opposition.
Had Congress been either timd or cor. |
rupt and had not the leaders Of Com !
eress shown the most farsighted reso- |
luton I'm the matter. the work OF build |
ing the canal would never have been I
begun, or II begun, would now have |
halted"
Strong approval Is expressed Of the |
attitude % Congress toward the up- |
building " the navy and then the pres |
ident takes up the measures dealing
with government regulation of busl- /
ness
The tremendous social and Industrial |
changes In our nation he saws. have I
rendered evident the need of a larger /
exercise by the national government OF |
It's power 10 deal with the business use |
of wealth, and especially ~ corporate /
wealth, IN interstate business. II (,
not too much to say that the course of !
Congress within the last few years and 1
the hearty agreement between the ex-
ecutive and legislative departments Of
the nation In taking the needed action
each within It's sphere. have resulted |
IN the nation for the first time definite
~ entering upon the career Of proper
performance Of duty In these matters
II is very easy thing 90 play the
demagogue In this matter. 10 confne
ones self merely 20 denounelng the
evils az wealth and 90 advocate often
In vague language. measures 80 sween-
ing that While they would entirely IAN |
10 correct the evils aimed At, they un-
dOubtedly succeed I'm bringing down
the prosperity u the nation with a
crash. But u IL not easy 10 do. as the
present Congress and the immediate
predecessors have done: that is
sternly 10 disregard alike the self IN.
terest o. those who have prontef bv
the present evils and the Wild clamor
OF those who care less 90 do away
with them than 20 make "a reputation
With the unthinking 81 standing in ex-
IRENE opposition TO them Hut this h
precisely what the present Congress
has done. The previous Congress hy
the enactment OF the Elklns law ana
by the creation o. the department of
commerce and labor. including the
bureau % corporations had enabled ms
to make great strides IN advance along
the path o. thus bringing the use N
wealth IN business under the super. !
vision and regulation ~ the national
government-for In actual practice Il
has proved sham and pretense % say
that the several states can thus sun.
ervise and regulate H."
President Roosevelt reviews ana an.
proves the measures taken 10 SCENE
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