President Roosevelt is well on his campaign of speech-making in answer to his orities, and the reports of his addresses at' the dedication of the Boulder Dam, and at Les Angeles, suggests that the answer to the attacks which were made upon him, is 3 complete insistence upon the success of his policies and a grest degree of optimism as to the future. A review of the work done by Congress shows Ghat, though there were at times incidents which suggested thatthe President had lost hold upon it, ho! maintained his grip fur the greater art. The defeats he met with were few in number and small in compart son with the victories he won Nevertheless there was undoubted ease for him to answer and he has Probably found the best method of doing so by going direct to the People in the manner it was sug-Bested some months ago he would. The significant passage in his speech at Los Angeles, is practically an ad~ mission of one of the charges levelled against him by some of his critics, that he was in fact striving towards the securing of a new social order. He prefers to call it a better one, but in his description of the manner in which political forces are aligned over the matter, it is apparent that over the changes which he con templates his lot is bein the liberals and progressives those of a more conservative frame of mind. His dimiculty with regard to the first two political schools is that while they have the same end. in view they differ us to the manner fu which it shall be reached, Should It be possible to secure-unity in this connection it is more than likely that the President's chances of success the presidential election next year, will be much brighter than they peared a few months ago, But an Joven greater factor operating in that [direction would be an acceleration of the reforms already set afoot, and the more rapid development "of the various means of relief, the slowness of which has given some cause for criticism. The real answer will not bbe found Ju the results of this present speech campaign, for there are stil the days of realization to come, and when the real importance of the huge appropriations passed by Congress during the last session come fully to appreciated—and they are estimated to amount to more than $10,000,000,000—it is by no means im-Erobable that much of the optimism of the President and his immediate [supporters will be considerably modified.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.