The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-03

has this to say:
The present congress enacted rail
road law, amending the act of 1887. II
would have been law had the Repub-
licans been so disposed years ago.
SO controlled by the railroads were
many of the Republican senators that
this bill could not have passed this
(Fffty-ninth) congress without unani-
nous action of the Democrats and the
presidents big stick which drove and
kept enough Republican senators in
line to pass it.
President Broke Faith.
AT very acute stage of the contest
the president found it necessary to re-
quest a conference with leading Demo-
cratic senator's. They gladly conferred
with him, and the papers made great
note of this unusual act His position
at that time was that which for years
the Democrats had occupied, but he
was forced by the opposition in his
own party TO move ground and 10
break faith with this Democratic con-
ference by consenting to the broad
court review.
In this way the present law-the
very best that the people could get
from the Republican congress-was
passed.
IF the Republican senate had done
half it's duty there could have been a
railroad bill passed into law long be-
fore 1887
Attention next is called to the extrav-
agant appropriations of the Fifty-ninth
congress and, i'm connection Herewith,
reference is made to the creation of
deficiencies in violation of law
Department Scandals.
Under the head of Department
Scandals Secretary Shaw is charged
with "neglecting the duties of his Of
flee, travelling about the country max
ing speeches for the stand patters and
carrying on a campaign for the presi-
Dental nomination in 1908. but still
drawing a salary which he does not
earn and setting a bad example for his
The comptroller of the currency is
declared to be inefficient by reason of
the failure Of the Walsh. Enterprise
and other banks. 1t is declared that
the little rogues are prosecuted, but the
big ones are allowed to escape"
Organized Labor.
With the relation to their attitude
toward organized labor, the book as
serts that the Democrats were the first
to give it recognition. It's position is
summarized as follows:
1T is safe to say there has not been
a statute enacted by congress for the
relief Of the workingmen of the United
States or organized labor, that the
Democrats have not given their hearty
support"
Taking up President Roosevelt's no
sition on the question, il is declared
that ''he is hostile to the labor element,
he has expressed it in his book. in his
official utterances and by his acts"
1t is stated that he regards repre-
sentatives of labor unions as members
fellows, bulls of Bashan," ''lazy,
selfish, brutal, violent, murderous," "a
mob"
Roosevelt WobbIes.
Returning to the subject of the tariff.
the book asserts that President Roose-
welt at various times in his career has
been free trader, a tariff reformer
and stand-patter, and that he may
lead movement for tariff revision in
1905" and then it has this to say:
MIR. Roosevelt has written nothing
and unequivocally stating his
position since he withdrew from the
Free Trade club, but it has been given
out at Oyster Bay this summer that he
is fully in accord with the views of
Speaker Cannon and Mr. Sherman.
which have been summarized in the
language of gamblers and beggars,
Stand pat and pass the hat"
The "Big Stick"
Under the caption, the motive be-
hind the big stick,''' it is charged that
President Roosevelt favors big corpora
lions in Porto Rico and the Philippines
and that he would make laws advan-
tageous for them; that he wants a big
and naval force, to include
subsidized merchant marine, and that
he has perverted the Monroe doctrine
in the interest of the asphalt trust in
1t is said that not unless
he found the necessity to win Demo-
cratic support for his policy OF imper-
ialism did he ever say a word in praise
of any Democratic statesman or Dem |
ocratic achievement. Quotations follow
from some Of the presidents book re-
ferring in alleged uncomplimentary
terms to Jefferson, Madison, Benton
and others.
These libelous and scandalous saw
ings," it is declared, reflect the true
spirit of Theodore Roosevelt What he
now says is said only to win approval
for the big stick policy, by insinuat-
ing that such a policy was really in |
augurated by Jefferson and Monroe and
not by the American corporations
which he is serving, and which he seeks
to enthrone in the Philippines, Porto
Rico, Cuba and Santo Domingo Even
when he tells the truth he does so In
order to disguise an evil purpose or to
justify by precedent the wicked policy.
Surely no one who values sincerity Will
be influenced by the utterances of Mr.. |
Roosevelt"
Violates the Law.
The charge is then made that "the
president favors certain railroads and
gifts from them-violated the
interstate commerce law; demands and
receives money in favored banks with
out interest. diverts funds appropriated
for one purpose to another; allows pub
lie money to pay for literary bureau
to boom his policy.
Mr.. Roosevelt has shown greater re-
gard for the interests of corpora tfons
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