The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-08-21

Senator y arner and Gentlemen Of
the Committee: am deeply sensible
Of the honor which the Republican Ma
tional Convention has conferred on me
In the nomination which you formally
tender. accept it with full apprecia.
ton OF the responsibility it imposes.
Gentlemen, the strength Of the Re-
publican cause in the campaign at
hand Is in the fact that we represent
the policies essential to the reform of
known abuses, to the continuance of
liberty and true prosperity, and that
we are determined, as our platform IN
equivocally declares, to maintain them
and carry them on. For more than ten
years this country passed through an
epoch of material development far be-
yond any that ever occurred in the
world before. In its course, certain
evils crept in. Some prominent and in
fiuential members of the community,
spurred by financial success and In
their hurry for greater wealth. became
unmindful Of the common rules of
business honesty and fidelity and Of
the limitations imposed by law upon
their action. This became known. The
revelations Of the breaches OF trust,
the disclosures as to rebates and dis.
examinations by railways, the accumu-
lating evidence Of the violation Of the
antitrust law by number Of corpora
tons, the overissue Of stocks and bonds
on interstate railways for the unlawful
enriching Of directors and for the pur-
pose Of concentrating control of rail-
ways In one management, all quick
ened the conscience Of the people, and
brought on moral awakening among
them that BODIED well for the future OF
the country.
What Roosevelt Has Done.
The man who formulated the express
sion of the popular conscience and who
led the movement for practical reform
was Theodore Roosevelt. He laid
down the doctrine that the rich violator
of the law should be as amenable to
restraint and punishment as the Of
fender without wealth and without in
fluence. and he proceeded by recon-
mending legislation and directing ex-
ecutive action to make that principle
good in actual performance.
President Roosevelt directed suits to
be brought and prosecutions to be in
stituted under the antitrust law, to en-
force its provisions against the most
powerful Of the Industrial corporations
He pressed to passage the pure food
law and the meat inspection law tn the
interest Of the health of the public,
clean business methods and great ulti-
mate benefit to the trades themselves.
He recommended the passage Of law.
which the Republican convention has
since specifically approved. restricting
the future issue of stocks and bonds by
railways to such as may be
authorized by Federal authority.
Chief Function Of Next Administration
The chief function of the next Ad-
in my judgment. is dis
tinct from. and a progressive develop
ment Of that which has been performed
by President Roosevelt. The chief
Of the next Administration 10
to complete and perfect the machinery
by which these standards may be main
tanned. by which the lawbreakers may
lie promptly restrained and punished,
but which shall operate with sufficient
accuracy and dispatch to interfere with
legitimate business as little as possible
such machinery Is not now adequate.