Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-29

amounted TO not less than $4,000, DOC, 600
In the last decade.
President and the Trusts.
The President has made great pretenss
result. In a message delivered to Congress
he said: : = "a
THE Department Of Justice has for the
last four years devoted more attention to
than anything else Much has been accom-
plished; particularly marked has been the
moral effect Of the prosecutions; but It u
incrsasingly evident that there will be q
way Of economic charge. The successful
prosecution OF one device to evade the law
Immediately develops another device to ac-
z not as What L need
rangement, good or bad. which may tend to
restrict competition, but such adequate 50.
pervision and regulation as will prevent any
restriction Of competition through the reg
ulation Of other abuses In no way connected
with restriction Of competition"
Prison Best Cure.
This Is an admission Of failure, and one
does not need to dwell on this admissir-
further than to say that the imprisonment
have more salutary effect than all that
has been done or might have been done 10
this direction during his entire administra-
tion. --'-s.s7 =
Thus, my countrymen, in this view we
have the spectacle Of President urging 4
refractory Congress to pass needed reform
and appealing In vain. or we have another
spectacle. that OF President for the sake
of his own popularity or for the sake Of the
popularity Of his own candidate making q
political play BY urging that Congress do
what he must know 1t would not do and
wish DONE -, 81 l7
The President stands sponsor for Mr..
Taft. He desires that the laborlng man
That those who would have the government
who would revise and reduce the tariff and
destroy the trusts: these should believe that
MI TAFT Is not reactionary but 4 militant
reformer, saturated with his ideas and that
he will carry out my policies" Mr.. Taft
Will have to receive about seven million
votes before he can execute any policy.
Charges Federal Usurpation.
President Roosevelt has constantly clam.
ored for mora law and has frequently dis
regarded laws already on the statute books
He has sometimes arrogated to himself to
say what laws should be enforced and what
should not. He has exercised the unauthor.
ised privilege OF deciding against whom the
immune from prosecution. He insisted on
the punishment of certain railroads and Of
certain men for giving and receiving re-
of the case against one Of his Cabinet on
GERS who had confessed that as an ofacial
OF the railroad he gave rebates to com.
pany IN which he was a stockholder and ON
Il
met until he left with the Presidents rec
concentration for a more lucrative position
as head Of great corporation.
Roosevelt and the Courts.
Indeed, by his defiance Of legal limita.
tions and the safeguard of the constitution
he has done more to fnculcate contempt of
law than all the mobs that have claimed
victims Tor their violence In all the States
The President Is upon an eminence II he
Violates the law. men everywhere know It
II he does not himself respect 1t to the full
extent he robs It Of the reverence that
might be willingly bestowed BY others. IN
this same overbearing spirit he has placed
and kept In office men who were not an
pointed by and with the advice and CON
sent OF the Senate. He has Influenced or
attempted to influence courts and turtles IN
the administration Of public Justice. NOT
only by deciding who should and who should
mot be prosecuted, but by making known his
personal feelings or sympathies between the
prosecution and the accused.
Let us confidently hope that the time
VIII never be ripe for the change Of the
judicial interpretations" II such q time
perish from the earth and royernmsnt ~
caprice will be created on the ruins Of one
established by written constitution,
Mr.. Chairman, delegates, and fellow conn
trymens the time and the occasion; In our
national AFFAIRS impose duty we cannot. If
we would, evade We must 20 ont from
this nall with one heart and determination
to put our loved ship of state on an even
Keel. Ihat Keel has been too long beating
the air. We must bring 1t down into the
deep abiding waters Of the constitution