The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-06
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Results of Roosevelt's Policy.


Roosevelt has taken against the trusts
through his attorneys general, Messrs
Knox and Moody Is already beginning
TO show fruit The paper trust ana
the Northern Securities trust nave
been dissolved. The mere prosecution
and indictment of the Sugar trust, OF
the Standard Oil trust, and OF the
Tobacco trust, have led to changes
in the methods of those ORGANIZATIONS,
and to an abandonment of some OF the
more glaring determinations in rates
and prices which were the instfu-
mentalities for preserving monopoly
even before conviction has been ef
fected or final Judgment pronounced
against them. The fear of the law mas
been put into the hearts OF the mem
bers of these great corporations, ano
this has been due chiefly to the couI'
age, the determination and the i'll
tense interest Of Theodore Roosevelt
in the securing of adequate Legislation
and its vigorous executive enforce
ment
The Issue Of the Present Campaign
We are nearly half way through the
second. administration of Mr. Roose'
welt. The question before the people
of this country is whether, hayinS
elected Mr.. Roosevelt, by an over
whelming majority, to continue as the
chief executive for another term. and
having made him and his party re-
sponsible for the national pollcles
adopted. both in legislative and in
executive matters. they shall now, by
electing a Democratic congress, eS'
press disapproval of his past course
and a want of confidence in his future
action. The campaign involves no,
only the award of merit or disapproYai
for things done. 1t involves the ques-
ton whether the great work when
| Mr.. Roosevelt. as the leader OF his
party, aud with the support OF his
party has entered upon and carried
far enough to indicate the possibility
Of successful accomplishment. shan
now be seriously hampered, and IN
| measure defeated, by returning as
one of the coordinate branches OF tue
national legislature body anxious
for partisan reasons to embarrass MIN
and his administration.
Mr.. RooseveIt's Policy.
Mr.. Rooseyelt's policy is to secure
by national legislative and executive
action. within the somewhat narrow
range of federal jurisdiction over In
terstate commerce, effective control
of those who manage and operate or
ganized capital, so a. to prevent them
| by the misuse Of the powerful instru-
mentalities that organization OF CAPT
al affords, from unlawfully suppress
sing competition. establishing monopo-
| lies and thereby making impossible
! the benefit from such organization OF
capital of reduction of prices and
| increase of conveniences which other
wise would and ought to inure to the
/ public.
with respect TO this general poilc:
which has been carried forward by
Mr.. Roosevelt and the Republics
party to point where a successful
| issue is reasonably assured If a con
sistent course of legislative and execu
! tive action is permitted. the Demo
cratic party asserts that it is the
original patentee and that Mr. Roose
Welt and the Republican party have
merely infringed their patent rights.
! The unfounded character of this claim
OF exclusive ownership by the Demo
cratic party in Mr., Roo evclts policy
/ I shall not stop to discuss. i he Demo
cratic leaders who understand the
hold M Roosevelt has upon the
lyoters of the country would have
them believe that a Democratic ma
iority in the house of repre- entati'c
will sympathize SO much with Mr.
! Roo-evelt's policy in regard To trust
aid railroad rate discrimination, ant
will So second his efforts that II realt1
is not important in furthering thi'
nolicv - elect a Republican house
Bur nothing can be further from tn
D fact
Il has been suggested al times, as !
Z iit we're ground for citicising tn
+ Republican party and the congressmei
\ who now 90 back 10 their constltu
4 ents for a judgment upon their COURSE
that they propose to make Mr.. Roost
welt the issue In this campaign be
cause he Is the issue; not in what b
has said. but In what he has don
and what the party has upheld hir
in doing. The Republican majorit
/ in the house and senate have loyal
accepted Mr. Roosevelt's Leadership
p have approved his recommendation
and have stood by him in formulatin
into legislation that which should er
able him TO carry out his policy.
{ wonderful then that the Republica
party asks. and the Republican men
bcrs of the house of representative
ask that the electors Of the countr
in determining whether a Republica
OF Democratic majority shall apes
IN the next house Of representative
shall make their decision turn on n
/. iuuestion. DO We approve the cour.
7. Ut Theodore Roosevelt as President
W tho United Ctatpg or do We diEapDrOi