The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-24
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL. Issued Thursday. One Dollar a Year.
THE PREsIDENr,S TRIP.

THE PRESIDENTS TRIP.
 The announcement is made from the executive offices at Oyster Bay that the advance copies of the speech es to be made by President Roosevelt next week and the week following will be carefully guarded lest they be printed before they are delivered. It has been the custom of the President and of public men in general to send out complete copies of addresses to be made in order to insure their publica- tion in the newspapers of the country. The Provincetown speech was accf- dentally printed in a periodical con- trolled by a close personal friend of MT. Roosevelt before it was delivered and in that way was brought to the attention of Wall street and discount ed before the market opened. It is his determination that a similar break shall not occur again.
 We are not so much concerned with the occasional printing of presidential speeches in advance as we are with the tone they are likely to take on. We have said before that there was req son to hope that in the impending speeches the President would see fit to modify their spirit. No one expects, and no good citizen looks to him up- on any occasion to soften his assur- ance that the laws of the land shall be impartially enforced, but all good citizens, on the other hand, have good reason to look to him to squeeze out everything that can be construed as a vindictive attack on capital in the name of good government. They learn from more or less reliable sources that in the forthcoming speeches the President intends to repeat in spirit the speech made at Provincetown, which did more to add to the confus- ion of the hour than any speech he ever made. Says the Oyster Bay corre- spondent of the New York World, who has earned an enviable reputation for accuracy of statement: "Those who have been expecting the President to say or do something to reassure Wall street are doomed to disappointment. In the six speeches he is to deliver on his coming trip it is understood he will say things more radical than he has yet given utterance to and will pledge his administration to a war to the death on all lawbreakers high or low. There is to be increased effort to break up illegal combinations and not a ray of hope for the defiant finan- ciers of Wall street"
 The disturbing feature of this state ment consists in its tone and spirit. No one wants President Roosevelt for 8 moment to play into the hands of Wall street and no intelligent person expects him to let up on the lawbreak- CTS of the country, but everyone has the right to expect that in his assault upon the wicked he shall not injure the law-abiding, who constitute the great majority of the people of the country. His contemplated ferocity provokes one, too, to inquire for the necessity of additional attacks on will ful capital. He has declared over an6 over again that his unshaken policy is to follow the trail of the evil-doer: and he has moved in a hundred direc. tons to prove the sincerity of his as. sertlon. We do not believe that there is a man in the country who doubts his purpose or who believes that SC long as he is in office he will strike hands with the lawbreaking element If ever man had reason to be satis' fled with his undertaking in these re, gards that man is President Roosevelt Even those who take naturally to law, breaking and who are at most timel ready to run risk and take chance at lodging continue to lie low, con vinced that the storm he has kicked up with the best intentions in tn, world will not blow over. Why then it may be asked, does he deem i necessary to repeat the righteou threats he has made. expressed il fercer language than ever? What nev conditions have been created that h should again fire at the familiar tar get of abuse? Have the evil-doers re turned to their evil ways? Is the pow CT of the government less than 1t wa when the President first proclaime his relentless purpose? Must tn country be told anew and in stronge language than ever that he mean just what he says and that those wh look to him for relief are bound to b disappointed? Has the President final