Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-02
THE MESSAGE.

THE BISBEE DAILY REVIEW.
 THE MESSAGE.
 Theodore Roosevelt has spoken and today the nation either applauds or reyiles. Chafng as only a man of such remarkable temperament as Roosevelt can chafe, under the sting of adverse comment hurled at him by those whom he has avowed to de stroy, mentally tempest-tost by the efforts of powerful wrongdoers to dis credit. him, his policies and his ad- ministration of those policies, -ARoose- welt, the president, yesterday became Roosevelt. the man, and. casting aside all restraint as the warm red blood of resentment surged through his veins, in words that even now have burned their way into history barred his innermost self to his fellow coun- trymen, advocated what he-Roose- welt, the man-who chances to be president, believes is good for the country, and. in doing so proclaimed himself radical of radicals. It is too early yet to see the visible effects of this message but it cannot but have a powerful effect in shaping the destinies of the politics of the nation. The message leaves the old republi- can party as the world has always known it stranded on a reef from which there is no rescue. Roosevelt and his policies have the ear of the country at present-no one can dis pute that-and either the party of Roosevelt must continue to swallow him and his policies and recognize him as their great leader or they must turn the job over to the demo cracy That they may have to do, anyway, and as a direct outcome of the message of yesterday.
 No more radical propaganda for the guidance of the government has ever been uttered in this country. In ad- vocating government control of rail roads of so exacting nature as to practically mean government owner ship the president has gone many de grees further than Bryan ever dreamed of; yet, for suggesting that ct sometime government control of railroads might become necessary, Bryan has been ridiculed for over a year as a populistic radical and 9 dangerous man. But Roosevelt would extend the supervision over railroads to the extent of fixing rates and ap praising the physical property of the roads so that the rate fixed would only allow the railroads a rather small legal rate of interest Why William R. Hearst in his wildesi flights of frenzy has conceived oi nothing more radical or more fal reaching
 Coming from the reader of She re publican party such declaration ii nothing less than astounding. and w are told that the grave senate yes tertiay received the message in si lence while the house. the populal branch of congress, received it witl demoastration that perhaps never be fore greeted a presidential message Both parties joined in the spplaus' and cheered the message to the echo
 The democrats could well affort to join in the demonstration, for bet ter democracy of the modern typ' could not have come from the pen o Bryan. and the republican member of the house. who are close to tn ear of a constituency that is 10 Roosevelt in and out of panics, could also. well afoTd to cheer such doC trines as the president spoke. But is not conceivable that Senator Aid rich, or Senator Knox, or vice-Presi dent Fairbanks, Or Depew or Plat O any of the rest of the galaxy of cor poration brilliants in the upper hous' could cheer such a message-and the. did not, neither will they in privat applaud 1t. With the people of th' country with Roosevelt in this fight what a landslide would be witnesse' at the coming election should one o the reactionaries come into power a