Show rf i. i i S T TIll THE III BORROWING rnO TROUBLE t Once moro more the Herald has listened to the V t of the tho Tribune and ha the Iho proprietors o of oC Its owners printed an Roosevelt anti editorial Left Let to ordinary political conditions the Herald might bo be expected to print Roosevelt anti editorials But ordinary conditions which the Herald pre pro do not now prevail The party to tends to belong has been seeking railroad regulation b by since the civil war I It e ever means in its power every C j. j 1 has 1 i 1 tr nin In In g to fn the th aggressions o of corporations Ud J tj een I i J O It has been trying to get a square deal for or the poor manfor man I. I for tor the producer and for the tho shipper And here hore is a President n who Iho Is making railroads quit tho the Iniquitous s t rebate system to obe obey the tho law to submit to such regula regula- as is necessary for or tho the protection o of the general in In- In terest of ot the people And nd the Herald Is fighting lighting him That Is what mak makes s an unusual condition t Hero Is one ono paragraph paras from an editorial that you ou might it look for tor In a corporation paper devoted to tho the c Interests o of the magnates against which tho Herald has ha tj been been 1 Inveighing since its establishment Now under the program of oC the President f 9 and amI tho interstate commission a valuation of oC j 1 r these interstate lines would PROBABLY include it only the thc actual outlay and capitalization would be bo limited in future projects t to the actual Investment in investment investment In- In vestment as In the case o of oC national banks There Thele l would bo be no allowance for fOI great risk no reward commanding ability j for courage or 01 initiative or T no no incentive to build lines with the expectation of oC developing dc a region and relying upon that development for ultimate te dividends Alyd And Il it all aU hangs on probably That is the limit of oC their warrant for lighting fighting tho the President They rhey know that he ho I is getting good sove government govern govern- n- n ment for the nation that he is making life tife easier casler for forthe the M common mon people and just as profitable for thc UY rich But the they have got to fight Roosevelt and they have ha nothing better than probably as a peg on which to hang hauS their criticism Left Lct to honest counsel the Herald Heral would be yelling in fn applause for Theodore Roosevelt because ho Is getting setting for foi the country what tho Democratic party part has been trying vainly to get set for tor forty years ears Left to itself the Herald would be doing what thousands and tens of thousands thousand of Democrats all over tho the nation are doing today declaring today themselves in favor Cavor of oC the tho President and his policy Left to itself the Herald would woul be discouraging In ing the crusade for or the Iho discrediting of or Roosevelt But It Isn't left to Itself It Is under orders from the Tribune It has to approve and oppose according to orders from its owners It must light fight Roosevelt Roosevelt- not because he is failing in his dut duty or lacking in his service service to l er e. e to tho the people of oC the nation nallon but because o the wants to degrade him to punish him for fOl not putting Tom Toni Kearns back In the United States senate That Is rather a shabby mission for fOl a a. newspaper But It is the mission to which the Herald has been called lIed and the mission it is compelled to fulfill And so so while the tho best Democrats in the country are arc Indorsing tho the Roosevelt program tho the Herald Is playing plain second cond condI I to the Tribune and working Itself Into a rage over ovel what the probable effects of or that policy will be u |