The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-26
~ M'kINLEY nan LIVED,
Appeal 20 senator kRox o. PeRnsyI-
vamha for an Opinion.

To THE EDIrOR or TuE Sun Sir. hear
Of many serious persons who are thinking.
rejecting, pondering and asking whether
the accommodating and laying aside OF money
or the sending IL out Of tho country. as 50
many Of the wage earning immigrants h
are newcomers are said TO he doing. would
have begun had MIR. Mckinley lived and
been President till now. with a Republican
Congress back 81 him.
He could. il Is said. NJ we'll have been
President for twelve years a. Roosevelt 10
be reelected aud he in ONCE eleven.
The inquiry Is not To he answered cor
rectly onhand. At the best the reply will
be a conclusion Of con lecture aud surmise.
Roosevelt cannot we'll be quite impartial
Sov@Teigns rarely. they say. hear the spoken
truth. They may sometimes read IL. il
there 10 "A free aud independent press. but
visitors do not la general seek a cOuversa-
ton with the President to tell him I'M
pleasant things. Vera pro grGt,s is not the
speech Of visitors 1T tue White House.
Ex-senator SpOoner could. II he would.
give an Illuminating respouse tO the inquiry,
He was during many wears the backbone
" law In the Senate ON the Republican side
for MIR. Mckinley and Mr.. Roosevelt. His
clear statements pulled the party and each
Of those Presidents out Of many a hole.
Bat he has unfortunately left the Senate.
has accepted professional em~plOyments
from hated corporations. and worse than
all. has taken up residence as q lawyer in
New YORK. whittier SO many Of the eminent
in Washington aud all over the country
come. The centre ~ population, manu-
featuring. farming. mining and other in
dustries has rraversed the Alleghanies. but
there is only one New York
senator Knox would be invaluable as an
expert witness. He knows a lot. and has
precision OF language. He lived in Pitts
burg. the head centre of mammoth cOrpO-
rations. whose trusted law adviser he was
before he entered MIR. McKinley's Cabinet.
He 10 familiar with the ins and outs Of the
trusts" He served Roosevelt A. AttOr-
ney-General till the Senate claimed him.
He suggested TO the House ~ Representa-
lives nearly all the stringent legislation Of
1908 against railroads and ~monopolies. lie
conducted and won for the Government the
Northern Securities suit. He aided For
aker. Spooner and Inc other law lords in
the Senate to pound into decent form the
-amendatOry railway legislation of 1908.
w" oShatSl Us Sny AhaN uN hoaI0iuk
" money by the frightened would probably
have come as il did had Mr.. Mckinley lived
aud continued To be President?
The industrial expansion. the consOlida-
ton and combination Of corporations. the
capitalistic Capitalization, began with the
upward movement of business which fol-
lowed Mckinley's election in 1895 aud we're
perfected in his time. The desire was in
great part. no doubt. TO escape cutthrOat
competition and TO command foreign az
we'll as domestic markets. The Republican
party saw il all. glOried in it and made its
continuance a chief reason for defeating
Parker in 1904. Added to that was the
maintenance Of the banking and currency
system. which Secretary Root. the tempo
rary presiding officer. and Speaker Cannon.
the permanent president of the convention
at Chicago in 1904 which nominated ROoso-
welt, both said the Republican Congress had
in 1900 perfected and put on the statute
b0Ok Nov under Roosevelt banking and
currency are at sizes aud sevens.
Would it probably rave been thus had
Mr.. Mckinley lived and continued till now
to be President? II not. then why and how
has the disaster come? How can there be
obtained a needed supply OF currency TO
stave on falling prices. and nov can the
frightened be kept from boarding it after
il has been obtained? I. IL. NJ.
TARRYTOwH, November IS.