Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-10
MISREPRESENTATION
Thorough Analysis of Presi-
dents Message Reveals
Strength of Document
A WARNING AGAINST HYsTERIA
Believes Blind and Unthink.
ina Attacks on All Forms Of corpor-
atoms Dangerous to Continued Pros
perity-Messse is cautionary-Fur-
ther Analysis Given.
ecia, to rimes-Repunlican.

Washington Dec. 10-S1nce congress
has had time to analyze thoroughly
the lengthy message sent to it by Pres
ident Roosevelt, the underlying sentl-
ment of the entire document has been
found to be an appeal for greater
conservatism on the part of the Ameri-
can people, Altho some critics have
contended that the message IS 100
lengthy, nevertheless it is genera y
acknowledged to be one of the most
masterful efforts that has ever found
its way from the white house.
In the very first sentence Of the mes
sage the president seems to feel that
the conditions existing threaten the
overthrow of the countrys present
prosperity. He says:
LAS a nation we still continue tf en-
Joy literally unprecedented prosper
ity; and it is probable that only reck-
less speculation and disregard of legitt-
mate business methods on the part OF
the business world can materially mar
this prosperity"
Farther along in his address he
warns against the hysterical attacks
made in certain quarters on all forms
of corporate wealth. It is recognized
nowhere more fully than in the halls OF
congress that the American people have
reason for their show Of anger, be-
cause of the unearthing Of gross abuses
in high places, but this Indignation
now is being directed against other
corporations, with injustice to them
and with danger to general commercial
prosperity. In touching on this subject
the president said:
ITO preach hatred Of the rich man
as such, to carry on campaign OF
SANDER and invective against him. to
seek to mislead and inflame to madness
honest men whose lives are hard and
who have not the kind of mental train
ing which will permit them to appre-
ciate the danger in the doctrines
preached-all this is to commit crime
against the body polite and to be false
to every worthy principle and tradition
Of American national life. Moreover,
while such preaching and such agita-
ton may give livelihood and certain
notoriety to some of those who take
part in it, and may result in the tenn
pOTdTy QOlltlCdl SuCCCSS OA OluCIS IA
the long run every such movement will
either fail or else will provoke vio-
lent reaction, which will itself result
not merely in undoing the mischief
wrought by the demagog and the agi-
tator, but also in undoing the good
that the honest reformer, the true up
holder of popular rights, has painfully
and laboriously achieved"
President Roosevelt has declared that
the corporation is the natural out
growth Of modern business conditions,
and that corporation properly con-
Quoted is a powerful factor in the adj
vancement Of commerce. No one is
more vigorous in attacking corporation
abuses, and it is pointed out that no
president has recommended, and, by
the force of his personality, compelled
legislation for the enforcement of cor.
poration laws, as has the present oc-
cupant of the white house. Because
of these facts, the appeal to the Amer
lean congress and the American people
to proceed with less virulence in their
efforts to correct business abuses
comes with added force
Congress has had veritable satur-
MALTA Of "trust-busting.'' This has had
it's effect upon the American people,
to the end that they are taking into
their own hands what the president
intended should be left to the national
lawmakers. All this has tended to un-
settle business to certain extent, and
were it not for the marvellous crops of
the United States and the equally mar
velous output of it's mines, the effect
Of this nervousness might lead to
repetition of the conditions of 1893.
This evidently is the presidents fear,
or at least this is the manner in which
congress generally interprets the mes
sage.