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Show ROOSEVELT THE MM. Is there a man of responsibility who docs not admire the stand taken by President Roosevelt In regard to the coal strike? With great determination, determina-tion, but also with tact and method at his command he set-to work to end that strike, and that he was successful Isa source of gratification to crcry man, woman and child in this country. The undertaking was one that required re-quired courage, nerve, backbone, combined com-bined with good hard sense and our beloved President has show'n that ho possesses all of these In stifllclcnt degree. We have no desire to claim that the Republican party deserves credit for tills. It was Roosevelt the man who went after tlie coal operators and Induced them to make terms. It was simply the determined effort of one man In his otllclal capacity as head of a great nation In whose hands Is placed tho welfare of a great people, and to that man alone should belong the credit. Mr. Roosevelt has on more than ono occasion proved that he can do things, as well as say things, but this last coup of his lavs all other efforts In tho shade. Nor is the chief executive a man who Is easily blutfcd from a position or dlscougaged because of dlttlciiltlcs. When he made his first attempt to bring the matter to a successful and satisfactory Issue, he was met with such a calm, cool icfusal that It must have discouraged an.vonc but a man of Iron. Not so, however, with Mr. Roosevelt. Instead of backing back-ing down into a back scat, ho was up and after the proposition and in face of all difficulties secured tlie dcsiicd end. This Is the kind of a man at tho head of our government. This Is the man who has said that the trusts will be dealt with as they should be. The fight against the tnists will probably be a longer one and a more stubborn one than the recent tight with the coal operators, but can anyone knowing know-ing Roosevelt's history doubt for one minute that his words will come true? A faction of the Democrats sajs "Trusts" is the Issue. Are the people peo-ple afraid to leave the matter with the present chief executive? We think not. |