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obstacles to it's use in violation of
law to accomplish results which can
not insure to the benefit of the public.
The practical trust managers and
beneficiaries care little for oratorical
denunciation and vehement rhetoric.
What they object to is efficient inter-
ference with their plans and purposes.
Campaign Charge Of Promises OF
Immunity to Trusts.
During the last campaign. or toward
the end of the campaign, when the de-
feat of Judge Parker was impending
it was thought necessary In the emer-
gency to assert that immunity was be-
ing promised on behalf of MIR. Roose-
welt to great corporate purposes. This
was specifically denied at the time as
unfounded ask any fair-minded
man whether the course of the present
republican congress elected with MIR.
Roosevelt, and acting on his recon-
mendation, gives the slightest justi-
fication for the charge that any cor
porate interest has been treated with
undue tenderness in the legislation
which has been enacted.
The Issue of the Present Campaign.
We are nearly half way through the
second administration Of Mr.. Roose-
welt. The question before the people Of
this country is wether. having elected
Mr.. Roosevelt, by an overwhelming
majority, to continue as the chief exc
.cutive for another term. and having
made him and his party responsible
for the national policies adopted. both
in legislative and in executive matters,
they shall now, by electing demo-
cratic congress. express disapproval
of his past course, and want of con-
fidence in his future action. The CAM
paign invoices not only the award of
merit or disapproval for things done.
1t involves the question. whether the
great work which Mr. Roosevelt. as the
leader of his party. and with the sup
port of his party. has entered upon and
carried far enough to indicate the pos
sibility of successful accomplishment.
shall now be seriously hampered and
IN a measure defeated. by returning.
as one of the coordinate branches OF
the national legislature. a body anXi-
ous for partisan reasons to embaraSS
him and his administration.
MIR. Roosevelt. Policy.
MI. 1OOSetelLS pOllCy is " SeCule,
by national legislative and executive
action, within the somewhat narrow
range of federal jurisdiction over in
terstate commerce. effective control of
those who manage and operate organ
lied capital, so as to prevent them. by
the misuse of the powerful instru-
mentalities that organization of capital
affords. from unlawfully suppressing
competition, establishing monopolies.
and thereby making impossible the
benefit from such organization of capt.
tai of reduction of prices and in
crease of conveniences which other
wise would and ought to inure to the
public.
With respect to this general policy
which has been carried forward by
Mr.. Roosevelt and the republican party
to point where successful issue is
reasonably assured if consistent
course of legislative and executive ac-
ton is permitted, the democratic party
asserts that it is the original patentee,
and that Mr.. Roosevelt and the republi-
can party have merely infringed their
patent rights. The unfounded char
acter of this claim of exclusive owner
ship by the democratic party in Mr.
Roosevelt's policy, l shall not stop to