The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-04


who gives his name as j. 4. Walgrcn
asks in & pointed communication to
that paper, ''What Has Roosevelt
Done!' His query, in full, is as fol
lows:
Mr.. Elihu Root, whose knowledge is
greater and whose judgment is probably
better than that OF any other man on that
| point. says President Taft has really
accomplished more In progressive policies
| In few months than Mr., Roosevelt did
during his whole term The hue and cry
OF the latter against predatory trusts be-
| Tore the people had for It's net result OF
| his incumbcncy few paltry thousa nd
dollars worth Of fines. for the collection
OF which millions of public moneys had
| been expended.
| That Mr.. Roosevelt performed many
valuable services for the nation is admit
| ted. There is not a blookhead or CRATER
| in the land who could exercise the trc-
| nendouS power of the president for so
| many years without doing some good. He
| came TO Washington and surrounded him
self with cabinet of trust lawyers and
politicians. not one OF whom was an ar
dent and sincere worker for my poll
cies.''
| served for four years in the immgira-
| ton service and personally know that
| from Ellis island TO Vancouver il was
one continuous net OF political drag in
competency. waste outrageous treatment
ana Illegal handling Of immigrants. and
on me whole q preposterous farce. In
proof OF this did not Secretary NapeI q
man chosen by Taft for his ability and
honesty OF purpose, find II necessary to
clean the Ausean sta bles and discharge
ana discipiine hundreds of incompetent OF
nciaIs whom Roosevelt had blanketcd I'M
der CIVIL service without ans examination
after having been placed on the paw rolls
temporarily solely on account OF pull?
Roosevelt did not hesitate TO apply tho
steam roller methods TO name ks snr-
cessor the greatest offensc ever commit
Ted against The constitution. VIII he bcc
ltatn TO take that for which he has been
piaEing ever since he left our midst to
dictate to the human race in general a
bit while he was waiting? "BulIy.'
We think that statement sizes tbo
matter up pretty well, and it is also
key to other matters of the same sort
that Roosevelt has done. Throughout
this western country, Roosevelt Is
policy was to reward his friends and
punish his enemies, through the use of
the courts and the laws. His friends
could do no wrong; there was no sucb
thing as their lnfrln"ing on the public
domain, either by fencing it, or cutting
timber or by unlawful grazing. But
when any man that Roosevelt did NOT
like was caught on ono or more of
these propositions. il was a different
matter, He bounded Senator MircbeII
to his death for doing what practically
al the Senators and II majority ofi
the members of the House Of Repre-
sentatives do babitualy. He had Sen.
ator Burton of Kansas convicted under
an obsolete statute for doing what is
common practice among members OF
Congress in both Houses in Washing.
ton. He appointed as United States
District Attorney in Utah n man who
had been active as LAWYER I'm
counseling clients that they might law |
fully enter coal lands, the entry of !
which was declared later on 10 he
fraudulent This appointed was subse.
duently called on officially to prosecute
those who had done as he, as a LAWYER.
had advised his clients they could law
fully, do. Naturally, the prosecutions
failed, and the Government made a
miserable fiasco of what was trumpeted
as great compromise To the ad |
vantage OF the public. The coal com.
pany was compelled to buy, for
S200,OOo. land worth about twenty five
times that sum. And that was the sort
of compromise that resulted from q
Roosevelt policy. II is time. indeed.
that the American people woke up aud |