Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-02-03

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phric acid applied to raw surfaces.
Mr.. Roosevelt was never an adept in
applying emollients. The irritant re.
sources of the pharmacopoeia are
more in his line"
The Philadelphia Press (Rep.) feels |
called upon to play the part of a
"whip"-for Speaker Cannon's colts
and to urge that the Philippine tariff |
bill, the joint statehood bill and the
rate bill are necessary measures zap
proved by the country and the party"
The Philadelphia North American
(Rep.) gives stern warning that after
all is said and done, the president
has S0,000000 of free Americans be-
hind him and that certain congress
men, particularly in Pennsylvania, bet
ter have a care, lest they be left at
home by the next election. Few
Americans" it adds, would not rather
trust Roosevelt with their liberties
than to trust any one man or group of
men in either house of Congress"
The San Francisco Call (Rep.) thinks
his measures will outsail the storm
and survive for reference to the people
in the coming election of the next
Congress-" and, in the opinion of the
Cleveland Leader (Rep.), "it behooves
the Senate leaders to act circumspect-
ly unless they wish smoldering public
resentment to burst into fame" Elk
cept among some of the professional
politicians and patronage-mongers, the
Indianapolis News Qnd.) believes,
Theodore Roosevelt is as strong as
he ever was" The News adds:
1--WE think it is important that this
point should be made clear, because
the fight now being made, under cover,
against the president, is really fight
on the people. The men who oppose
rate legislation, pure food legislation,
proper control and restriction of mono
poles, free trade with the Philippines
all of which would greatly benefit
the people-are exerting themselves to
destroy the influence of the president.
And their activity Is prompted by
their wish to defeat this legislation. 1t
is not the man Roosevelt they are
fighting, but rate legislation. The
people should understand this, for, in
spite of his mistakes, and notwith-
standing certain very obvious defects,
Theodore Roosevelt is the best friend
sometimes 1t seems as though he
were the only friend-of the people
in Washington. Our correspondent
suggests that, if the president loses
his fight for rate legislation, the peo-
pie will put the blame on him. We
very much doubt this. If they do they
will make mistake. Rate regulation
will be defeated, if defeated at all, by
the Senate of the United States, and
we do not think it will be able to es-
cane resnOnsibilitv
The st. Louis Republic (Dem J.,
however, holds the president respon-
sible for lobbying" which it deems
a confession of weakness" The New
York Evening Post Qnd.), while pre-
dieting a clearer air, has this explana-
ton of the so-called instruction:
"a president once in office, and
pledged as Mr.. Roosevelt is not to
seek another term, becomes a more
negligible quantity than he likes to
think. Political interest soon centers
elsewhere. Who is to be the success
sor? What faction, what machine of
the many which are assembling their
parts, is to force the next nomination?
Those are the instructive questions o.
politicians, who always hasten to pros
trate themselves before the rising
sun. They are doing it in Washington
today. So many presidential booms
are in the making that the authority