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Show REACTION IS SURE TO COIIN TIME President Canniff of Nicke) Plate Regards Roosevelt's activity as Harmful flays Pendulum Is Swinging In On( Direction Now, Out Is Sure to Swing Back a Good Deal In Other Direction. Cleveland. President William II CannllT of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad company (Nlcko Plato ) believes In the regulation o: railroads by the nation and Btntc, but regards tho present activities of I'resj Ident Roosevelt ns pmductlvo of harm to tho country In general. Ho think that railroad regulation should ho accompanied ac-companied by liberal conservatism elso ill effects will be felt by the peo pic. "Tho pendulum is swinging In one direction now," said President Can nlff, "but it cannot fall to swing back and when it swings back It is bounc' to sway a good deal In tho other dl rcction. I do not mean by that tha' wo need fear a financial panic, but do mean simply that thcro will bo t retarding of tho progression of thf last flvo years, for which tho countrj will bo tho worse off. "Nations must hnvo their heroes Read back Into history nnd bco whorf Caesar was lauded by his pcoplo ou day and perhaps tho next was railed at. Tho president has struck a key nolo that has met with ready responst on tho pnrt of tho peoplo. It Is no always sano to believo that tho up proval of tho masses Is nssurancj that tho most good Is to como from tho biggest number of pcoplo; for the world often npplauds a man nnd atef on discovers that what they approved has done them no good. "It will not bo long oro tho whole Pltuatlon will bo settled into over running again, but not until after the pendulum has had Its swing a little tho other way." |