Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-18

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has been made clear, once Tor all. that
the government of tie United States
IS never to be dominated by money
and financial int. esIs, and that the
political party which permits itself
20 be ruled by them is thereby
doomed to defeat.
The policy of the Republican party,
in dealing with these new and formi
dable questions which have taken
concrete form IN enormous combina-
lions of capital and In great public
seryicec operations. has been form
ulat6d and determined. That policy
is to use government regulation and
supervision FOR the control Of COPPER
atoms and combinations so that these
great and necessary instruments OF
commerce and business may be pre-
served as useful servants and not de
stroyed because they have threatened
to become dangerous matters.
This policy is the absolute opposite
of government ownership and all like
measures, advocated by our oppo-
nents, which tend directly to SocIaE
ism and to all its attendant miseries
and evils.
| In the pursuance Of this policy,
shaped and settled, during the past
/ few years, that old laws have been
Lenforced and new ones enacted.
| Nothing is more destructive TO the
4 respect for law-the chief bulwark of
civilized scciety-than TO place laws
upon the statute book in ordeg merely
! TO still public clamor and satisfy
the people but which it never in
/ tended TO enforce. The worst laws
imaginable are those which are al
lowed to rust, unused, because, if en-
forced, they might interfere with
/ vested abuses or curb the rich and
powerful.
The President has enfo-ced the
/ laws as he found them on the stat
ute book. For this performance of
his sworn duty, he has been bitterly
attacked 1t was to be expected.
| Vested abuses and profitable wrongs
Icry out loudly when their entrench-
ments are carried. and some one is
sure to be hurt when the bayonets
Iof the law are pushed home. In
/ the great American Electorate, mon
ey has few votes but ii can command
many voices and cause many birus
to sing The result is that the
President is the best abused and the
most popular man in the United
( States today. He has been more
abused than any president except
| Washington, Lincoln and Grant He
possesses the love and confidence OF
the American people to a degree
never edualed except by Lincoln and
Washington. May it not be said, in
sober truth, that the fearless per
formances OF a sworn duty is not
without its exceeding great reward?
| But the work has not ceased with
the enforcement of existing laws. A
Republican Congress and Republi-
can President have placed new laws
upon the statute books, designed to
lcarry out the Republican policy or
government regulation in a safe
reasonable and effective manner. Thu
Elkins law, aimed at preferential re-
bates, which have been the curse OF
0ur transportation and our business;
1.-THE Railroad Rate law, which made
the supervision Of railroads more eff
fective, and the Pure Food law, which
has been, in the highest degree, ben
efficient 10 the masses OF our people
are all monuments Of the policy and
the iabors of the Republican party
The President, who has led his
party and the people in this great
work, retires, by his own determine
ltion, from his high office, on the
fourth of March Eext His refusal
Iof a denomination, dictated by the
lOftiest motives and by noble 10y.
Ialty to American traditions, is final
and irTeEocable. Any one, who at
tenpts to use his name as a candi,
date for the presidency fmpuen1
both his sincerity and his good faith,
two of the Presidents greatest and
lmOst conspicuous qualities, upon
which no shadow has ever been cast
THAT man. is no friend to Theodore
Roosevelt and does not cherish his
name and fame, who now, from any
motive, seeks to urge him as a can
didate for the great office which he
has finally declined. The President
das refused what his countryman
would gladly have given him; he says
what he means and means what he
says, and his party and his country
will respect his wishes as they hon.
or mis- high character and great pub
lie service.
| But although the President retfres
ne leaves his policies behind him. To
Ithose policies the Republican party
stands pledged. We must carry out
as We have begun, regardless alike Of
the radicals OF reaction and the rad
icals Of revolution. We must hold
fast TO that which is good while we
make the advances which the times
demand.
We ask for the confidence and sup
port of the American people because
we have met the problems of the da,
land have tried patiently to solve
them. We appeal for votes and FOL
, the power they. confer because we
uphold the Presidents policies and
shall continue to sustain them. W,