Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-27
MAR ON TRUSTS
 WAS BREWING
 FOR M 'kINLEY
At Time of His Assassination and RooseveIt's Policy Is Carrying It Out, Says a New York Writer.

NEW YORK, May 26.-Had Presi-
 dent Mckinley lived and Roosevelt never become president, there would | just the same have been campaign l against the trusts and President
 Roosevelt's antitrust campaign has ! it's origin in his promise to continue
 the Mckinley policies, according to
 George B. Cortelyou. An article on
 Cortelyou in the June number of ] Pearson's magazine contains an in terview with MT. Cortelyou, whom the author, James Creelman, calls the
 living key" to the wonderful stretch
 of history dominated by the Cleve-
 land, Mckinley and Roosevelt admin | istrations.
 Mckinley Knew the Danger.
 The idea that President Mckinley was blind or indifferent to the condi- tions and abuses growing out of the ] sweeping prosperity which attended 1 the development of large and larger
 forms of business during his admins
 tradon is a mistake into which many
 per sons have fallen" says MT. Cortel- l yod.
 He was wide awake to everything affecting the welfare of this country. But the phenomenal prosperity that 1 had come. even by the beginning of his second term in the white house,
 was so much greater than he had an icipated-Optimist as he was on cv- erything American-that it is no ex-
 aggeration to say he was staggered Dy 1t.
 Prepared to Fight Trusts. He would say, How wonderful it isi How wondeTfuli And yet, in the
 midst of it all, he said, again and again, This trust question has got
 to be taken up in earnest, and soon During his vacation in the last summer of his life, the president
 worked at Canton ou material for a set.es of speeches in which he pro
 posed to develop progressively his Ideas on the extension of our foreign
 trade through the means of reciproei- ty treaties, and had directed the col lection of data on the subject of trusts. ... ..
 By the end of the summer he was
 prepared to deal publicly with both questions on broad scale, and it was his intention to use the first opportun- ity to appeal to his party and the country for support. never saw him
 more determined on anything than on this"
 Death Cut Short His Plans. Currency and tariff laws and the Spanish-American war and the ques-
 tions that arose from it, engulfed him
 in his first term, but with these out
 of the way Mckinley turned to the trust problem, and had he not been assassinated at Buffalo in September, 1901. in a few weeks there would have been inauguTated a war on the
 trusts that had been careful thought over. .-.4r- ... ---- .... Mir. Cortelyou in this interview
 gives an idea of the methods McKin- ley would have pursued in the anti trust campaign.
 Prosperity's Evils the Problem. Mir. Mckinley saw the great on rush of prosperity" he says, "' with evils inseparable from the new con
 ditions. He spoke of them plainly
 and often to those who were nearest
 to him.
 But to deal with them effectively, without shattering the interwoyen
 and delicate fabric of the forces that were cooperating for the welfare or the country-that was the question. | The president talked of it, he worried over it, he slept on it.
 Let no man believe that, realizing as he did the necessity for action, l lest abundance should lead us to
 ruin, any thought of temporizing with
 the evils found lodgment in his mind.
 While at such times he was slow in
 reaching a conclusion, once his mind
 was cleared of its doubts he was ab- soiutely resolute.
 His Position ImmovabIe.
 So, when the necessity for dealing l seriously with the trust question | came into his view, it was plain to be 1 seen that he had taken up within him 1 self a deliberate stand from which
 no one could have moved him had he lived.
 Taken in connection with Presi- | dent RoOseyelt's announcement OH
 taking the oath of office in Buffalo, that it would be his aim to continue absolutely unbroken the policy of | President Mckinley for the peace.
 prosperity and honor of our beloved country the real position of MT. Me 1 Kinley on the trust question has a 1 significance that cannot now be ig- | nored"
 | MatchIess Moral Courage. Now and then" he went on, "I come across evidence of an unfortu- | nate impression that Mir. Mckinley
 was not a man of courage, and that | he was swayed by every passing
 breeze of public opinion. The truth
 is that, after eighteen years of pub 1 lie service, and in associations that have brought me in close contact
 with the boIdest and frmest men ill
 our national life, I cannot recall a
 man with greater moral heroism and l tenacity than Mir. Mckinley. But, while he had courage to an
 almost superlative degree, he was
 naturally cautious, and was always
 anxious to keep the country with him
 as he moved. He deliberated, and as