The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-03
TELEPHONES, ,
THE POWER OF SPEECH.

for the tlme pelnB government py ordinary processes of organization is being supplemented by government conducted through the power of speech. President Roosevelt gave an address yesterday and the day before and will give additional addresses to- morrow and the day after. They have to do with the state of the nation. Sec- retary Taft has made one speech while guest of the empire of Japan and will make several more before he returns to his desk at Washington. Other members of the cabines will from time to time add their opinions and Judgments on the affairs of the moment until our education is con- sidered complete.
 President Roosevelt in his address to the people of Iowa said in unmis- takable language that he has no inten- tion of modifying the course of the department of justice towards law breakers whether rich or poor, in high or low station. He even went so far as to say that he has been asked to move more cautiously in prosecuting these evil-Yninded ones in order not to disturb the industrial world, but his answer has been in each instance that no aid of that sort need be ex- pected from him so long as he re- state again the purpose which anil mates him two days running and probably four 1t must be said that his statements lack nothing in unfaltering purpose. No sinner need look to him for comfort and no sinner should ex- pect comfort from him. If there is any one quality for which President Roosevelt will be held in kind remem- brance by his fellow countrymen and placed high in the history of the country 1t is fearless and commend able hatred of dishonesty. It may truthfully be said of him that he has done more to straighten the currents of commercial life than any other pol itician of his time, The big corpora tions have been brought to the waters rF S.afor,,, a,,d Y.aadA +1 5.lntr 4he.a from. Not all of them by any means have been given this drastic treatment, but all have had it suggested to them by the treatment others have received that to encounter the wrath of the ad- ministration is to suffer torment of soul and loss of money.
 The President, however, makes a mistake when he attributes the criti- cism to which he has been subjected to a secret desire on the part of the country to have him let up on the law breakers The country is with him on that issue What is desired, however is that he shall not take the bad con. duct of a few conspicuous sinners ay justification for introducing methods of federal government which while they make direct for the apprehension of the guilty fill the innocent an( law-abiding with fear and alarm. Hi speech yesterday renews his recon
 nendation to extend and expand tht power of the federal government ovel the corporations doing an interstat, business of any importance, incorpor ated or not incorporated. That recon mendation is so novel and so fraugh with the danger of experiment. that i means the unsettlement of business not that it is necessarily unsound il philosophy but that so sweeping
 change in the business methods of tn country should be undertaken only af ter it has received the impartial con sideration of practical men and thei hearty endorsement. The situation " have is a thing of long growth and as much due the moral shortsighted ness of man as his devilish affinity fo wrongdoing. Its cure must be thin of long growth and must rely upo the expanded moral consciousness ( man and the development in him ( more God-like virtues. It is becaus
 man is what he is that so startling
 cure as President Roosevelt continue to recommend with increasing fur and determination unnerves the ave, age person who lacks the President boundless self-complacency Thel
 will be lacking no applause when l
 lands wretch in jail for evil-doin
 even though all the wretches will ne
 CT be incarcerated at the same tin
 should MT. Roosevelt live forever
 be President. There will be applau
 lacking for policies of governme'
 which to say the least of them ha'
 not been tested by practical expel
 ence in a country which is based u
 on the principle that the best for