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Show ROOSEVELT AGAIN INVOKES JHg BIO ICK. t President Roosevelt takes the public Jnto his confidence in a V; 25,000-word note, which The Telegram. gives ioits readers simultane- . "... ' - cusly with its reading in Congress at Washington today. This is Roosevelt's first annual message ince he assumed the Presidential chair by election, his previous occupancy having been .by reason of his accession as y ice-President, following the death of McKinley. In this measure the message assumes a significance of it9 own, which is furtheremphasized by the" declaration heretofore made by him that he would not accept another Presidential nomination. It is therefore a Rooseveltiap message and in it he has cut loose from some of the' traditions that have guided the party of which he is a member. i - ; ' - .. . . . . ...... . . . . The President has committed himself firmly to the doctrine of Government supervision of the large corporations'of the country, par- ticqlarly those ihaown railroadsV and has demanded that. Congress ' sbali pass such restrictive regulations as will keep in chett the use of corpora ted power. He points out the inadequacy of State supervision supervi-sion and asserts that relief from the evils complained of can. only come through the strong arm of the national Government- ' X The President invokes his proverbial "big stick indomestic affairs af-fairs as he did in international controversies. '-':'''f.;''ji:'2. "Until the national Government," he says, "obtains, in some mao-. mao-. ner which the wisdom Of the Congress may suggest, proper control over the big corporations engaged in interstate commerce that lis, over the great majority of the big corporations it will be impossible adequately to deal with these evils." ; - This is the keynote of his message, which will undoubtedly inject an issue into politics which has been lacking, or only tentative, but . it'is doubted if he will be able to call his party unanimously to his support upon it. In fact, it is more than probable that there will be serious divisions in Republican ranks and that if the President wins out it will be by the aid of Democratic votes. ' The burden of his argument is aimed at the regulation of railroad -. ' rafes, and his suggestions have more the appearance of a pronouncement pronounce-ment by William J. Bryan than of a document from the pen of a Republican Re-publican President. There is no doubting, however, that, coming ' from the source it does, the message will be received with much pop-utarTapplause, pop-utarTapplause, while meeting with disfavor from those who have heretofore here-tofore shaped Republican policies. |