Bisbee daily review., 1908-09-23
ROOSEVELT
ON RECORD OF
LAST SESSION
President Pleads For the Elec-
ton Of Judge Taft and a Re-
publican Congress to Sup
port Him.

pUTl nIlii.
OYSTER BAY, Sept. 22.-The fol
lowing letter written by the president
TO Hon. William B. Mckinley, chair
man of the republican congressional
committee ha sheen given out for
publication
Sycamore Hill, Oyster Bay, n. Y,
September 9, 1908.
My Dear Sir:-I have received your
letter of August 2Sth. agree with all
that you say as to the amount OF ar
firmative and constructive legislation
for the social and economic benefit of
our people which has been accomp-
lished by the congress during the last
seven years. The law establishing a
national system of irrigation was of
vital Importance, and stands in its
line as second only 70 the homestead
law. The interstate commerce law
has been amended so as to make it a
new law, with threshold the efficiency
OF the old law. The enactment or the
pure food law was of almost or quite
equal Importance. The creation OF
Department of Commerce and Labor,
| together with the creation of a Bur
| eau of Corporations, which marks the
| beginning of federal control over the
/ huge corporations doing an interstate
| business, the employers liability law,
the safety appliance law, the law
/ limiting the working hours of railway
/ employees, the meat inspection law,
| the denatured alcohol law, the anti
| rebate law, the laws increasing the
| powers of the department of justice
in dealing with those, regardless of
| wealth and power, who infract the
| law, the law making the government
| liable for injuries to It's employees, the
laws under which the Panama Canal
was acquired and is being built, the
Philippines administration, and the
navy developed, the laws creating q
permanent census bureau and reform
ing the consular service and the sys
TEN of naturalization, the law forbid
ding child labor in the District Of
Columbia, the law providing a com
mission under which our currency sys
TEN can be put on q thoroughly salts
factory basis, the laws for the proper
to arrive in Douglas tomorrow and g
administration of the forest service
. the laws for the admission of Okla
hUna and the development of Alaska
the great appropriations for the de
veIopment of agriculture, the lega
prohibition of campaign contribution
from corporations-all these repre-
, seat but a portion of what has beef
done by congress, and from a recort
of substantial legislative achievement
in harmony with the best and mos
progressive thought of our people.
n 1t is urgently necessary, from tn
: | standpoint of the public interest, Il
t.T= FTxEW = lR14
gress which will support him; AM
, they seek election on a platform
which specifically pledges the party
alike in its executive and Legislative
branches, to continue and develop tn
policies which have peen not mereI
protest but acted upon during thes
seven years. These policies can b.
successfully carried through only b,
the hearty cooperation of the presi
dent and the congress in both It
branches, and 1t is therefore pecu
liarly important that there should OF
tain such harmony between them. T.
: fail to elect Mr.. Taft would be ca
5 lamity to the country; and it woul
: be folly, while electing him, yet at tn
same time to elect a congress hostil
f to him, a congress which under tn
. influence of partisan leadership woul
D be certain to thwart and battle hiI
{ on every possible occasion. To cleo
, Mr.. Taft, and at the same time Z
elect a congress pledged 10 supper
, him, is the only way in which to pei
petuate the policy Of the government
as now carried on. / feel that al
> the aid that can be given to this polio
, by every good citizen should be giyer
for this is far more than merely pal
tisan matter.
Both your committee, and the M
: tional committee, of which Mr.. Hitch
! cock is chairman, are endeavoFing Z
secure the active cooperation on tn
, stump of senators and congressman
party leaders and independent cit
zens generally. I most heartily joil
in uring the Importance of such &C
operation. hope that every disintel
ested private citizen, whose sole cor
Germ in politics Is to have the RICH
kind of man carry out the right kin
of policy, win join in backing up you
committee as well as the nations
, committee in this movement. No SCI
vice is as effective, as valuable, a
the disinterested service gwen IN sue
manner by men whose one concern
for the triumph of the principles
which they believe; and / appeal wit
{ all the strength there is in me to sue
men to give such support.
Sincerely yours.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Hon. VIM. B. Mckinley,
Chairman, Republican Compression
al Committee, ST. James Bulletins