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Show Roosevelt on Trusts. IN HIS SPEECH at Minneapolis on Labor day. President Roosevelt said: "More and more is it evident that the state, and if necessary the nation, has got to possess the right of supervision super-vision and control as regards the fireat corporstions which are its creatures, particularly as regards the great business busi-ness combinations which derive a portion por-tion of their importance from the existence ex-istence of some monopolistic tendency." tenden-cy." , Mr. Roosevelt was then vice presi- dent and as such had little influence in shaping the policy of his party. He i3 now president and in a position to give force -and effect to his views on the trust question. As the chief executive I it is his duty to enforce the law as he finds it sava W. J. Brvan in his "Com- I -ioner." If the present attorney general gen-eral is not willing to carry out his instructions in-structions he can demand his resigna-tian resigna-tian and appoint a new attorney general. gen-eral. He can give no excuse for a failure to enforce the law. When he was exercising authority in New York City ho took the position that a law-ought law-ought either to be enforced or repealed. It ii to be hoped that he will take the , same position now. Not only is he in control of the executive ex-ecutive branch of the government, but he has a senate, house and supreme court in political harmony with him. If existing laws are not sufficient, he has the power of recommendation and can propose measures sufficiently severe se-vere to give to the people the protection protec-tion which he admits to be needed. It will be interesting to watch the new president and see whether the hostility to trusts manifested by him when he was laying his plans to capture Iho next Republican convention is increased in-creased or lessened by the responsibilities' responsibil-ities' of the. office to which he aspired. |