Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-06-24

l apart ai. tho outset 's '"' P'''r cb,p carried out, they lead alike to revolution. Between these two cN ,,oucs fine republican president and ,hc republican congress were coinPcI'c' ,, ..,onr and while they advanced stead ,ly. sobcrlv and effectively they were Iobliprd ,o rcpcl inc radical assaults on either hand.
 ycf. notwithstanding all these diih entities. much ha, been accomplished.
 Peoples Response Emphatic.
 The response of the people to the policies urged by the president mas been so emphatic that 1t has been made clear. one for all, that the Government of the United States is never to be dominated by money and financial in. ,erests. and that the political party which permits itself to be ruled by them is thereby doomed to defeat.
 The policy of the republican party, in dealing with these new and formid able aucstious which nave taken con crete form in enormous combinations of capital and in great public service corporations. has been formulated and determined. That policy is to use gov crnmcnt regulation and supervision for the control of corporations and com | binaiions SO that these great and nc ccssary instruments of commerce and business may he preserved aS useful servants and not destroyed because they have threatened to become dan. gcrous masters.
 This policy is the absolute opposite of government ownership and like measures. advocated by our opponents. which tend directly to socialism and to all i,s attendant miscrics and evils.
 It iS in pursuance of this policy, shaped and settled, during the past few years. that old laws have been .n forced and new ones enacted.
 Need of Respect for Law.
 Nothing is more destructive to the respect for law--t the chief bulwark of civilized society-than to place laws upon the statute book in order merely to still public clamor and satisfy tho people but which 1t is never intended to enforce. Tho worst laws imaginable are those which are allowed to rust, unusued. because, if enforced, they might interfere with vested abuses or curb the rich and powerful.
 Inc president has enforced the laws as hc found them on the statute book. For this performance of his sworn du' ty. he has been bitterly attacked, IL was to be expected. Vested abuses an. profitable wrongs cry out loudly when their entrenchments are carried, and some one is sure to be hurt when the bayonets of the law are pushed home. In the great American Electorate, money has few votes but it can com. mand many voices and cause many birds to sing. The result is that the president is the best abused and most popular man in the United States to. day. He has been more abused than any president except Washington, Lin. coln 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 fear. less performance of . 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 republican president have placed new laws upon the statute books, designed to carry out the republican policy of govern. ment regulation in a safe, reasonable and effective manner. The Elkins law. aimed at preferential rebates, which have been the curse of our transporta ton anu our business; the Railroad Rate law, which made the supervision of railroads more effective, and the Pure Food law, which has been, in the highest degree, beneficial to the masses of our people, are all monu. ments of the policy and toe labors O.. tn" republican party.
 Retirement of Roosevelt.
 The president, who has led his party and the people in this great work, re. tires by his own determination, from his high oiiice. on the fourth of March next His refusal of a renomination, dictated by the loftiest motives and by a noble loyalty to American traditions is final and irrevocable. Any one who attempts to use his name as a candi. date for the presidency impugns both his sincerity and his good faith, two of tho presidents greatset and most con. l.s.. ..--