New-York tribune., 1908-09-24

ask that your present plan for regulatinf )he
trusts be judged in connection with your pi paI.
utterances. that you did not believe IN tnelI .
regulation but in their destruction; ana aeaL
in connection with your past utterances TO 'iie
effect that only government ownership py =, o
complicated national and state system OF raiI- m
roads would avail: and again by your past y, "
terances when you proposed to remedy All .iI0
sufferings of our people by deprecla1eo cui s
rency For several years now have been stead,
fastly fighting to secure thorousngoins amu at
far-reac ching control in the interest OF tne puo AZ
over the great business combinations Whlch uo
an interstate business. In this enort haVe
been as much hampered by the extremists, WI
meaning otherwise, who demanded Vlsiol!ats .S >
and mpra acticable radicaliSm, as by those olIel
extremists no less dangerous who stand for the
reactionary refusal 10 remedy any gre sdiIoe. -
One side. the side which am ophgeu 10 soy ~
YOU have placed yourself has shown itself 10
be just much the enemy OF progress t 90 -
other. / hold it entirely natural 1or any eiea. go
law defying corporation to wish to see You
placed in the Presidency rather than Mr.. Iaft.
Your plans to put a stop to the abuses vi 10 IL
corporations are wholly chimerlcal' ,s NV sno
merical your last plan is, you VIII youi seii
If YOU read Governor Hughess speech d.
Youngstown Ohio. To recall to your illlLla "iio'
Governor Hughes said, quote as folo"s'
When ge consider those ss 'RToPese0! ITnEts we
find ourselves j9urneyingo IN shd his 0 wand At
a stroke difficulties disappear and the complex
problems OF modern business are forgotten IN IN; te
portant proposal of Mr. Bryan is that any manu-
featuring or trading corporation engaeea ate ln ont
federal license before il shall be permitted to
which IT deals" and no corporation shall be per
mirted control more than 90 per cent OF .Ie
total amount of any product consumed III 'iie
It might be interesting to inquire what 14s,t is the
States5 Does sit It refer to class OF commodities?
And If So how shall the r,6fa be ef com
merce? And If So what account does TINS pro
1rers who have built up a more less exclusive
trade in particular articles often protected by
In
purpose and seeking the same market? In "a de e.
place an embargo upon honest endeavor whose
zemediesq AID If not what statutory definitions
shall be found to be adequate and just II we lay
of business and not in terms of right and wrong?
If we adopt Mr.. Bryans proposal. TO what period
excess for day or for month to be considered?
or is the pTod9ctio5 for n ea gsfS to be be
which suitable information may be furnished IN
So that at h Know When
he is about to exceed the prescribed ratio? He
duct but how shall he be apprised of the conduct
of others upon which is TO depend his guilt or in
nocence?
Let me repeat that no law-d -defying corporation
has anything to fear from you save what 1t Will
suffer in the general paralysis of business which
any attempt your part to reduce to practice
what you have advocated would bring. This
paralysis would affect the wage worker, the
farmer, the small business man more than it
would affect the great business man. But 1t
would affect the latter too. Therefore / hope
to see this country prosper in material things
will support Mr. Taft. But, above all. l ask for
support for him because he stands for the moral
up1ift of the nation, because his deeds have made
good his words, and because the policies to
which he is committed of immeasureable
alike TO the honor and the interest
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Hon. William Jennings Bryan. Lincoln. Neb.