Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-08-05

cnatOr warner and Gentlemen oi
 Committee: I am deeply sensibl,
 he honor which the Republican ma.
 al convention has conferred upon
 in the nomination which you for.
 y tender, l accept it with full ap
 iation of the responsibilities it )oscs.
 publican Strength in Maintenance of
 Roosevelt Policies
 entlcmcn, the strength of the Re.
 can cause of the change at hand
 he fact that we represent policies bntial to the reform of known
 scs, to the continuance of liberty
 true prosperity, and that we are
 crmincd as our platform unequivo.
 declares, to maintain them and by them on. For more than ten
 rs this country has passed through
 epoch of material development far
 bond any that ever occurred in the fld before. In it's course certain )s crcpt in. Some prominent and ueniial members of the community, rred by financial success and in ir hurry for greater wealth became hindful of the common rules of busi.
 honesty and fidelity and of the itations imposed by law upon their ion. This became known.
 he revelations of the breaches of
 t.. the disclosures as to rebates and
 Ordinations, and, accommodating ,lcnce of the violation of the anti. kt law by a number of corporations,
 over.issue of stock and bonds on crstate railways for the unlawful iching of directors and for the pur. $c of concentrating control of rail. ys in one management, all quicken.
 the conscience of the people, and ought moral awakening among fm that bodcd well for the future of
 country.
 What Roosevelt Has Done.
 he man who formulated the expres. In of the popular conscience and who
 the movement for practical reform s Theodore Roosevelt. He laid down
 doctrine that the rich violator of
 law should be as amenable to re. aint and punishment as the offender bout wealth and without influence
 he proceeded by recommending leg.
 tion and directing executive action, make that principle good in actual fformance. He secured the passage
 the so.called rate bill. designed Ire effectively to restrain excessive fix reasonable rates and punish fret rebates and determinations ich had been general in tne practice
 the railroads, and which had done ch to enable unlawful trusts to drive | of business their competitors. It fured much closer supervision of the lway transactions and brought with
 the operation of the same statute press companies, sleeping car com nies, fast freight and refrigerator les, terminal railways and pipe lines, d forbade in future the combination the transportation and shipping bus fss under one control in order to bid undue discrimination.
 President Roosevelt directed suits
 be brougnt and prosecutions to be )stituted under the antitrust law to )force its provisions against the most kwcrful of the industrial corporations; {; f pressed 10 passage the pure food Wv and the meat inspection law in )e interest of the health of the public {; |ean business methods and great unti- hte benefit to the trades themselves. |e recommended the passage of a law |hich the Republican convention has |nce specifically approved, restricting be future issue of stocks and bonds by )terstate railroads to such as may he (ed by federal authority. He demon rated to the people. by what he said, k what he recommended to Congress, bd by what he did. the sincerity of his norts to command respect for the law; D secure equity of all before the law nd save the country from the dangers r plutocratic government, toward |hich we were fast tending. In this |ork Mir. Roosevelt has mad the sup |ort and sympathy of the Republican |arty and his chief hope of success m be present controversy must rest upon he confidence which the people of the Ountry have in the sincerity of tho 'arty's declaration in its platform hat it intends to continue the policies Necessary to Devise Some Means of Permanently Securing Progress Made President Roosevelt has set hign tho standard of business morality. The ailroad rate bill was more useful pos ibility, in the immediate moral eifee' if its passage than even in the lega fleet of it's very useful provision from it's enactment dates the volun ary abandonment of the practices o' ebates and discriminations by th' ailroads and the return of their man gers to obedience to law in the hxinI if tariffs. The pure food and meat in pcction laws and the prosecutions di ected by the President under thu antitrust law have had similar mora fleet in the general business commnan ty and it is now common practic Or the great industrial corporations t' consult with the law with a view t' Seeping within its provisions. It ha 'lsO had the effect of protecting and en 'ouraging small and competitive com ,anies so that they have been enabled O do n profitable business.
 But we should be blind to the ordin Try workings of human nature, If VI To not recognize that the moral stand irds set by President Roosevelt WI not continue to be observed by thos whom cupidity and desire for finan ,ial power may tempt until the requ site machinery is introduced to tn aw which shall in its practical opera