Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-07-28

the conclusion of his speech continued
for some time.
His speech in full Is as follows:
Senator Warner and Gentlemen of
the Committee:
am deeply sensible of the honor
which the Republican national con-
vention has conferred on me in the
nomination which you formally ten
der. accept it with full apprecia-
ton of the responsibility 1t imposes.
Republican strength In Maintenance
Z Of Roosevelt Policies.
Gentlemen, the strength OF the Re-
publican cause in the campaign at
hand is in the fact that we represent
policies essential to the reform of
known abuses to the continuance of
liberty and true prosperity and that
We are determined, as our platform
unequivocally declares, to maintain
them and carry them on. For more
than ten years this country passed
through an epoch of material devel-
opment far beyond any that ever oc-
CURED in the world before. In its
course, certain evils crept in. Some
prominent and influential members of
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 be-
came known. The revelations of the
breaches of trust, the disclosures as
to rebates and discrimination by rail-
ways, the accommodating evidence of
the violation of the antitrust law by
a number Of corporations, the over
issue of stocks and bonds on interstate
railways for the unlawful enriching
of directors and for the purpose of
concentrating control of railways in
one management. all quickened the
conscience Of the people and brought
on a moral awakening among them
that boded well for the future of the
country.
What Roosevelt Has Done
The man who formulated the ex-
preston of the popular conscience
and who led the movement for prac-
tical reform was Theodore Roosevelt
He laid down the doctrine that the
rich violator OF the law should be as
amenabe to restraint and punish
ment as the offender without wealth
and without influence, and he pro-
ceeded by recommending legislation
anu directing executive action to
make that principle good in actual
performance. He secured the passage
of the so-called rate bill designed
more effectively to restrain excessive
ana fix reasonable rates, and to pun
ish secret rebates and Determinations
which had been general in the prac-
tice OF the railroads, and which had
done much to enable unlawful trusts
TO drive out Of business their compet-
itors. 1t secured much closer super
vision of railway transactions and
brought within the operation of the
same statute express companies,
sleeping car companies, fast freight
and refrigerator lines, terminal rail-
roads and pipe lines and forbade in
future the combination OF he trans
portation and shipping business under
one control in order to avoid undue
discrimination.
President Roosevelt directed suits
to be brought and prosecutions to be
Instituted under the antitrust law.
TO enforce its provisions against the
most powerful of the Industrial cor
porations. He pressed to passage the
pure food law and the meat inspec-
tion law in the interest of the health
of the public, clean business meth
DDS and great ultimate benefit to the
trades themselves. He recommended
the passage OF law, which the Re-
publican convention has since spe-
officially approved, restricting the fu-
ture issue Of stocks and bonds by in
terstate railways TO such as may be