Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-22
McK|NLEY'S POLICIES
Original Trust Buster, Asserts
CorteIyou.
BLAZED ROOSEVELT'S WAY
Secretary's Tribute to Martyrs
Courage and Farsightedness.
APPRECIATION OF CHARACTER
Interview With Creelman Published
in Pearson's observation-disclosures
of Late Presidents Acts.

The plans and purposes of President
Mckinley which were cut short by has
ASA ss.,,a ton, are set forth at some
length in the June number of Pearson's
magazine. in which James Creelman
quotes Secretary of the Treasury Cortel-
you. who as private secretary, proba bly,
was closer than any one else to the mar
tyred President
President Mckinley planned the control
and regula ton of trusts Mr. Cortelyou
says. In view of the fact that many
prominent men of the country have taken
pains to compare the administrat ton of
Roosevelt with the administration of Nc
kinley the utterances of the present Sec
rotary of the Treasury are of deep inter-
est.
Appreciation by Cortelyou.
Mr.. Cortelyou is quoted as saying:
1.-The idea that President Mckinley was
blind or Indifferent to the conditions and
abuses growing out of the sweeping pros
perity which attended the development of
large and larger forms of business during
his administration is mistake into
which many persons have fallen.
HE was wide awake to everything at
fecting the welfare of the country. But
the phenomenal prosperity that had come,
even by the beginning of his second term
in the White House. was so much greater
than he had anticipat ed-optimist as he
was on everything American-that it is
no exaggeration to say he was staggered
by it.
"He would say, How wonderful it is.
How wonderful. And yet. in the midst
of it ALL he said. again and again. This
trust question has got to be taken up in
earnest and SOON"
I'm his first term Mr.. Mckinley was
too busy to deal deeply with anything
but pressing questions of immediate gov
eminent, and difficult or debatable reforms
had to wait until he had time to turn
around. There was the working out of
the new currency and tariff laws. the
Spanish american war and all the com
growing out of it, The work in the White
House trebled and quadrupled. His own
office force had to be very largely in
creased to deal merely with the clerical
aspects of matters which he had to pass
on responsibility as head of the govern
ment'
Recourses to Meet Conditions.
I'VE had suddenly become world
power and international questions that
were formerly unusual events in one
administration became almost weekly
occurrences. f'FeSlOeHt "ds
not merely absorbed; he was engulfed.
But in his second administration there
was in some senses distinctly new Nc
Kinley The great strain and the COM
pick experiences through which he had
gone had broadened. deepened. sobered
and even sweetened him.
He became national in q new sense.
He seemed to feel the democratic as we'll
as the republican vote behind him He
realized with pride and satisfaction
that was almost inexpressible that
the Spanish American war had closed
up whatever there might have been
of a gulf between the north and the
south. The American people had been
under arms again as one nation
Il have heard him say with deep emo
ton Il can no longer be called the Presl-
dent of party; ! am now the President
of the whole people
with the war and it's questions be-
hind him he turned his attention to the
was then that he said This trust cues.
ton must Re taken up and settled. That
thought was in his mind when he died
that and the question of commercial
reciprocity with other nations; ;. ;.
ITO understand the real Mckinley II IS
necessary to know, for instance. that In
the White House. beset by thousand
different questions. he used TO set ASIDE
an hour every evening in which ne womlo
read the I:SIe to Mrs. Mckinley. The
great crowd. looking at him simply as a
Successful politician never. perhaps.
suspected the inner life of the man.
McKinley's Favorite Poem.
His nature was really expressed in
his favorite poem, which he constantly
read aloud:
But far the deep there are pillows
That never shall break on the beach
And have heard songs in the silence
That never shall float into speech:
And have had dreams Ill the valley
Too lofty for language to reach
such a man could not live in the
midst Of great moral-economic problems
without honestly reaching out to them
hands.
Mr. Mckinley saw the great on-rush
of prosperity. He saw with 1t evils IN
separable from the new conditions. ne
spoke of them plainly and often 10 those
who were nearest to him.
But to deal with them effectively. with
out shattering the interviewer ana deiI-
cate fabric of the forces that were co.
operating for the welfare of the country:
that was the question. The President
talked of it. he worried over, he slept
on 1t.
LET no man believe that, realizing as
he did the necessity for action. lest aDun-
dance should lead ussto ruin. any thought
Of temporizing with the evils found lodg-
ment in his mind. While at such times
he was slow in reaching conclusion.
once his mind was cleared OF Its doubts
he was absolutely resolute.
1.-The theory that Mr.. Mckinley subor-
dinatad his judgment to the will of Sena-
tor Hanna, or of anybody else. IS deiu-
sion. He was always the master. He
had the gentle persistency of Lincoln l
was with him night and day and ! know
that he was always the master. NO Will
controlled him but his own.
$50. when the necessity for dealing Sc
riOuSly with the trust question came into
his view. it was plain to be seen that he
had taken up within himself deliberate
stand from which one could have
moved him had he lived.
McKinley's Policies Carried Out.
Taken in connection with President
Roosevelt's announcement. on taking the
oath Of Office in Buffalo. that 1t would be
his aim to continue absolutely unbroken
the policy of President Mckinley for the
peace prosperity and honor of our be-
loved country the real position of Mr..
Mckinley the trust question has
significance that cannot now he ignored.
Another great domestic question that
filled President Mckinley's mind when he
died was the plan of commercial reciproci-'
ty.'' he said. HE felt that he could lift
his party and his country to a new level
of success by extending the principle of
protection to our foreign markets He be-
lieved that our home market could not
consume the products of our prodigious
and constantly increasing powers. and he
looked abroad for new fields and new
victories.
1T was like vision to him. He saw
hot t,ivV, q IN ha