The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-05

me feuernl system TO solution OF
Modern Problems -A~nti-JspaDese Feel
ting . General symptom Ia nchinE.
Special Cable Despatch 10 TIE sun.
LONDON, Dec. 5.-The dominant note Of
a majority of the editorials on tee message
Of President Roosevelt is recognition Of
the n Of the i'm ense conflicting
forces which Itax the Government Of the
United States at the present day. The
struggle between capital and labor, SIN
bodied for the moment in the trust problem,
and race a~ntagonism as visualized by the
ant-Japaneseism in the West and anti
negroism in the South, are the features
which attract the greatest notice here.
The Radical Ddiy NeHs. heading its edi-
torial Reform or Revolution?" says the
message is a remarkable sign Of the times.
Never in any recent period. it says, were
events so msnifestly hurrying men into
fresh courses, the end of which no man can
foresee. In all Aryan nations industrial
revolution lie hesping up wealth into great
Accommodations. EspItal IN labor are or
ganizing into hostile corporations. Mill
tarv preparations challenge a fierce longing
for peace and International smity.
Wide discomfort tortures the obscure
millions at the basis Of society. America
here confronts the same menace az Europe.
The President appears to-day as wrestling
with forces which he can comprehend
but cannot control. Mr.. Roosevelt dag
noses the situation with a most startling
clasrness. In agile phrases he attempts
steer between revolt against the insolence
% wealth and fear Of anarchy and social
ism"
Reviewing what il particularly describes
as rho Presidents campaign against multi
m~illiOnaires, the Nens says il IL indicative
~ recognition of a condition OF unstable
equilibrium. All the world. il says, recog-
Mics the same condition. and all the world
H. seeking after the cure. That problem
ard it, remedy il going to provide for both
Europe and America the keynote Of politics
!" the twentieth century.
The Conservative S'onddrd saws:
Moderate as are the President aims.
they involve changes which to many of his
fellow citizens will seem almost revolu-
rionary." Discussing the conflict twe
the Federal and Stat" Governments in
reference to education. taxation. marriage
laws. control of trllsts and race antagonisn.
II saws that far sighted observers have long
seen that the United States has outgrown its
cradle and is face la face with insist ent
modern problems.
II moves uneaally under the letters If
federalism laid upon il at its birth in defer
encF 10 the historical necessities Of the
moment. yet tho conservative sentiment
Of rho most conservative people on earth
clusters round the Constitution and the
doctrine ~ State rights, and il the economic
and social reforms that Mr.. Roosevelt
desires DEF end upon a drastic reconstr C.
ton ~ m" political system. the prospect
Of their realization appears somewhat
remote. .
The Literal Tribune. speaking Of anti
JapaueSeism. says: If Mr.. Roosevelt were
t" attempt to carry out all the threats con-
tanned in his message he might raise a
grave isslle. The worst of this crisis il
that it il but a symptom Of the general
nneasiness which the growth of Japanese
influence is begetting in all white COM
mnnities within their sphere Of expansion, "
The Telegraph also dwell= on the great
difficulty in which the Federal Administra-
ton is PLACED in attempting to force in
diNidual States 10 observe the nations
treaty obligations. II saws il remains 20
be seen bow the Pacific States will take
the plainly expressed intention of the Presi-
dent to override the cherished preiudices
If Congress will forge the weapon for him