The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-10
Henry Clews Optimistic
In His View of New
Administration.

NEW YORK, March 6,-(SpeciaD-
The coming of the new administration
will have a soothing effect upon the
Mr. Roosevelt introduced many reforms
that were necessary for public welfare,
and pushed them with a vigor that
was often unsettling to vested inter-
ests. Certain tendencies arising from
an undue concentration of wealth were
threatening the political horizon, and
10 matter who undertook the initfatiN e
I'm restraining or regulating them the
effect was sure to be disturbing. Yet
the purposes of Mr.. Roosevelt were
always of a high order, and with few
exceptions were conducive to public
good. 1t is safe to say that Mr.. ROose-
Welt will go down into history as one
of our greatest presidents, ranking
close TO Washington and Lincoln; but
his methods of carrying out these pur-
poses were, as already said, often very
Irritating and unsettling. So long as
these restraints had to be applied it is
perhaps as we'll that their initiation
should have fallen into the hands of
MFR. Roosevelt. for it is easily con-
ceivable that had the task been under
taken by one of less force and more
radical the end might have been dis
astrous. Our ex-president's policies,
were never destructive; they were al
ways progressive, and have done more
cIalism than any movement that the
country has ever experienced. AS soon
as the dust of conflict subsidies, a
clearer vision of Mr. Roosevelt's CHAR
acter will be obtained; and ten years
hence it is safe to say that he will
have attained a much higher position
I'm the regard of his fellow country
men than he holds at the present time.
The country is fortunate in having a
successor who will continue these pol
icies in a firm but more tactful and
judicious manner President Taft's
ideas and methods are we'll under
stood. He has the faculty Of winning
by attraction rather than compulsion,
and now that the current OF reform has
been turned in the direction IN which
he distinctly led there is every reason
to expect a healthy progress in poll
teal developments.
Need Large Crops.
One of the country's greatest needs
at this time is large crops, and much
depends upon the next harvest A poor
yield will surely prolong depression and
bring much hardship among the work
an incalculable advantage and do much
towards insuring a return to real pros
be largely attributed to the high prices
prevailing for agricultural products.
Wheat, flour, oats, hay. meats, vege-
tables. butter, eggs, etc, are all I'M
usually expensive because there is not
a Observation-Disclosures of these articles
TO keep prices at a more normal level.
Available supplies are so limited, and
cheap money so abundant that I'M
healthy speculation is fostered 1t is
altogether too easy to corner the mar
kets. The only cure for this situa-
ton is larger crops the world over
and higher rates for money 1t is gen
orally recognized that the growth of
agriculture, especially in the United
States, has not kept pace with the
growth of population, partly because of
.he drift towards the great cities The
result is that today our farmers as
class are the most prosperous people
in the country; in fact, they have had
several years of prosperity, and the
prospects are that this will continue
Cor some time to come. No one be-
2rudges our agricultural classes their
good fortune, for they have been, and
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