The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-12-08

of any Congress- legislation s'VOd
ready ri all times and under ali con
-ceivable conditions 10 uphold IAe
authority and integrity Of the courts
The president admits that interstate
commerce and the Sherman ANTITRUST
act, with their several amendments
are TOO bulky a subject TO be handed
without a special message OF their
own, which he promises to Wrlte
speedily. We can only trust that u
viii not run 10 $4,000 words, like this
present one
The president does not say that MS
advocacy Of postal banks, which ne de
eIares are Of real necessity and entire
,TGcticaDiIity. was first appropriated
y mis- party from the POpulists. He
-eaIizes that the postal bank project
finds powerful opposition IN many
PARTS CT the country but he IS con
vinced-aIong toward the end OF his
message the presidential courage, you
viii notice, has a slight rising-that
the people desire such banks, which
shdu De absolutely safe repositories of
their savings" Wherefore be hopes the
postal hanks will be started within a
year TO offer proper inducement to
ward thrift and saving on the part Of
people OF small means
The president favOTs the ship sub
sidy. which has passed the house once
and the senate more than once. The
profits on foreign mails alone, he
thinks. would ultimately make good
the expenditures for eUIipping the
lines along the Atlantic seaboard and
the eastern coast of South America,
as well as to China, Japan and the
Philippines. But he must by this
time realize that the passage Of a ship
subsidy bill. by this 61st Congress at
least, is about as remote a possibility
as the elimination of the superfUous
cuss words from the normal coDversa-
ton of Uncle Joe Cannon.
The president, as most folks mis-
trusted, sidesteps beautifully when he
gets to national resources, alias
PinchO5 and BaIlinger. He gets around
the very tichltsh proposition that is
doing more than any other problem to
cripple his administration and handi-
cap his expectations of a 1912 conven-
ton majority by promising Congress
another special message. After all. It
may yet turn out that the rotund and
easygoing Mr.. Taft may have as many
of these special messages in his sys-
TEN as the self-suf1ceint and over
wOTdy Mr.. Roosevelt.
The president IS right when he ad-
vises a close and earnest reading OF
the report OF the secretary of agricul-
ture. Mr.. Wilson has produced the
most practical and at the same time
the most optimistic message that ever
was given to the American farmer.
The South has read the report of Mr..
Wilson and the South knows that the
venerable head Of the agricultural
portfolio IS its real friend.
The president believes in the 1913
celebration to mark the 50th arufyer-
sary Of the freedom of the slaves, and
he does not forget to say that prone
inent white people and some prom
inent newspapers in the South are
in this movement an in
terest that is gratifying TO him. He
thinks the preliminary commission Of
seven that the executive should be
empowered to appoint ought % serve
without salary, and in this his position
is we'll taken HfEh-pIicad commits
had a large hand in bankrupt
ng the eXpositions at Buffalo and
jamestown.
The president winds up his rather
lengthy and pOnderous though not par
-icularly clear or helpful greeting TO
1ur federal lawmakers with an ex-
preston Of his belief in the high
state of prosperity Of the country"
5e believes we are On the eve Of
substantial business expansion: thai.
having Just gaTnered 2 harvest -un-
-'N---i ~-f ~ N--t maj hSL value OF our
ericulturaI products. the high prices
which such products bring mean great
prosperity for the farming community.
Ie admits that these soaring prices
mean al Increasing burden .unon
hose classes in the community wFosc
early compensation does not expand
With the Improvement in business and
he general prosperity"
Here. al least we get tho human
ote il the composition Of the big and
-hole-souled- though too often t.ufi
aal in the White House. We still
sick - it that the solicftude NE feels
or the Underpaid thousands to whom
he rising cost of necessary things is
asst becoming too great a burden to
10 borne IS real soIicitude. But MI.
aft is the creature Of the party that
lected him, and that party,s dutifuI
'teh-a-G-earTy man Is Joe Cannon.
'C can see where the president. deep
D his heart, is for a more economical
OvrTTmeur. for tariff love- than ,7r .