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toned; the fortifcation of Hawaii and
the maintenance of the present status
in the Philippines.
Steers Middle Course.
Another attitude of the president,
which he has even more frankly and
copiously avowed than his allegiance
to the Hamiltonian theory. is essential
! to an understanding of the man and
his program. It is the avoidance of
| extremes-extremes of policy, that is,
if not of language. He is neither a
reactionary nor radical, but steers
middle course He candidly admits
that he has taken up some reforms to
forestall their being adopted later in
more pronounced guise. He warned
the railroads that if they refused to
accept government regulation they
might be forced to face the alterna-
tive Of government ownership. He
charged the trusts that if they did not
accede to his moderate proposals an
aroused public some day would force
moderate. In the struggle between
capital and labor he has assailed both
sides with equal vigor wherever he
thought either went too far. He was
quite impartial in throwing verbal
bricks at "the malefactor of great
wealth. and the supporter Of the boy
| colt.
president plays no favorites His COM
pliments are like the rain in that they
fall on the just and the unjust. Today
| it is a United States senator he i'm
pales, tomorrow a labor leader and the
next day railroad king. The author
of nature stories gets his, as do the
| editor and the man who attempts to
quote presidential utterances
| In the matter of diplomacy and of
foreign relations the Roosevelt admin
istration has challenged the attention
| Of the world. Maintaining the integ-
| rity Of China, ending the war between
Russia and Japan, forcing Santo Do
mingo to pay her debts, restoring or
| der in Cuba, forcing out Castro in
/! Venezuela the creation of the republic
of Panama and the purchase of the
! part taken by America in the Algeci-
| ras conference and in The Hague
| peace congress, the matter of handling
| the delicate situation with Japan and
| the virtual alliance finally made with
| that country and greatest of all, the
1 forming Of closer union with all the
| American republics-these and many
| other diplomatic results that we have
| brought about, or have aided in bring
| ing about, form notable chapter in
our foreign relations and have given
| President Roosevelt and Secretaries
| Hay and Root worldwide fame. Never
| has America stood higher as world
| power than today. This is chiefly due,
Of course, to the Spanish-American
war and to our growth in population,
wealth and commerce, but diplomacy
| has also had it's part. Whatever we
may think of President Roosevelt at
home. there is no gainsaying his stand
! ing abroad
Secret Of His Power.
Right here we approach the secret
of Roosevelt's power and one of the
| mOSC marked IcatuTeS OIL his dumlllS-
tration, factor that must be taken
into consideration in any estimate Of
| the man and his policies. It is his
personal popularity, popularity that
has extended far beyond the bounds
Of his own land. Explain it as we
may, the fact exists. 1t is that which
has enabled this president to break so
many precedents, to oppose large COM
binations OF capital, to castigate con-
gress and the courts, to force through
new measures and bring others to the
forefront and finally to name bis own
successor, thing that has never been
| done before, at least so openly, in
American history. The one thing that
has enabled the president to accom-
/ plish these results has been that the
/ people were behind him. At least he
made his opponents think SO, which
/ amounted to the same thing. A strik-
ing Illustration appeared but a few
days ago. There is no doubt that the
] entire American congress was bitterly