The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-06
R0oSEVELT'S SURRENDER.

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After all the beating of tom-tomS, the booming Of war
uun the paint and feathers and ouShing of tOmahaWkS,
the Roosevelt rate bill has reached its apogee the president
has announced his surrender to AdrCh and the Republican
senators have once achieved HARMONY at the expense
OF the common people,
The crux Of the whole rate question has been the fight
court review provision would block any effort at prompt
and decisive action contested rate cases, The Republican
senators have been the side OF delay court proceedings;
the Democrats while Concedng the necessity of court re-
views TO make the act constitutional have insisted law
@ TGpa pSa9 to sce 3 Oes 0P By by u a
ting his political and personal enemy man, in charge of the
Dill while the Democrats furnished the votes that took the bill
out OF committee and brought before the senate In word
the OemoCraC senator's having made action on the bill pos
Soe tnd themselves betrayed by the president who has
gone over to AdCh, body soul and beecheS swallowing Al
dChS atronB and pretending to be satisfied with AdrichS
NaiVey enough, the Washington correspondents have
been advised personally by Roosevelt that the compromise
b engineered by GumShOe Allison Of Iowa and ndorSed by
TO gnomnous captivity bound hand and foot by an arrogant
Cabal OF Republican senator's Roosevelt smiles and SmkS
bows to the audience and declares his baVeS tone that he
has met the enemy and conquered
In recent years there has been no such abect puSiai
NOUS aoandonment OF strong position as Roosevelt has
made in this particular He has clustered BEFORE an
nounCed his programme and swallowed defeat CheeuIy
number Of instances His Philippine tariff bill which was to be
mngo treaty was consigned to the waste basket after the
senate had MADE scrap paper Of it, his prosecution of the beef
trust begun with such flourish resolved itself into howl
ing farce his effort to force joint statehood upon New Mexico
and Arizona ended in disastrous failure All of his promises
Ul Dl9 lSS nave gone 10 protest. ana SUI Inc country be-
eved he really meant to do something in the rate bill because
there was genuine demand for good measure and the pub
nc was behind him regardless OF politics.
In spite OF his backing, in spite OF the nOn-DartSan as
peC his effort assumed when the Democrats rallied to his
support he could not bear to any depend upon
enoCrac votes and accepted what the Republicans led by
AdrCh were willing to give him rather than take better
measure by the help of the Democracy
Eyen So ROoSeVeltS partisan weakness might be for
gwen he were honest with the country II he said frankly
that he had taken compromise measure emaSCuIaed
WeaNng, at his own paryS hands to his face,
might understand him. But he hasn't even the grace to
Ced6 his own weakness and DetendS he is getting exactly the
thing he wants Looking over his promises and his perform
anCeS tor the past year his friends must be sick his enemies
OF his own party ubant and his Democratic supporters dis
9USGd II any president ever furnished false alarm of
greatness he is it with his blatant COCkSureneSS of ud9
men at the start and Dfu deficiency of achievement at the
finish,
CharaceriSticaIy the administration has attempted 10
divert attention from its surrender to AdrCh and his COtere
by publishing long arrangement OF the Standard Oil company
and the New York Central railroad on the same day the
nounCement OF the surrender is made Any who has
watched RooSeVe$ press agency knows that this is not
mere COnCdenCe-t is done deSgnedy Just how the new
est crusade is viewed may be Judged by the Standard Oils de-
rSVe reply year ago even that defiant monopoly would
have heStated to aSSai Roosevelt openly now grows Sar
castle in it's reference to him and his young Mr., Garfield, It
evidently has little tear Of him with all his power, with his
Gepatme3t OF labor and department of justice,
No need to ask why, Haven't they seen the beef trust
literally make monkey Of Garfield and the attorney general
OF the United States? Haven't they seen Roosevelt epud-
ate such great lawyers as JUdSOn and Harmon for daring
to recommend prosecution Of Paul Morton for rebating?
Does anybody suppose that the aSute Standard Oil and its
counsel need help when they going against oV-fuShp
prosecution by this administration? Hardly The men who
have thOtted justice, de0aUched legislatures bought the
courts OF twenty states and COrraGd the railroads of the