Show illustrates THE SQUARE DEAL president roosevelt has given an tin instance stanco in of fhe the square deal ii in a letter published this week on en we doral ing the attitude pf senator hopkins of illinois 3 on the smoot issue thinks tho the journal of finance at ot new now york tho the president defit who is cour ageous himself likes courage n in other people and it naturally pleased him to 0 note elat senator hop kins idus was willing to brave the storm raised by a large aro number of prejudiced person per ons against tie tle seating of a senator from utah whose whoso only offense awis us that ho lio diff differed erod from them thom in religious iou s belief for two years senator smoot had bad bean been thoroughly investigated by up lifters throughout 0 tho country onti but not one single sla 0 lo blemish blet nish could bo be discovered in his character it was conclusively proven that he ins as not a polygamist nor had bad lie ever advocated nor excused polygamy in all respects ho he wa was r good gooi booi citi citizen and a leader in tho business development and in the moral and intellectual advancement of hi hii i nativa native state many of the die stones thit it wore nvere thrown at senator S smoot moot ap were by persons who them themselves elves lived in glass houses buses the seating e atiniz of senator smoot despite the frei aled opposition to d him was an act not of jus tice tico that aaser deserved ed tho the commendation of all fair persons por sons irrespective of creed or politics only one thing seems seeing absolutely certain about te strike of the telegraph and that Is that the public is getting 0 the worst of it tho the telegraph gr ph Is 1 peculiarly a I 1 public corporation anvid a strike of the lines is much the same tang to tho business busl nes world as though thero should bi general coup of the postal service tho the big telegraph coir panics i will ill not suitor suffer at all by the strike it will merely bo be a question anith etli them of I 1 paying zulu M a few dollars dollar loss in dividends and the officials will not oali a meal less or smoke a cigar ciar ci ar the poorer the operator and their families may suf fer a little considerably perhaps perli aps it if they lose but ohp bu business inese world will huffar a cicat deal and the whole trade of the tho country will bo be hurt burt whether r tho the demands of tho the striking operator oper opera are just or not it is hard to say tho the issue 13 ims all not boon been clearly defined by cither either side both have andul god ged in III the general generalities ties of a man who I 1 is not quite buie sui a ol 01 his lits case but both the operators and the tile companies may bo be sure of one thing and that is thai that they are avins 9 tho the long suffering pucho nearer to government ownership b their family 1 row tho panic tn in wall street 1 Is thin than ovar shadowed by the tall corn that is ripening throughout I 1 the nile six A |