The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-22
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Roosevelt's Alarm.

The leaders OF tho Republican parry
3 ,Ir,,,st M very much alarmed that the
president OF the United States must must: 50
out al Ills way Il to issue q campaign
document, pleading for the election 81. elton OF
Republican nominees for Congress, 3I'rcsl-
don't Roosevelt recognizes that many OF
the voters ia the United States are tired red
of Republican rule, and that there y e, ~ y
4 rraye danger from his point OF View OF 9
Democratic majority in the next r q nus
1 az Representatives.. Therefore ne make IS
plea 10 the business Interests" OF tfl ".
country not to disturb the present stat.ls
4 ~ Congress, lest they destroy prosperity
4 He gays that to change the leadership
and organization Of the House at st tls
time means to bring confusion q upon 't'l
n those who have been engaged An study
& ing and working out a great corn pre- men
! awe scheme for tho betterment OF our
x Industrial. social and civic conditions.
Mr.. Roosevelt Is neither frank nor no. TAR.
\ He speaks as though the country were
n Indebted TO tho Republican mem bera OF :
II Congress for all the beneftceat legisl:a
R ton OF the last session. when he knows
4 that he had 10 Gull Democrats TO his
8 aid In order to put through his own pet
measures, which he had Appropriated
4 from Democratic platforms.
~ But tho meat in the President letter
Ms his plea for the protective rei If. s5i
3sssiis,.yVe stand unequvocally for q protective
d J., RI
81 phenomenal industrial prosperity which
I've are now enjoying IS not lightly 70 ne
IN 3nopardizcd: for It would he TO the last
D degree foolish to secure liere and there
3'3 " small bcnefi AZ III . cost OF yeneral
sfjEh,,sineys M depression. II +. ut " llsneNGr q
riyen "a 70 \ or SC hel,,lo becomes evidently
u 9iisadvantageous 10 tho nation l'ecalse
ofs ti1e changes which 50 on from yea
n to year In our Gang rsiss n I'd ~ her.a ~ Is
IA fe.,slble to change this ra.o OF scile Vie
syyithou t too much dislusltion o. the sys-
fem, IT Will be .lo,le, Will an general re-
ii vision Of the rates ana schedules III
liza undertaken whenever 1t shall appear
81 "a the sober business sense of oMf pc ople
N that on the whole Lae benefits 10 be de-
q rived from making sucn changes VII
" outweigh the Is disadvaniaises--tha t2E IS,
H when the revision will do more good than
itLrin. III !.
sbgtgf".The question Of revising lhe III taIlll
\ stands wholly apart from the Question
81 OF dealing with the so-called trust e. ! III
a2S The only way in which It Is possible TO
II deal with those trusts and monopoles
and this great corporate wealth is by
action along the lire OF the laws en-
a acted by tho present Congress and Its
immediate predecessors 81 s
He ignores all questions OF right and and
81 justice involved In the tariff. and attends
y 10 the buslnessA duest.pl only. Protect ,rt.
h the trusts ana tho consumer he hanged.
Tho issue is made, and the & Democrats 7
should accept It gladly. Is
HE AS for Mr.. Roossvelt's a ssault upon the
radical element and mis- plea or lconser " :
4 tlsm-but that is too funny to be DIS dis
III GUESSED.