The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1907-04-12
MEAT TROUBLE OF 'O4
MAY BE DUPLICATED

whether Hearst and Belmont may be
brought to embrace each other, are
questions which no man has the te-
nerit5 to assure or the reasonable
right to answer.
Among those who have lead us
in the past, and among those who
are to lead US in, the future, there
deserves to live and there will be
left to live no name more honored
no character more revered, no lead
ership more trusted, and no personal
ity more beloved than William ]. I.
Bryan Of Nebraska.
I'VE are fronted now with condi-
tions in this republic which few men
could have foreseen, and which no
man of ten years ago would have
had the termity OF predict. Out Of
the camps Of the enemy, seats Of
the scornful, cut of the Pretorian
guard of privilege and monopoly,
there has come an unexpected and
potential convert to the creeds and
theories of democracy. And whether
we find the schoolmaster who has
taught him In the eloquent and ir-
restible evangels Of Bryan, in the
thunder which has doomed persist
emily from the eight guns of the in
domitable Hearst, or whether that
providence which shapes the destin-
les of nations and OF man has drop
ped the scales from his partisan eyes,
the fact remains that Theodore
Roosevelt has learned his democratic
lesson we'll. We may as well ac-
knowledge fairly what history will
fearlessly affirm, that he has become
the foremost and most practical
champion of pop,sl az sights which
these two generations Of the repub.
lie have produced.
Following Democratic Ideas
grhe things for which we have
fought for forty years he has been
putting into fearless and effective
execution. Since William R. Hearst
flung at his feet the challenge to re-
form in the inconquerable array OF
statistics which prove the existence
and the iniquity of trusts. The siren
uous president of the United States
has not failed or faltered in his dis
Greet and fearless way to find a
remedy. Since William ]. Bryan fash
ioned the eloquent eyangles which
went forth from the Garden meeting
in Madiso nSquare, the president at
Washington has not hesitated to go
forward with redoubled zeal and en-
ergy in the prosecutions Of his work.
Avoiding the extreme which might
have halted and destroyed HIS snis-
sion, with a conservatism as firm as
the times required, and with agrad-
|icalism as fearless as the peoples
rights demanded, he has gone slowly.
steadily, discreetly and yet definitely
toward the disownmen Of the priYiI-'
eyed iniquities that were robbing the
government:
He is putting into execution the
things which democratic platforms
have thundered for twenty years,
what our propaganda have preached
and what our platitudes Of popular
liberty have pleaded, he has framed
| in part in statutes until today as an
honest party, representative Of an
honest people we can do not less than
recognize his patriotism and applaud
his transcendent service. He has
grappled the iniquities of the meat
trust which was spreading virus
through the physical veins Of the re-
public. He has put his probe into the
putrid politics OF the insurance com
,panies and purged them Of the pus
that was poison to politics and trade.
He has gripped by the throat the
almost omnipotent power Of the
transportation magnates and he has
today at his feet and asking clemency
atshis hands the tallnst and most tra:
mendous figures OF the tyrant rail
way systems Of our land.
We have found where we did moi
seek hims a man to do the things
1.-The people sorely need We do moi
4 know Il We could succeed In placing
In power the man our partisan loyal.
ty would prefer We do not know
whether IA this environment pul
Iparty's choice would change the ma
4 chinery and win or lose the fatefu'
i battle of our economic life u sound
i logic and IA clear common sense Ns
must recogn the tremendous start
i the tremedd dous prestige which tlls
president has made IIe IS every incl
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