PERTINENT COMMENT
Pertinent Comment THE President's message is remarkable for its omissions rather than for its contents. It is so neutral in tone, and so large a part of it is given to the recital of unimportant,...
...The only man who can cause a demand for Roosevelt in 1912 is William Howard Taft.—South Bend Tribune...
...With breakfast bacon retailing at 35 cents a pound, this delightful dish is not found on the family table as often as it used to be...
...Glavis appeals from the President to the people...
...In common with the country, The Tribune must await the special messages on conservation, interstate commerce legislation and trust regulation before it can determine whether the President may secure from a Congress, chastened by its summer visit, the social and economic legislation which is required of it.—Chicago Tribune...
...The stress should be laid upon educating the people.—William Allen White...
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...Pushed where—overboard?—Kansas City Star...
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...The tariff dose is a bitter pill, and its sugar coating is the most nauseating part of it, moreover.—Washington Herald...
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...Exposing Good Government 1BELIEVE the work before us is, after all, rather the work of the exposer of good government than the ex-poser of bad government...
...The conservation policies are "to be pushed," Secretary Bal-linger says...
...It is affirmatively rather than negatively that we must succeed...
...Our forest reserve may be seriously endangered by the smoldering fires in the Department of the Interior.—New York Evening Post...
...Roosevelt was in the White House.—Springfield Republican...
...With live hogs selling at 6 and 7 cents a pound there must be a big profit for somebody before the cured meat reaches the consumer.—Pineville (Ky...
...Calhoun will sail for China some time in January, provided it is not found in the meantime that he has ever in his life said anything which could be regarded as indicating that he was not in love with the Japanese.—Chicago Record-Herald...
...He tells an interesting story and one that will confirm in many minds the suspicion that the frauds of the land office have not all been exposed and punished.—Boston Herald...
...James J. Hill, after conferring with the President on the high cost of living, which the astute railroad man regards as the most pressing of all American problems, declared himself unable to tell what can be done about it.—Boston Transcript...
...It is so neutral in tone, and so large a part of it is given to the recital of unimportant, non-controversial, or quasi-controversial diplomatic questions that it reads rather like an English speech from the throne than the message to which our ears are accustomed...
...They are even more doubtful to-day of just where they stand than they ever were when Mr...
...Frankly, this talk of a conspiracy against President Taft and on the part of the "progressives" is tiresome...
...Senator Aldrich is explaining why a central bank would be a good thing and wisely keeping silent on the pleasures of the present cost of living.—Chicago Record-Herald...
...The more people think about it, the more they are convinced that the Street will never hear the "Swan Song" of the Standard Oil Co.—Wall Street Journal...
...Roosevelt is still in Africa, yet all is not peace with the trusts...
Vol. 1 • December 1909 • No. 50
