The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-24
|DOIhGs IND. EVENTS |.
/ 1t hAHQ|Nl|A|l| CAPITAL
by Herman i. Walker, Special
Correspondent Of the Duluth
Labor World. .:'zsz +


their fences at home or lust sitting
around here and waiting tor the sen
ate to get through SO they can 20
away5for the, summer, there are things
OF big meaning going on at the White
House and In the government depart
n'ents where the machinery Of a new
administration is being set in motion
and regulated for four years.
-. The New Administration,
And. 1t s. a new administration. too.
No doubt about 1t. All that is left
Of the Roosevelt administration is a.
vivid memories: All that is left of
what came to be known as the Roose-
welt, policies are some more memories
g. few rather lonely hold-over officials
and some campaign pledges that are
being kept as much as possible out
Of sight,, William Howard Taft is
president of the United States, and
Roosevelt is In Africa in more senses
than one ! a.
.s, Stand Patters and Radicals.
Men In public life here diagree as
much as they do elsewhere as to
1Taft's administration prom
ises better things than came of Roose-
Velt's. standpatters and conservatives
Of the Cannon-Aldrtch class are cheer
full over the change. Radical and
progressive reforners like La Toilette
and Cu1n1nins are dispirited and pes
simistic. When men who know the
inside Of things national talk about
it. here, though, there is just one hing
they all agree upon as to the Roose-
welt era Of redhot politics, trust-bait-
ing, railroad prodding and reform
messages to congress. That one thing
upon which there is general agreement
Is that Its all overs
....: President TAFT, g.,
Taft wrote less than five-hundred-
word message to congress at the: open
ing OF the special tariff session, where
Roosevelt would have. written a book.
Taft told congress it was up to them
to pass a tariff law such as the coun-
try wanted, but he left. 1t to congress
to write the law. He hasn't sent in
any messages on the subject since.
Roosevelt would have told congress
the kind of law that should be passed,
and would have followed 1t up by
frequent proddings tozhasten. its pas
sage Aside: from any; opinion as tc
the u better effectiveness Of ~:either
method, everybody ADMITS the methods
are different. i 81 .::yssz = $500
r. . ;..@Ths capitalE Quiet. :. ::
7 ina newspaper sense, p washington
quieted down in1med iately after March
"a last; ana l1as7 beens quiet ever since
There Is as j. much disagreement. among
the members Of the big corps Of news
paper correspondents as to the merits
OF the two administrations as there
is among politicians the trust mag
mates and the Wall street interests
but the bulletins in the: newspaper
offices and the Press Club here in:
dictate calm weather, with few storm!
during the next four years.
Administration Methods.
It is semi officially said that tn
Taft tariff message set the pace 70
Taft messages to-: follow, and tina
the man now in the: White Hous'
doesn't intend to propose or urge mucl
legislation during his term, or to b.
| wordy or aggressive concerning tina
he does propose. As to administrative
| methods, the word has gone out tina
the season of squalls and violent dis
turbances Is over. Taft Is man o
peace Just what that may mean t.
the country may be better judged fou
years from now. What It means JUS
now is that there is to be no NOR
pressure from the White House TO
! further regulation of railroads, tina
the trusts are to have a rest from
the period OF litigation they have jus
passed through, and that the big Nm
terests fthe country are to hav
peace" whatever that may nreal
! Following are a few incidents tina
illustrate to some extent what peace
IL to be. * r. -
- Coal and Mineral Lands"
AT tho beginning Of his campaig
for conservation Of natural resource
Roosevelt declared that the remainin
coal and mineral lands in the publ
domain ehould be developed unde
such regulations and restrictions 9
would permit the public to share l
the wealth they: contain. Pendin
the adoption by congress Of such RET
I uAQIRO9lHs INOSSt4H VIuSEeQ Ines
lands withdrawn from public entr
congress has not passed the Law
Roosevelt said should be passed q
this subject, but Taft has restore
t. entry one big tract Of Ignite LAND
| In North Dakota. and It is understoc
ether tracts are to>ne restored: 49,.
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Standard Oil, with the, intent Of DC
stroying the big Rockefeller monopol,
Charles Nagel, 4 former attorney fc
tho Waters@T'ietee branch OF til
Standard o0mbips. u aacretarys Of oon
meroe and labor In the Taft cablne
and. It, Is gossip hero that Herbo1
Knox Smith, chief of the bureau. {
CORPORATIONS, who provided the Roos<
ve1t administrations with most. OF II
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