Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-17

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two forms of radicalism are as far apart
ut the outset the poles, but. when car
ried. out, they lead alike to revolution.
between these two extremes the repub-
lican President and the republican Con-
greSS were compelled to steer. and while
they advanced steadily. soberly and effect
| lively. they were obliged to repcl the rad
ical assaults on either hand.
! Yet Notwithstanding all these diff
cultieS. much has been accomplished.
The response of the people to the policies
urged by the President has been en-
! phatic that it has been made clear. once
for all, that the government of the United
States is never to be dominated by money
and financial interests. and that the pO-
litical party which permits itself to be
ruled by them is thereby doomed to de-
feat.
Policy Of the Republicans.
THE policy of the republican party in
dealing with these new and formidable
questions which have taken concrete form
! in enormous combinations of capital and
in great public service corporations has
been formulated and determined. That
policy is to use government regulation
and supervision for the control of cor
porations and combinations 80 that these
great and necessary instruments of COM
merce and business may be preserved as
useful servants and not destroyed because
they have threatened to become dangerous
masters.
This policy is the absolute opposite of
government ownership and all like meas
ures advocated by our opponents. which
tend directly TO socialism and all it's at
tendant miseries and evils.
1t Is In pursuance OF this policy shaped
and settled during the past few years
that old laws have ben enforced and
news ones enacted.
Nothing is more destructive to the re-
spect for law-the chief bulwark of civil
lied society-than to place laws upon the
statute book in order merely to still pub
TIC ciamOr and satisfy the people but
which it is never intended to enforce The
worst laws imaginable are those which
are allowed TO rust unused because if en-
forced. they might Interfere with vested
abuses Or curb the rich and powerful
Enforces the Laws.
The President has enforced the laws
as he found them on the statute book,
For this performance of his sworn duty
he has been bitterly attacked 1t was
to be expected. Vested abuses and profit
able wrongs cry out loudly when their
intrenchments are carried. and some one
Is sure 10 be hurt when the bayonets of
the law are pushed home. In the great
American electorate money has few votes,
but 1t can command many voices and
cause many birds 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
degree never equaled except by Lincoln
and Washington. May it not be said
! In sober truth. that the fearless PERFORM
ahce of a sworn duty Is not without its
exceeding great reward?
But the work has not ceased with the
enforcement of existing laws. A repub-
llcan Congress and A republican Presi-
cent have placed new laws upon the
statute books, designed to carry out the
republican policy of government reSula-
ton in a safe, reasonable and effective
manner. The Elkins law, aimed at pref
erent1al rebates, which have been the
curse OF our transportation and our bust
ness: the railroad rate law, which made
the supervision of railroads more effec-
tive, and the pure food law, which has
been i'm the highest degree benefcent to
the masses of our people, are all monu-
! ments of the policy and the labors of the
republican party.
! Retirement Of President.
| THE President, who has led his party
! and the people in this great work, retires
| by his own determination from his high
! Office on the 4th of March next His re-
| fusal of a denomination. dictated by the
| loftiest motives and by noble loyalty to
American traditions. is final and ire
vOcable. ANY one who attempts to use
his name as a candidate for the presi-
dency impugns both his sincerity and his
F., good faith. two of the President s
greatest and most conspicuous qualities,
upon which TO shadow has ever been cast
That man is no friend of Theodore Roose-
I 1fxn- .s.,l, 1t.
fame who now. from any motive. seeks
to urge him as candidate for the great
office which he has finally declined The
President has refused what his country
men 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 honor his
high character and great public service
But. although the President retires, he
leaves his policies behind him. To those
policies the republican party stands
pledged. We must carry out as We have
begun. regardless alike Of the radicals
of reaction and the radicals of revolu-
| ton. We must hold fast to that which
is good while We make the advances
| which the times demand.
We ask for the confidence and support
of the American people because We have
met the problems of the day and have
| tried patiently to solve them. We ap-
peal for votes and for the power they
confer because we uphold the President 8
policies and shall continue to sustain
them. We make our appeal with con-
| fdence because we have a we'll defined
policy and are not, like our opponents.
| fumbling in the dark to find some opinion
| on something.
Believe in Law and Order.
We believe in the maintenance of law
and order and in the support of the courts
in all their rights and dignity. We be-
| lieVe in equal rights for all men, and arc
opposed to special privileges for any
man or any class of men. high or low.
| rich or poor. We, who established the
gold standard. are pledged to the cause
Of sound finance: We stand for protection
to American industry and American
labor. and we will resist all assaults of
free trade under whatever name it comes
disguised. We will see to the defense of
the country. We mean TO have a navy
worthy of the American name We seek
| peace and friendship with all the nations
d. but alliance with none. Yet we have no