The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-23
WANTS NO CHANGE.
President Roosevelt Thinks Congress
Has Accomplished Great Work.

President Roosevelt sounds the
keynote and defines the issues of the
coming congressional campaign in a
letter to Congressman James E. Wat
son, of Nashville, Ind. The letter is
as follows:
Il hear through Speaker Cannon
and Representatives Sherman that
you have volunteered to give your
services to the congressional commit
tee for the entire campaign without
regard to the effect it may have upon
your canvass in your district, and /
feel like writing you word of con-
graduation and of earnest hope for
the success of your efforts If there
were only partisan issues involved in
this contest / should hesitate to say
anything publicly in reference there
to- But l do not feel such is the
case On the contrary, feel all good
citizens who have the welfare Of
America at heart should appreciate
the immense amunt that has been
accomplished by the present congress
organized as it is, and the urgent
need of keeping this organization in
power. With Cannon as speaker, the
house has accomplished literally
phenomenal amount of work. 1t has
shown a courage, good sense, patriot
ism, such that it would be a real and
serious misfortune for the country
to fail to recognize. To change the
leadership and organization of the
house at this time means to bring
confusion upon those who have been
successfully engaged in the steady
wmorking out of great and compre
hensive scheme for the betterment OF
our social, industrial aud civic con-
ditions. Such a change would sub
stjtutc purposeless confusion, a vio-
lent and hurtful oscillation between
the positions of the extreme radical
and the extreme reactionary, for the
present orderly progress along the
lines of carefully thought out pol
icy.
Congress must take account, not
of one national need, but of many and
widely different national needs; and
speak with historic accuracy whe
II hot l,-
other congress done so we'll in so
many different fields of endeavor as
the present congress has done.
AT its first session the present
congress, in addition to the many
tasks it actually completed, under
took several tasks which | firmly be- |
lieve it will bring to completion in its
second session next winter Among
these / hope and believe that the bills |
to prohibit contributions by corpora
tons, and to lower the duties on i'm
ports from the Philippine islands |
each of which have been passed by
one house will be enacted into law. / /
have reason to believe, that favorable |
action will be taken upon the bill |
limiting the number of hours of en-
ployment of every employee But far
more important are the measures |
which have actually been passed, and |
as to these measures I wish to reiter-
ate that they are not import;nt in a
merely partisan sense, but ar. impcr-
ant because they subserve the well
fare of our people as a whole, of our
nation as an entirety. They are i'm
portant because they who enacted
them onto law thereby showed them
selves 10 be fit representatives of
good Americans"
Here the president lauds congress
for continuing appropriations for the
upbuilding of the navy for the Pan
anna canal and for the betterment of
relations and for rail-
road rate regulation. 1t concludes
wishing Watson and his colleagues
success.