Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-08-24
LETTER OF ROOSEVELT TO IN.
DIANA MAN USED AS CAM.
PAIGN MATERIAL.
PRESENT ORGANIZATION
SHOULD BE MAINTAINED
Says Change Would Work to Detrl-
.ment of Nation-Protective Tariff
Endorsed, But Necessary Changes
in Schedule Favored.

SieoolAdu JdiueS II. watson, OF RuSn-
Vile, Ind, reviewing and approving of
the work of the present congress, and
declaring:
ITO change the leadership and or
sanization of the house at this time
means to bring confusion upon those
who have successfully engaged in the
steady working out of great and
comprehensive scheme for the better
nent OF our social and civic condi-
TONS, was made public Monday
through the Republican congressional
campaign committee. The president
also declared that such change
would result in hurtful oscillation
between the extreme radical and the
extreme reactionary. The president
said also that he hopes the present
congress will enact laws prohibiting po-
llcal contributions by corporations,
lowering duties on imports from the
Philippines, and limiting the number
OF hours for railway employees.
Favors Protective Tariff.
I'VE stand unequivocally for pro.
tective tariff, and we feel that the phe-
nomenal industrial prosperity which
we are now enjoying is not lightly to
be jeopardized, for it would be to
the last degree foolish to secure here
and there a small benefit at the cost
OF general business depression. But
whenever a given rate or schedule be-
comes evidently Instantaneous to
the nation, because of the changes
which go on from year to year in our
conditions, and where it is feasible
to change this rate or schedule with
out too much dislocation of the sys.
tenn, it will be done, while a general
revision of the rates and schedules
will be undertaken whenever it shall
appear to the sober business sense of
our people that on the whole the
benefits to be derived from making
such changes will outweigh the disad-
vantages; that is, when the revision
will do more good than harm.
Trust Question Is Separate.
Let me add one word of caution,
however. The question of revising
the tariff stands wholly apart from
the question of dealing with the SO.
called 'trusts'-that is, with the con,
troll OF monopolies and with the super.
vision of great wealth in business, es.
pecially in corporate form. The only
way in which it is possible to deal
with those trusts and monopolies and
this great corporate wealth is by &C.
ton along the line of the laws enacted
by the present congress and it's i'm.
mediate predecessors. The cry that
the problem can be met by any
changes in the tariff represents,
whether consciously or unconsciously
an effort to divert the public's atten.
ton from the only method of taking eff
fective action"
Mr.. Roosevelt says that if only parti
san issues were involved in this con.
test he should hesitate to say any.
thing publicly in reference to it, but
he does not feel that this is the case
He feels that 'all good citizens who
have the welfare of America at heart
should appreciate the immense
amount that has been accomplished by
the present congress, organized as it
is, and the urgent need of keeping this
organization in power" The president
declares that with Mr. Cannon as
speaker the house has accomplished a
literally phenomenal amount of good
work. 1t has shown courage, good
sense and patriotism such that it
would be real and serious misfor,
tune for the country to fail to recog.
nize."
Mr.. Roosevelt then enters on a re.
view of the work of the congress and
the important measures passed by 1t.
Measures which, he declares, are i'm.
portant not In partisan sense but
are important because they subserve
the welfare of the people as a whole.
OF the Panama canal he expresses the
opinion that it Is the colossal engineer.
Ing feat of all ages and the credit for
the acquisition Of the canal strip ia
given to congress.
For Bigger Navy.
Strong approval is expressed of the
attitude of congress toward the I'D.
building OF the navy and then the
president takes up the measures deal.
ing with government regulation of
business.
President Roosevelt reviews and an.
proves the measures taken to secure
certain rights to wage.workers, in.
Guiding the employers liability law
and the eight-hour law. He an.
nounces that if additional legislation
is needed to make the eight-hour law
effective he will ask for it and also
that next year he will ask congress to
put in permanent form his regulations
for securing Saturday half-holidays for
wage-workers under the government
during the summer months. I'VE will
do everything" he says, that can be
done to further the interests of the
farmer and the wage-worker and this
declaration is subject to only one
reservation, which is that for no man
and no body of men will we do any
thing that is wrong"
His Usual Luck.
Now, then" said the leader of
the mob to the horsethief, "if you've
got anything to say before we swing
you off be quick about it,"
"Nothin' ter say" replied the cul.
prit, except that this is me usual
luck wild horses lose be a-neck."
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