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take her sooiis to every part of the world.
Mr. Roosevolt knows that and see this
and fully appreciates the relation of welt
politik to the matter. He could and
should become the Secretary of the de
partment .which controls the fomcnto of
such matters. It is a delight to the
writer, a lover of America, to Imagine
the wonderful benefits h.e could confer
on his country by so dong.
Prince Sourkan evidently means the De
portment bt Commerce and Ijabor. but his
failure to understand the limitations of this
portfolio detracts none from the breadth
and soundness of his suggestion.
WILLIAM E. GHANLER
Ex-Vnlted States Senator.
THE next undertaking for President
Roosevelt after leaving the Presiden
tial chair will be to take the monitor's
stand, from which he may so proceed
as to insure the continuation to perfection'
of his policies.
It was the fortune of Vice-President
Roosevelt, succeeding Mr. McKinley, to
come Into the possession, of the highest
political power at a time when a political
revolt was beginning which was sure, if
not wisely and courageously dealt with,
to produce a revolution . in political
parties, the destruction of the Republican
party and the advent to power of a party
of reform- which should continue in Na
tional power. The result vindicated his
course. The vote for him for President
in 1304 went far beyond that which could
have been obtained for any other candi-
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date, even if known to be a sincere re
former. The Republican reform party remains
in National power and has fulfilled its
promises. Corruption has been assailed,
dishonest men have been driven from
office and punished, and, above all,
predatory wealth has been checked In Its
career of monopoly and corruption. Es
pecially has the ever present, far reach
ing, deeply penetrating and overwhlm
ing power for oppression and evil in busi
ness and in politics of the rail companies
of the country been fought and van
qulshed. The railroads are not alone to
fix their rates for freight or for pas
sengersto charge "all that the traffic"
will bear and to know no masters.
The people and their Government are
the masters, and wherever In thin coun
try there im monopoly, there will be
Governmental control and res;ulntlon.
Republican should understand that
tbere must be no atcps back-ward If the
Republican partr la to remain domi
nant In America.
It is true that It Is impossible to over
look the mistakes and faults of the Presi
dent. In his zeal for accomplishment he
Is too much inclined to enlarge the powers
of the National Government at the expense-
of those of the states. The Repub
lican party was a zealous states' rights
party in 1856, and because it subdued a
rebellion of the Southern states it did
not destroy legitimate states' rights; It
did not change Its orginal principles. It
must be a states' rights party in 1908.
. Other errors the President has com
mitted of which all men take notice. But
he has done things, and not left undone
any great work of the opening century
BRIEFLY, A FUTURE FOR ROOSEVELT.
EDWARD W. BOK His own choice. .
SCOTT C. BONE More of same job.
REPRESENTATIVE J. FBl'RKE President Knox's Secretary of
favy.
ANDREW-CARNEGIE Trip roupd the world. ' ,
GROVER CLEVELAND Must be dignified.
WILLIAM E. CURTIS Senator from New York. ,
REPRESENTATIVE CHAMP CLARK Complete Panama Cana..
' SENATOR CHANDLER Help carry out his policies.
REPRESENTATIVE JOHN DALZELL Governor of Philippines.
P. V. DE GRAW Anything he wants.
COLONEL C. A. EDWARDS Senator for punishment.
FRA-NK H. HITCHCOCK A good rest first.
WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN Lead bank and currency reform.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH Help carry out his policies.
KEIR HARDIE Lead labor reform.
ABRAHAM L. LAWSIIE Complete Panama Canal or navy.
ALVES DE LIMA Something better than Senator.
THOMAS W. LAWSON More of same Job.
GENERAL J. T. M'CLEARY Complete Panama Canal.
SENATOR MALLORY Rehabilitate merchant marine.
PRINCE ALEX SOL'RKAU Rehabilitate merchant marine.
DR. ISIDOR SINGER Trip round the world.
HENRY LITCHFIELD WEST Complete Panama Canal.
WALTER WELLMAN--Complete Panama Canal.
EMPEROR WILLIAM Sustain his policies till re-elected.
JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS Nobody cares what.
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which needed immediate expedition and
accomplishment which he could originate
and press" toward completion. His per
sonal conduct is not now to be in all re
spects an Issue of the next National can
vass, but the essential principles and
large measures of his administration are
to be. an issue, and i the Republican
party is not to fee defeated its platform
must embody those principles and sup
port those measures and other measures
necessary to their position and the can
didate for President must be. a willing,
sincere and unsuspected advocate thereof.
Avantago must not be taken of any
faults of the President to try to give suc
cess to a reactionary Republican move
ment against his achievments, which
movement will be of no avail except to
defeat the platform and the candidate of
the reactionaries. We have under way
such a revolution against political cor
ruptionists. grasping, cruel and brutal
multi-millionaires, vast corporation mon
opolies and monstrous railroad plunder
ers and criminals as I have earnestly
hoped for but dared not expect in my
lifetime. .
Revolutions seldom no backward! at
all events, thin one will not. Kither
under the Republican candidate or Mr.
Rryan, It will be carried to triumphant
completion.
EMPEROR FRANZ JOSEPH
THE following is the permitted utter
ence on Mr. Roosevelt's future made
by the Emperor Franz Josef and trans
mitted by Mr. Francis Wahl:
"President Roosevelt Is a man of en
'during character. It is a pity he Is un
willing to hold office longer. I could wish
that he would accept re-election, but such
a course being against his wishes, he may
retain such an unofficial post as may
permit him to perpetuate his policies.
Representative Champ Clark, of Mis
souri. Public prints have divers sugges
tions, as to the post-Presidential career
of the present occupant of the White
House. Some have suggested that he
come to the United States Senate. If New
York intends to continue in the unfortu
nate habit of electing Republicans to the
United States Senate, then my voice is
for Roosevelt for that position. The sub
sequent proceedings would make what
Horace Greeley would have denominated
"mighty interesting reading." Only two
ex-Presidents have returned to Congress,
John Quincy Adams and Andrew Johnson.
Another suggestion Is that he be presi
dent of Harvard College. I would rather
be president of the University of Missouri
than a member of the House or Senate
or Governor of that imperial common
wealth. If he devoted his life to literature Pres.
ident Roosevelt would have an Immense
audience and make a fortune.
Another suggestion Is that he be per
petual president of The Hague Peace and
Arbitration Tribunal. It is safe to say
he would discharge the functions of that
exalted station with the energy and ca
pacity with which he does everything to
which he turns his hand; and what he
would do to the other peacemakers who
had plans of peace different from his own
would be a plenty. .
Another suggestion is that he be made
genera! manager of the Panama Canal.
Of all propositions that would be to me
the most tempting. To build an Isthmian
canal has been the dream of men since
Balboa first 'looked down in amazement
and delight upon the peaceful ocean, and
if that stupendous .work is a success the
man who accomplishes it will write his
name upon the scanty list of immortals.
Why Shonts or Wallace or any other man
that had a chance to associate his name
with it should relinquish that opportun
ity for any financial inducement what
ever is one of those things which, like
the peace of God; passeth all under
standing. Dr. Isldor Singer. Eminent Bibliogra
pher. I am a sincere admirer of our
President, but for heaven's sake let us
give the man a rest and the opportunity
to read up the tidbits of international
literature on political economy, diplomacy,
transportation, insurance, etc., .which he
has been obliged to forego since the year
1SX and let us finally show that there are
still other men who are able and willing
to carry the various burdens of the Na
tion. Who knows? Mr. Rooseve.lt may plan a
trip around the world similar to that of
the obstinate Presidential candidate Bry
an, and you may be sure that the for
mer President of the United States and
arbitrator of the Russo-Japanese , ar
would be frantically welcomed In Europe
and Asia, and when on his return, ripened
In experience and rested from seven years
of strenuous life, he feels strong enough
to give another four or eight years to his
country, he will have only to raise his
finger to be ushered into the quaint pal
ace of American democracy.
William M. Hoffman There are many
tasks awaiting 6uch able hands, but the
first one. to my mind, is the rescuing of
the country's medium of exchange from
the Jiands of the Shylocks who batten
like vampires on our legitimate produc
tive Industries. First, real money,, every
cent, every piece of paper, every gold
piece, belongs to the Government and is
put forth without interest as a medium
of exchange. What right has any man,
or set of men organized into a bank, to
hold that money out of the currents of
commerce and Industry unless paid from
6 per cent to 120 per cent for the. use of
it by the producers of wealth, who must
have a medium of e-change? Our money
power is part of a world conspiracy,
centuries old and Lombard-bred. It has
no economic or moral right to exist.
Theodore Roosevelt knows the relations
of money; the people of the country will
trust him to do their blacksmithlng if he
will but brave the dragon.
Representative Joseph C. Sibley, of
Pennsylvania There is no room for doubt
that President Roosevelt means what he
says In his last statement and never has
held any 'other determination since his
primary one. Those who are strenuously
Insistent to the contrary are doing him
no honor and are such friends as those
from whom ope might well pray for de
liverance. Four or eight, years from now President
Roosevelt, bound by no pledge and In vio
lation of no unwritten law, doubtless will
be ready to patriotically respond to any
call for public duty. In the meantlma
rest and travel, his favorite sports and
the production of such enduring literature
as he Is capable of may be his choice.
Pennsylvania has a right to demand the
nomination of Senator Knox, than whom
no higher type of statesman has risen
above the political horizon of Pennsyl
vania In 60 years.
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Senator Stephen R. Mallory, of Florida.
When almost anything else in steel can
be built cheaper in the United States
than abroad there is no reason why steel
cargo ships should not be constructed
cheaper. We should build and own more
than half of the deep seagoing ships in
trade, and they should spread our com
merce to every corner ' of tho world. I
know that President Roosevelt under
stands that this development of our Na
tion needs but the shaping and urging of
some power greater than commercial
pressure, and it will begin to grow of its
own- accord. When his term of office is
over President Roosevelt could do his
country no greater service than to use
his brain, energy and powerful follow
ing to upbuild our merchant marine.
Abraham L. Lawslie, of Indiana, for
merly Auditor-General of the Philippines
President Roosevelt Is a young man
and a valuable man. He should not be
permitted to rettre from public life. The
country needs him. I think that his
home state, New York, would make no
mistake in sending him to the United
States Senate. There are many Impor
tant matters which ha has advocated
which will be discussed in the Senate.
There Is the Philippine question, the
building of the Panama Canal, the in
crease of the strength of the Navy, and
manyother questions of groat Import
ance. President Roosevelt would be a
valuable man in the Senate. I repeat'
that my sentiments aro that he is too
young a man and too valuable a man to
be retired from public life. The peoplo
know him and. believe in. him, and where
there Is confidence there Is strength.
Alvor de Lina Since President Roose
velt has made- any consideration of a
third term impossible for his friends, the
world Is, of course, deeply Interested as
to what he will do. Such l the size of
his public figure that anything that he
may do will be a concern for the world
at large. There Is a feeling In the United
States that a man is merely projected
from the state or city in which i.e has
his base. Often men who are ablest in
Congress, failing of election at home
through some ."mall intrigues or local
policy, are cut off from National serv
ice. The President is a New York man
and we hear talk of his being Governor
of New York again, or Senator from
New York. There is bigger work for him
to do in several obvious ways.
JAMES KEIR HARDIE
VITHOUT wishing to pose as a
W prophet , I should say that at the
end of his present term of office President
Roosevelt will merely enter on a four,
years' retirement from official life, for
there are preponderating chances that he
will be returned ttx the Chief Magistracy
of the country In 1912. Any man who has
the confidence of the common people as
has President Roosevelt can wield the
strongest possible Influence In any move
ment for their benefit. There can be no
greater problem than the relation of
classes In the United States, and It is
certain to grow graver. Is it to be hoped
that when he leaves the Presidential chair
he will lead some new movement that will
relieve his country of the growing tension
between its rich and poor citizens, a ten
sion which Is growing in every civilized
land?
General James T. McClcary, of Minne
sotaOne of the great enterprises initi
ated by Mr. Roosevelt and with which
his name will forever be associated is
the construction of the Panama Canal.
Such construction requires technical
knowledge and directive power. The
technical knowledge could well bo fur
nished by persons who are engineers by
profession. It would seem that an hon
orable and congenial work for Mr. Roose
velt would be that of- directing in the
completion of the Panama Caual. '
Charles A. Edwards, secretary ' of the
Democratic Congressional Committee I
would like to see President Roosevelt
elected United States Senator from New
York, where he will receive what is coin
ing to him. Those people in the Senate
are very brainy, and they will show him
a few things which he has not learned
during his occupancy of the Presidential
chalt.
Representative and Senator-Elect John
Sharp Williams, of Mississippi. 1 don't
believe the country is any more interested
in what becomes of an ex-President of
the United States than it is in tho future
iConcluded on I'age 11.)