The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-11
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able ~ us hn' " : imperative.
Fs~wts~n billions hapr~n- - 10 tho
amount ~ mon-y that a f~w rich p~pplr.
thousands upon thou-and- 81 m'ldle
class people. stall other thousands upon
thousands 81 widows and orphans. ~
@ people. ~ hardworsing people and
~ III kinds ~ people have invested in
the railroads of this countrv
We have had tho tcmcrity. " no,
worse. { o point out heretofore IN Mr..
ROOSEVELT that the stability ~ this
vast interest could he successfully H.
sailed only AT the expense Of and To the
de'riment Of the whole body polite.
We set forth that no industry IN the
country. no vested interest of any kind
whatsoever. could hope To escape the
common calamity which Mr.. Roosp-
vET's insane course invited. nav COM
PEELED. We set this plainly forth. with
perfectly ineligible futility. ia the
earliest stages of Mr.. ~RoosEvELr's
mania against the railroads, and we
have repeated il since when the occasion
seemed instructive.
We nave now reached q peculiarly
interesting stage in the development
II Mr. RoosEvELT's intellectual disturb
snce where its relation is tangible and
rslpable results Of much gravity are
~unhappily apparent TO all. We know
what our crops are. They are less in
volume than il had bean hoped. but the
discrepancy is far more thar compen-
stated by the increased money value in
duced by foreign demand. Our farmers
will again divide an incredible sum of
money, and as heretofore they will diff
fuse il in every conceivable direction.
They have performed with natures aid
once again their function Of adding
thousands Of millions TO the natural
wealth Of the country. The condition
produced should be one of prodigious
prosperity. Heretofore 10 has always
been 30. Heretofore the whole country
- .a-s-I "a - q. r..-~ -. -
ciprocal productivity and of beneficent
activity.
II in a grave reflection that in such
conditions as we describe, when the
transportation system Of no part of the
country is adequate to the vast tonnage
that crowds upon it, when so incredible
a volume of new wealth is being distrib-
.uted among an industrious multitude,
and when all signs should betray only
Astounding prosperity and content-it
is q grave reflection that in such circum-
stances the securities whose stability is
inseparable from the common welfare
should withar and decline q if they were
visited with a deadly blight.
Mr.. ROOSEVELT was warned ut the out
set Of the consequences that must .ensue
when he should have succeeded in i'm
pairing the credit and security OF so vast
an aggregation Of the national wealth.
The fourteen billions invested in the rail-
roads is not an isolated pile. II was
not raised by itself. II cannot stand by
itself. Il is intimately and i~nseparably
associated and identified with every
other great industry that the nation pos
sesses. It's vitality is tho vitality Of all.
1t is not tho prosecution and the pun
ishment OF evildoers In railroad man
agement that is at the root Of the trouble.
Far from IL. The eradication Of corrupt
practices and dishonest methods is more
TO the advantage Of railroad properties
than anything else well could be. The
sending Of corrupt and corrupting in
dividuals to jail, the stripping Of them
Of their illgotten wealth and their deg |
radiation in the eyes Of the public would
be heartily approved by every honest
man in the United States. Tho trouble
ia that no such measures OF remedy or
OF punishment circumscribe or limit the
ambitions Of Mr.. ROOSEVELT. 1t is not
what he has done or what he ia now doing
that destroys confidence. ID is that |
which he proclaims 80 violently that he
h about to do. It is his incessant de-
mand for new powers. 40 radical and SO
menacing in their application when esti-
Vated in the light of his personal charac-
ser and Of his destructive proclivities, |
which yisturbs not alone our own coun-