The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-12-28
Grave Danger Of Reaction.

One year ago a people welterine
in the midst Of Roosevelt panic had
little heart for Christmas merriment
Factories were shutting down or
running on nalf.tjme Railroads were
laying off train crews and discharg
ing construction gangs. A grand
army of nearly 2.0P9,G0G unemployei
wss rapidly recruit blg, tens OF thou
sands of them not knowing whore the
next mornings breakfast was coming
from. Use lodging-houses of the great
cities were filed with homeless an5
hopeless joh-hunfers The p1th0s %
the bread line was beyond descrip
ton. and the charity societies found
III their magnificent resources mad
cquate to deal with the eases of hu
man want aud human misery present
ci to them.
With MIR. Rcosevelis retirement
from the presidency little more thar
two months Off. the Christmas of 1905
Is so unlike .he Christmas of 1907
that IT seems hardly tho same festival
The election Of calm, same. judi
Cial.minded chief magistrate To sue
coed cowboy autocrat has had it
inspiring effect upon every limo o.
1usiness aud Industry. TAc nation
again faces the future with hope and
confidence.
But in this very hope aud conf
dence lie grave dangers. The evi
dences of reaction are on every hand
Just as the triumph over free silver
In 1896 sent the pendulum swinging
toward corporation government 80
| the end Of RoOseveltism. with all its
| follies and excasses, Is likely to seud
tne pendulum swinging back toward
| corporation government.
Even Mr. Roosevelt himself has
surrendered and proposes 70 emascu
| late the Sherman law which he nev
er attempted impa-tially to enforce
! substituting In It's stead executive
control over all interstate business
| There is no mistaking the signi
\ icance OF the applause which gree;
I'd Ex-Governor Black attack upol
/ the antitrust act at the dinner o
| the New Eng land society. Il repre-
sents too general state of mind. du,
largely to disgust with the Roosevelt
tian methods. Elihu Root, who's,
'adrot mind" as Mr. Hartman said
| was the handspring of all Thomas +
/ ~ -h . nNNNNHNAhi wi 10 dAANh iidIlph
lations, is to represent New York ii
the United States senate. This 1
nore reaction. II is certain that VIII
ever succeeds Phllander c. Knox a
United States senator from Fennsy
ranla will be corporation man an
Mr.. KnoXs mental and political il
ierior. Mr.. Taft is seeking to sen
his brother to the senate from OhiC
although Charles p. Taft is "A corpol
alton manager with none of The qua
ifications for the office when distiI
quisa his staresmanlike rival The,
dore +. Burton. Charles p Taft
J election will be another reactionar
J triumph.
, There is no doubt that the countrl
} Exhausted by seven years OF shriel
, ing turmoil of defamation. OF govern
ment by denuuciatiOn and enforc
) ment of law according 10 executiv
whim. IS crying for peace. hut eve
peace can be purchased al too higa
Z price II II establishes the great co
porations in control Of government
Rooseyeltism is not raiicalism
any sane, rational or intelligent sens
II is a great misfortune that so man
, people confuse the two. Indeed. n
Roosevelt reign of terror has bee
the most dangerous enemy of Tn
rndicalism. for Il has invited the r
action watch now threatens tho cou
a try.