The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-22
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL, rssued Thursday. One Dollar Year
ROOSEVELT AND TAFT.

The addresses of President Roosevelt and Secretary of War Taft following each other as they did by brief peri cd of twenty-four hours have stimulat- ed public interest in their immediate political future They are accepted by the country at large as the agents of the gospel of resolute enforcement of the law without regard to the charac- ter, possessions or station of the party proceeded against. The policies of the President are the policies of the secre- tary of war except in one or two in- stances. The question then to be debat- ed with more or less interest has to do with contrasted tenlperaments and methods
 President Roosevelt's Provincetown speech has not relieved the perturba- tion of certain lines of industry nor has 1t suggested to men in the smaller investments that he is through with what has come to be regarded as his campaign against swollen fortunes" Even the Hartford Courant, a sturdy admirer of the President, is compelled to express it's regrets that in saying so many noble things upon Pilgrim soil he saw fit to give an additional dose of the strenuous life in denunciation s'because 1t puts in the hands of growing number of those who would nisrepresent and weaken him the op- portunity to quote certain details of the speech and attack him for these, re- gardless of the evidence the whole ad- dress furnishes of a high and sincere purpose" The New York World, a newspaper with a different political outlook, takes the President seriously to task for seeking to enact more laws flor the pleasure of keeping things stir red up. The Sun is more deliberate in its denunciation of the Presidents views and calmly invites him into the Ananias corner. In no newspaper that we have seen have his impetuous atti- tude and language been approved. The market gives no alarming signs of un- rest, having anticipated the speech. The little nervousness it displays Is due the unnecessary and foolish addi- tion he made to the speech, which add ed nothing to better understanding of his views but which did accentuate that feeling of unrest which has sprung mere than from anything else from his well known irnpulsiveness of character Without a shadow of doubt the Pres ident would have done we'll to confne his speech to the history which should have alone inspired it. His determna- ton not to do 1t is seen in his careless interpretation of the day the residents of Provincetown were celebrating.
 The attitude of the press towards the
 N--@ Taft speech, speaking of it as a whole, is one of great respect for the judicial tone of it and of affectionate regret that he saw fit to so completely efface himself from the consideration ot important public matters. So far as the act of self-effacement is concerned the regret expressed may be largely attributed to the skepticism which has suddenly overtaken the Roosevelt poli- cies No one probably expected him tc deny the faith of his chief. All admi that he expressed that faith in more attractive and less alarming manner than the President is capable of doing The clear majority wish that he had omitted the enthusiastic endorsement of the President. So far as The Journa and Courier is concerned it has moi seen how Secretary Taft could mak, political speech at this time ant avoid discussing the policies of the ad rninistration of which he is eabne officer He has been part of then and he would have continued to be part of them had he resigned from tn, cabinet in advance, unless he had re signed because he was not in sympath, with them, If it is true that Secretar, 
 of State Root is dissatisfied with tn Presidents attitude and wishes to re tire from the cabinet, it would i'll be come him to do so on that account He must have known as the rest c the country has known whither til Presidents bent was taking him. T have had any doubts about it woul have been to stupidly close his eyes t the inevitable Root and Taft and tn rest of the Presidents advisers an counsellors are part and parcel of hi policies and it is little short of absur to attempt any other construction { their positions. If they are part an parcel of those policies it would