The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-24
THE OLD WAR HORSE.


The Chicago Inter Ocean, the old war
horse of machine politicians and fren-
jxted financiers, has CALAMITY leaped
INTO the fight as of yore with the most
malignant attack upon President
Roosevelt and his policies we have
ever read. From the very holiness
with which the Inter Ocean denounces
the president, from the false arguments
- uses to justify it in its attack. from
The attack coming at time when the
Roosevelt Panic" engineered by Wall
Areet's corruptionists to destroy CON
xiosnce in President Roosevelt, is at its
4eighyrA -aan not believe otherwise
{han this is the beginning of the storm
0f the Millionaires' Conspiracy to down
4ee president. That this is true, that
wall streets millionaires have really
engineered panic to destroy the conf
1ence Of the people in President Roose-
welt by touching their pocketbpoks, we
6elieve we can prove.
ahe Inter Ocean asks this question:
Why is this? Why does enterprise
A5cken in the midst of plenty: Why
do We halt on the way, though the sun
ct prospsrity still lights us? Why are
we faint-hearted, with all the material
means Of Industrial and commercial
M1Aisvement in our hands?"
And then It gives it's own answer as
1a1ows:
"Yho answer is plain. All these
&A1ngs have come to pass because the
president of the United States has
seen fit to bring them to pass for pur-
poses which he has declared 10 be ad-
eQuate and to be worth. in his opinion
the price which the rest Of us are be-
ing called upon to pay"
The answer is false because the cues
ton is founded on a falsity and abso-
lutely misrepresents the true facts con-
corning conditions in this country En-
terprise has not sickened in the midst
neglecting to use "t2 material means
of Industrial and commercial achieve
ment in our hands" That this is true
we offer as proof another quotation
from this editorial of the Inter Ocean:
''The farmers, on whose broad foun-
dalton the prosperity of the nation is
a.d 10
larger bank deposits than are register
ed in the books of any last year. More
over, even with their smaller crops.
they will receive greater sums from
sales In Europe than any that hereto
tore have come to their hands,
In that quotation the Inter Ocean ut
Sers the only truth contained in it's en-
tire editorial-our farmers are the ba-
AIS Of American prosperity and they
.are more prosperous than they ever
were before. Nor has any policy or
tatterance of President Roosevelt in
.Sured them in the least This year
the American farmer is receiving more
than he ever did before for the size
crops he has had. His corn crop av-
erages with the average corn crop of
the last ten years and the price he Is
receiving for this crop is just twice
the price he has received for his corn
on an average during the past ten
years. Only the other day E. H. Har-
riman, who has been an object of at
tack by President Roosevelt many
times, when asked if it was true that
he had given orders to the superintend
operations from now on, replied that
there was absolutely no truth in such !,
statement. And he qualified his denial
by femarking that owing to the crops
that had to be moved this year rail
roads could not curtail. What does
that mean, therefore? Simply that the
American farmer. in getting his crops
TO market, must share his prosperity
with the railroads and that the chair
Of prosperity that starts with the farm
er and continues through the railroads
manufacturers of farming implements
etc, and returns to the farmer by the
consumption of his products by the
men who work for the railroads ane
manufacturers, is as yet unbroken ant
is continuing to pile up more and more
wealth for the people of this country
And Furthermore, the people of this
country are getting a greater share O.
that prosperity through the efforts O
President Roosevelt. He is breakins
the power of the trusts-financia
trusts, implement trusts and railroad
trusts-and the farmer as well as tn,
rest of the people are reaping the bene
fit
The Inter Ocean does not deny that ,
curb on all our various trusts wa
needed but it does deny that Presiden
Roosevelt pursued the right line of al