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Show I, A NEW FORCE, t Tho Provo Enquirer sizes up conditions con-ditions with an optimistic view of tho I future as follows: Tho United States is on the ovo of I a revolution, true it will bo a blood-I blood-I lees one, yet the results will bo as I eat as those achieved where thou-" thou-" lid sands of lives have been tho price d' ll paid Tho spirit of tho revolution is 'd IV the same as in those fought in times II past; tho welfare and tho rights of ll tho people against tho greed and t II usurpation of the powerful few. As ll tho President of tho United States is II the head and front of tho movement H wo may well expect it to become a B force such as has never been felt in H the country along tho same lines boll bo-ll For years tho government and tho IS public havo been considered legltl-89 legltl-89 mate prey by many men and combina-H combina-H tlons of men who havo carried on a Hj Icgatized piracy against tho people and tho government Starting in a H small way thoy havo grown in strength H and methods of evading the law till H at last they havo insidiously under-H under-H rained nearly every branch of com-H com-H merco and placed their seal of power H on most of tho industries of the IV country. So wide in fact has their ll scopo become that a successful fight ffj against them has seemed impossible M and they have won' victory after vic-H vic-H tory whero according to law and jus- tico they should havo been defeated. I3ut a new forco has entered the j Hsts against them now nnd before even tho skirmish lino is reached thoy r commonco to tremble and squirm. For the first time in the history of , our country tho President has inter- ested himself, in a personal way, , with tho great problems of industry and says that fraud and discrlmlna-tions discrlmlna-tions must cease. Ho lias been a fighter all his life and some of his hardest battles were against combinations combina-tions that for years had debauched tho people and laughed, at the efforts mado to bring them to justice, witli impunity. Ho has proven in these battles what an individual can do and now with tho added power and scopo that tho Presidency gives him the regimo of dishonesty may well tremble. trem-ble. His attention has been turned to tho land frauds which havo been going go-ing on for years in the Northwest and a thorough Investigation is promised let tho result bo disastrous to whom it may. With our President there aro no great and small but all are equal before tho law, so wo may ox-pect ox-pect to see justice claim her own. The hardest fight which tho President Presi-dent has yet waged will no doubt bo with tho railroads. They aro so interwoven in-terwoven with tho sinew? of trade, their influence is so widespread and their strength so great that it is almost al-most a superhuman task to bring them to justice or control them. But in Theodore Roosevelt they havo a power to deal with that thoy havo never met before. With him to gen-oral gen-oral tho battlo wo may well expect to seo tho Waterloo of rate discrimination discrimi-nation and tho hundred and ono methods meth-ods used by tho railroads to intlml-dat, intlml-dat, tyrannize and defraud. o |