Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-03-04


canal This waterway. when finished
will cut very deeply into the rove
uues OF the Pacific railroads.
The situation which confronted the
President was: Shall the United
States acquire canal route by might
or shall there be no canal!
II is question which every citl'
zen must decide for himself whether
! the President acted wisely In making
! national expediency paramount over
Internal ional justice.
That Mr.. Roosevelt In 1903 an
pretended that Senator Hanna " uid
be able 70 defeat his nomination in
1904 Is evidenced by the abstrac. OF
magazine article found below.
which also cyntains some startling
views with regard to the relations
between the wage earners ana IN"
drawers of dividends and prophecy
OF his rnpCpularity when he should
leave the White House.
The article says:
Lindsay Denison. the well known
newspaper and magazine writer. con
tributes to the March number OF The
Circle Magazine u remarkable article,
In which he details hitherto uare-
morted conversation with Theodor"
Roosevelt The conversation t,oN
place at a time when the President
little expected ever to be elected to
his Office, believing that the machine
OF his party had marked him for d. g
trlclion. He throws some interesting
light on the events OF those days. III,
1903. when Odell and Plat first began
their quarrel in New York State. al
the instigation OF Mark Hanna. the
Pr, sident says, for the purpose OF
overthrowing him.
~. YOU have real the New York
newspapers Mr.. Denison quotes him.
You have seen the appearance on the
horizon CT a cloud no bigger than 4
mans hand--a quarrel between Odeli
and Plat. Neither OF them knows.
bm. Hanna is the man who started
them fighting. Sooner or later
will become the bone Of the quarrel
aud subject fer elimination. Then
Indiana will be discovered TO be for
Hanna. reluctant though he may be
TO listen to such call. Other States
will b. in doubt. bu: with New YORK
and Indiana agains, me wouldn't
be foolish to look forward TO being
elected President rf the United
States?'
But continued the President II
At were by any means TO happen. there
are three things l should like to do:
~ should like to see our navy
properly increased and improved. We
must sooner or later have a great
navy or be q subordinate nation.
would like to BE- the sponsor Of an
adequate navy.
Cuba and our other island de-
Tendencies must be started fairly on
the road to freedom. would like
to be the President CT the United
States who signed the papers.
But third. this: The time Is
coming in this country for a read
justment between the wage Garner
and the drawer OF dividends. The
radicals are almost half right. Cor
poration cunning has developed faster
than the Law OF nation OF State. n
is undoubtedly true that corporations
have found ways 20 steal long before
We have found that they were sus'
ceptible Of punishment for theft.
But sooner or later, unless there
is a season Of readjustment. there
will come a riotcus. wicked. murder
Gus day OF atonement. II is true tina.
other fortunes are bring accumulated
honestly but Illegally. There must
come. in the proper growth Of this
nation. a resdjsstnyeRs. II II Is not
70 ccme By sword and powder ana
blood II must come by peaceful COM
| promise. These fools in Wall street
think that they can g on forever!
They cant would like TO be elected
President OF the United States ~
he the buffer between their foolish
ness and the wrath that is surely to
come-unless they sober mp.
1T will be a Shankless job. The
President who attempts IL Will leave
the White House more unpopular
than even Grover Cleveland was
when he left the White House. Bu'
I would like to he that President Of
tho I-nf,ed StatCS