Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-07-27
Wby Roosevelt Mast Ran Again
THE PEOPLE AND THEIR
WHITE HOUSE RIGHTS
BY oALFRED HENRY LEWIS


and government, with it's presidents
and congresses and courts of Justice.
was born to see fair play between
them. The people, in their fight
with that pirate Money, were being
overborne. They were not, as they
saw the right, receiving fair play.
And so they swept Mr.. Roosevelt in
to the White House.
Money wanted catSpaw in the
White House, the people wanted a
President. Considering the popular
needs, no one was better fitted for the
place than Mr.. Roosevelt. In the
common claptrap sense, usual of poll
ticians, there was no issue between
the parties. Finance was settled and
the currency gold. Tariff no longer
disbursed; for the fixed expenses of
the country had been kited to heights
so extravagant that a tariff ''for
revenue only"---to which no one
could object every purpose
of "protection." With those ques-
/ tions of tariff and finance folded
away, an issueless people, their appre-
hensive eye on those pirates of preda-
tory gold, resolved upon reform. And
what was that reform? Not hing
astounding, nothing hideously revolu-
tionary, surely The people merely
demanded that existing laws be en-
! forced.
Mr.. Roosevelt is eminently adapted
to his hour and it's demands. He has
no sour exclusions, no dignities that
call for pedestals or require to be
alone. He calls himself Republican;
/ it is a misnomer. He is not Repub-
lican, but an American, and partisan
| only in his patriotism. Long ago he
said, 81 do not number party loyalty
among the ten commandments.
Peculiarly is he one who, with just
| and even balance, should hold the
scales between the Man with the
Dollars and the Man with the Hands.
1t is without effort that he pre-
serves the equities between Capital
and Labor. He is no Jack Cade; he
does not say that a three-hooped pot
shall have seven hoops, or look for
ward to time when his palfrey shall
in the national Cheapside go to grass.
Neither is he lackey to Money, wait
ing breathless and anxious to do it's
bidding. Mr.. Mitchell of the miners
is not preferred to Mr.. Baer of the
mines; by the same White House door
the pair of them come and go.
The people called Mr.. Roosevelt to
the Presidency that he might go
about a national house-cleaning, and
every pirate money force sought to
prevent his coming. It is not requir-
ed that one dive into details in recit-
ing what he has done. There are the
Indictments against oil and sugar and
railway rascals. There is the matter
of rebates. There are the sundry in
vestigations going forward against
railway and other corporate rogues.
Lastly, not least important, there is
the Panama Canal. have said that
it is not necessary to go over in detail
those reformative house-cleaning
moves SO honorably chargeabe to Mr..
Roosevelt 1t is, however, required,
in conjunction with his reiterated
determination to step Presidentially
down and out two years from next
March, to call the public eye to this;
not one of those reforms will have
been accomplished by that time. The
house-cleaning will be but half COM
plete. The middle of the ford is no
place to swap horses.
To cope with these sinister forces
calls for one who is not only wise and
brave and honest and aggressive, but
possesses those attributes in certain
nice proportions. He must be
Roosevelt: and the Rooseyelts are
sparse and few and far between. 1t
might take mankind an age to lay
hands on another. And the world
has no such time to spare, for the
Trust danger is immediate and cry
ing.
WHEN THE POLICEMAN QUITS THE
BEAT.
Who are made glad by Mr.. Roose-
velt's announcement of his Presiden
/ tial end to come in 1909? Who but
those Black-flags he is fighting. And
yet, if they are to be arrested in their
evil career, and brought beneath the
permanent thumb Of law before he
goes, why should they suck comfort
from his utterance? / give our Black
| flag folk full credit for knowing thor
oughly their own ignoble needs. They
| never fail to gauge a peril, once it
threatens them and theirs. II they
rejoice-as they do rejoice-when Mr..
Roosevelt promises to be no President
after 1909, it is because they hope to
!, live and last that space, and later re-
pair what injuries they have suffered
in their war with him. Their very
joy should give him notice of the
error of his anti White House ways.
Also, in this connection, Mr.. Roose-
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