Evening star., 1906-09-06
Practical Results Of Policy.

The vigorous action which Mr. Roosevelt
has taken against trusts, through his Attor-
neys General, Messrs. Knox and Moody, is
already beginning to show fruit. The pa
per trust and the Northern Securities trust
have 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 1nstru-
mentalities for preserving monopoly, even
before conviction has been enected or maj
judgment pronounced against them. The
fear Of the law has been put into the hearts
of the members of these great corporations,
and this has. been due chiefly to the cour-
age, the determination and the intense IN
terest of Theodore Roosevelt In the secur-
ing of adequate legislation and Its vigorous
executive enforcement.
Issue Of the Present Campaign.
We are nearly half way through the Sec
ond administration Of Mr. Roosevelt The
question before the people of this country Is
whether. having elected Mr.. Roosevelt by
an overwhelming majority to continue as
the chief executive for another term, and
having made Inn and his party RESPONSE
BILE for the national policies adopted, both
in legislative and in executive matters, they
shall now, by electing democratic Con-
8IcSS, cApISSS uiStppIOtdI VI NlS poSS
course and want of confidence in HIS fu-
ture action. The campaign involves not
only the award of merit or disapproval for
things done. 1t involves the question
whether the great work which Mr.. Roose-
welt, as the leader of his party, and with
the support Of his party, has entered upon
and carried far enough to indicate the pos
sibility OF successful accomplishment, shall
now be seriously hampered, and in meas
ure defeated. by returning, one of the
coordinate branches of the national legis-
lature, body anxious for partisan reasons
to embarrass him and his administration
Mr.. Roosevelt is the Issue.
1t has been suggested at times. as If 1t
were a ground for criticising the republic
can party and the representatives who now
go back to their constituents for 5udg-
ment upon their course, that they propose
to make Mr.. Roosevelt the issue in this
campaign. They do propose to make Mr..
Roosevelt the issue in this campaign, be-
cause he is the issue; not in what he has
said, but in what he has done and what
the party has upheld him in doing. The
republican majority in the House and Sen
ate have loyalty accepted Mr.. Roosevelts
leadership, have approved his recommen-
dations, and have stood by him In formu-
lating into legislation that which should
enable him to carry out his policy. Is 1t
wonderful then that the republican party
asks, and the republican members Of the
House OF Representatives ask, that the
electors OF the country in determining
whether a republican or democratic ma
Representatives shall make their decision
turn on the question. do we approve the
course of Theodore Roosevelt as President
of the United States. or do we disapprove
it?"
Favors Revision.
Speaking my individual opinion and for
no one else, believe that since the passage
Of the Dingley bill there has been change
In the business conditions Of the country.
making 1t wise and Just to revise the sched-
ules of the existing tariff. The sentiment
In favor Of a revision Of the tariff is grow
ing in the republican party, and in the near
future the members Of the party will doubt
less be able to agree on a reasonable plan.
Mr.. Littleield, together with Mr. Cannon
and some other congressman, have in
CURED the pronounced political opposition
Of the American Federation of Labor and
Of Mr.. Gompers because in the discharge
of their congressional duties they have op-
posed the passage Of a bill which is very
can Federation of Labor. 1 venture to ask
your attention to the issues which are
thus raised.
The first section Of the bill in effect de-
nies to- any person engaged in business the
right to- injunction against those who
propose unlawfully to injure his business
in labor disputes. Mr.. Gompers and the
supporters of this bill contend that an in
junction cannot properly issue in any
such case of threatened injury because the
business rights about to be unlawfully in
Jured are not property rights and an in
junction can only issue to protect property
rights. They say that the inferior federal
courts by issuing injunctions In such cases
have usurped powers not given them, and
that this section merely limits their juris-
diction as It was limited before the usurpa-
of he I1r,tt
States, in ap opinion concurred in by all
the members of the court, has decided that
an injunction may Issue against an unlaw-
full interference with property rights or
rights Of a pecuniary nature, whenever a
suit and judgment for damages after the
commission of the injury and unlawful
acts would not be an adequate remedy for
the injured party. A judgment for damages
in such cases and under such circum-
stances would certainly not be an adequate
remedy, and the supporters of the bill be-
fore the congressional committee did not
contend that it would be.
The Presidents Sympathy With Labor
No President has shown greater interest
in the workingman, a greater concern for
the enactment of measures which shall bet
ter their condition, greater sympathy in
their organizations, and with, their aspira-
tions, than Mr.. Roosevelt. In saying this
I am only repeating the statements made
fore committees of Congress. He has
labor union to be a member Of the
highly important interstate commerce
commission. 1t is idle, In view of his just
and impartial attitude toward both capital
and labor to charge that his view of Mr..
Gompers bill is due to prejudice against
the laboring classes, especially when the
bill is not supported by other bodies or or
ganized labor.
Mr.. LittIefe1d's Courage.
The political power of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor every one recognizes, and
1t would be much easier for Mr.. Littlefield,
If he sought only political preferment, to
yield to the request and vote for the re-
porting of Mr.. Gompers' bill and its passage
and to avoid the controversy which he has
now brought on by expressing HIS honest
opinion: but /. venture to think that his
constituents in Maine. If anything can be
judged from their past history, admire cour-
age more than they do trimming. and well
come in their representative an evidence
of courage when its exhibition costs.
The Presidents Remedy.