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Show i If f - " m When Others Failed. BB J Tlicio arc few wlio will not recall BB I the great strike In tlie anthracite coal BB ! Ileitis of Pennsylvania during the win- BB ' tor of 1002, nor will many forget the BB untold suffering occasioned by that BBJ I strike. Thousands of ml dims and BB U their fmulllcs out of employment were BB j suffering Intensely and millions in the BB 'ii cast wcic suffering for coal. The coal BB jj operatois and miners could not get to- BB , gcthcr and things generally wcie In a BB I J bad way. When the efforts of all BB , peacemakers had failed, Piesldent BB ' Roosevelt took up the matter, and It BB was freely predicted that he, too, BB must fall In his ellorls to lestote hai- BB mony. Hut he didn't lull After BB i , , thiecconfeicnceslt wasagieed that BB the nilncis should go to vvoik linme- BB dlately and that the dllleicnces should BB be left to arbitration. BB In wilting of the PiesldeiitSaitioii. BB .Judge OeoigeCiav, of the Supieiue BB Court, said In a New York News- BB payer, Sopteinhei 1, l:i: BB "I hae no hesitation in saving that BB j the Piesldent of the I'nlted Mates BB was confronted in Oetobei, 1'h2, by Bj , the existence ol a crisis moie giae BB and threatening than am that had BB occuned since the Civil War. I mean BBJ that the cessation of mining in t lie BY anthracite coal count n, 'noueht BJ about by the dispute between the BBJ mincisaud those who contiolled the BBJ giealest natuial monopoly In this BBJ country and peiliaps In the vvoild.hsid BBJ biouglit upon more tlian one-half of BJ the Ametleaii people a condition of BJ t deprivation of one of the necessaries BBJ ' of life, and the piobable continuance BJ I of the dispute thieateaed not only the BBJ j comfoilaud health, but tlie safety BBJ ;iud good older of the nation. He was BBJ without legal or constitutional power BJ ' to Inteifeic, but his position as Piesl- BBJ : dent of the I'nlted States gave him BJ an intliicuce, a leadeislilp, as Hist eitl- BBJ -en of the Republic, that enabled him BBJ to appeal to tlie patiiolism and good BBJ i .sense of the patties to the conlioveisy BBJ and to place upon them the moral BBJ coeielou of public opinion to agiee to BBJ an arbitrament of the strike then cx- BBl Istlng and Ihicalcnlug consequences BBJ so dheful to the whole country, lie BBJ aetetl piomptly and courageously, and BBJ in so doing averted the daugcis to BBJ which I liae alluded. BBl "So far fiom Intel ferrlug or Infilng- BBl logon proucit) lights, thel'iesldent's BBJ action tended to consene them. The BBJ peculiar situation as regauls tlie an- BBJ thiaclte coal iulcicst was that they BJ contiolled a natuial monopoly of a BBJ product necessaiy to the comfoitand BBJ to the very life of a large portion of BBJ the people. A piolonged deprivation BBJ of tlie enjoyment of tills uccccsaiy of BBJ life would liaxe tended to piecipitatc BBJ tin attack upon these propeity lights BBB of which you .speak, for, after all, it Is BBB vain to deny that this piopeity, so BJ peculiar in Its conditio!, s, and which BBJ ispiopeily spoken of as "a natuial BBB monopoly." ls4 affected with a public BBB BBB ,. "I tlo not think that any Piesldent BBB I overacted moie wisely, couiageously BBJ or piomptly In a national crisis. Mr. BBB Roosevelt desoives unstiutetl piaisu BBB for what he did." |