The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-01
CLEWS DEFENDS
 THE PRESIDENT
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had been violators of the law were but the necessary and legal consequences of thelr own guilty ceHiuct
 Article II, section 1, of the constitu- 1 ton of the United States requires that before he enters on the execution of his office the president shall take the following cath; T do solennly swear. tlRat win faithfully execute the office ! of tho president of the United States, and will to the best of nay ability p-e- serve, protect and defend the constltu- ton of the United States.
 Section of the same article of the Fconstitution, in enumeratlng the duties of the president, says: That he shall itake care that the laws shall be faith fully executed"
 At the time of his inauguration as president of the United States Theo- dore Roosevelt solemnly swore that he would faithfully execute it's laws; and all of you, know, will agree with me when I assert that he has Loyalty and ] lfearlessly kept that oath
 As an honest man, he has only tried to do his duty, He has attacked tho law sreaking corporations, and those in control who have amassed large for tunes out of them dishonestly, and aase only. Not to have prosecuted and to have let these corporations, and their officers, go on, unchecked and un- tunlshed, would have been to violate n.s oath of of,ce ard to neglect the duty imposed upon him.
 It would certainly make a farce of 4 this great republic, and east stigma upon our integrity, if the laws of the land were not enforced against the rich and the poor aiiko No such reflection, as that upon cur national honor will ever te tolerated Dy Theodore Roosc-. welt! Flo has been ready at all times to upheld taa national hsnor It has been wolf s1id that the honor of the nation is tho soul of the nation.
 l President Roosevelt's reso,ute and unylolding stand for the rights of the people, against the powerful corporate 4 wrong -dcers who had thrived 50 long upon their secret misdeeds, has conn manded the attention ana admiration of the world. His excess of earnest ness and denunciation at times, we can ! forgive, I Victor Hugo, in speaking of one of \ the worlds greatest 'Immortals," tru- ly said ''When a man is glory in tho 1 face of his nation, that nation which \ does not perceive the fact astounds tho human race around
 I President Roosevelt has proved h.in- self successful crusader against suc- cessful corporate dishonesty, involving < violations ofSlaw; and 1t is doubtful, aas he says, whether his policies have had any material influence in bringing { about the severe depression and bank ing crisis of this memorable year, But whether they have or not, he declares, with the courage of his convictions, that during the remainder rofshls term he 1 will not swerve from these DO les, but persevere in them unfinchingly. YeE lall that his administrator hSs Cor 3 has been to une1rth the wrongdolng, It ! is impossible to cut out Q cancer " th- out making he patient feel tempora1i y worse than before
 It Is a mistake, or slander, to say that Theodore Roosevelt has made war against capital He is only opposed to dishonest corporate methods, and dis honestly acquired wealth He r@spee s the possessors of honorably acauifea and honestly used fortunes, ana would protect their property interests in ev- cry way possible, and guard them against injustice, and be -resolute in de- lending their rights; for thelr success leads to the inference that they afe good citizens. But he will assured y stand against cela1os of interruptions { cunning in the infringement of railway industrial or financial corporations as rcsolutcly as he rc9ld against crimes oi brutll E.0 aace, 'r equally punish tas rich ran ard p8or man, for (crimS is crime whether committed by al ut oaiacy or capitalist, a poor wagefearn CLIO. a mob. Thcsc are h.s avowe; principles and poiic.es
 He would regard a nan who build a railway where it is needed, and op crates 1t fairly and honestly, as a pub lis bcnafactor; but 4 that man r;anlpu lated tho stock and bonGs of that rail way so as to swiadla the stockholder or bondhc,i.rs, or the public, or gay rebates or otherwise favored one ship per over another, he would regard the man as aa eneSpy Of sur iA5ttuFion who should be punished for hls wrong doin5 All this gees to answer tn question: Is President Roosevelt's pol icy towards capital sound! l say tha It Is, when rightly understood!
 TSrtscrnro.e, lie regulation of cor poratlons by the Federal Governmen th.tsl ..t ra made absolute, and take -Nay i om the states, where they do q
 interstate tusiasss, like tAe railway end ext Eoss companies. This would
 better for the corporations, themselvei as well as tho people than present cor ditions. They should be placed undc national control, just as the nations banks are.
 This centvll undivided control wou.
 do away with the confusion of feder' and state authority now existing. More
 over. would favor the extension ( thls federal control to all interstate col
 pesations, and it will come in tim
 Meanwhile President Roosevelt is pax
 ing the way for it, and to him let !
 give all honor for his long step in t.
 right direction.
 But, now that MT. Roosevelt has sul
 stantially achieved his purpose, he ca
 well afford to rest satisfied that h
 work will continue to bear good fru -- withcut any further public address
 on the subject.
 {. The people are already familiar vii -, his views, and their continued reite