Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-10
FiUe Minutes A Day
With Our Presidents
The Sannre Deal.
by JAMES MORGAN.

At the cracking OF a twig In the
still depths of the Adirondack Noun
ltatns Roosevelt urned to see a guide
looming out of the woods with the un-
expected news that McKinley's CON
dition was worse. Although he hastened
to Buffalo. the President died 1s hours
before the Vice President arrived.
The new President requested all the
members OF the Cabinet to remain In
lohice, and he pledged himself to con-
Itinue unchanged the policies of his
predecessor. He did not mean to be
either a Tyler or a Johnson. Neither
could he be a Mckinley. He was
Roosevelt. and his Administration be-
came his own.
The money magnates and the great
corporations had financed Republican
success in the gold and silver cam
lpaign of 1896 and for four years they
had directed the policies of the party
without question from anyone. Huge
combinations. trusts and mergers were
swiftly bringing into the control of a
email group of men the banks. the
factories. the mines. the forests, the
railroads, the whole economic life of
the country.
Theodore Roosevelt owed nothing to
the men n interests that had been
running the Administration and Con-
gress by long-distance telephone from
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personal gain to make by challenging
this powerful. invisible Government.
The instant popularity that he won i'm
the White House assured his election
to the Presidency. if he would only
keep quiet and not disturb business
But he foresaw the time coming
the people would reassert their
sovereign ascendency and that they
wreck the Republican party IL
1t stood In the way. To guard against
It's meeting that fate and to avert a
uprising. he proceeded 10 I'M
his party.
A bare catalogue of the measures
of Rooseyelt's crowded Administra- |
ton, the first constructive Admins ]
since the CiEil War, must suf-
here; the smashing OF the North
Securities Company which stop
ped the plans for all other railroad
mergers; the Interstate Commerce act
which brought railroad rates under 4
control: the Meat Inspec-
ton act; the Pure Food law; the es- |
adjustment of the Department of
with power TO investigate
and report on the books and business
of corporations; the rescue of lands.
forests and water owe from the fur
encroachments by private inter
ests and their conservation in the Ma
tional interest.
. Each act or legislation was pushed
a balky. reluctant Congress.
the desperate resistance of the
.obby, by the pressure of 81 public
opinion which was almost cruel in the
that Roosevelt could summon
rom It. With it he overwhelmed the
,oal barons of Pennsylvania, who
lightly defied him when he called up
them to arbitrate "A strike which
was causing a fuel famine on the
of winter.
The exploiting interests could not
alarm the country with the cry that
his wealthiest ma in the President
line-wealthiest both at birth and
1t death. the inventory of his estate
otaling S1,0S2-was the enemy of
ZONES wealth and of private property. I
they spread instead. in ominous whis-
,ers. the story that he was going in
'ane and finally that this abstemious
who was always in training as
{ for a prize fight, drank too freely.
At the first appearance in print OF this
after yarn, he jumped on 1t with a
libel suit, and killed 1t forever.