[Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt]@TWC D-Link bookTheodore Roosevelt CHAPTER X 80/85
We think President Roosevelt is right. "There are strong and convincing reasons why the President should feel that success is within his grasp.
He has used the opportunities that he found or created, and he has used them with consummate skill and undeniable success. "The President has disarmed all his enemies.
Every weapon they had, new or old, has been taken from them and added to the now unassailable Roosevelt arsenal.
Why should people wonder that Mr.Bryan clings to silver? Has not Mr.Roosevelt absorbed and sequestered every vestige of the Kansas City platform that had a shred of practical value? Suppose that Mr.Bryan had been elected President.
What could he have accomplished compared with what Mr.Roosevelt has accomplished? Will his most passionate followers pretend for one moment that Mr.Bryan could have conceived, much less enforced, any such pursuit of the trusts as that which Mr.Roosevelt has just brought to a triumphant issue? Will Mr.Bryan himself intimate that the Federal courts would have turned to his projects the friendly countenance which they have lent to those of Mr.Roosevelt? "Where is 'government by injunction' gone to? The very emptiness of that once potent phrase is beyond description! A regiment of Bryans could not compete with Mr.Roosevelt in harrying the trusts, in bringing wealth to its knees, and in converting into the palpable actualities of action the wildest dreams of Bryan's campaign orators.
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