The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-10

or ChlngS, place our confidence III II4s public servants who show themselves alive to public needs, and courageous and energetic enough to prosecute the offenders to conviction"
 The people, he said, are in favor of protecting the rights of the corporation of labor organization as representing only @ number of people united togeth- CT for a common and lawful object ex- actly as they would protect the rights of an individual and are in favor of protecting the individual against or- ganization.
 The republican party and Theodore Roosevelt" declared MT. Taft, are in favor of the just and equal operation of the law, whether it be by civil suit, by the process of injunction in-equity or by indictment at the bar of criminal court, against the man Who violates the law and another's right, whether he be rich or poor, a corporation president or a wage earner. They are against inn munity from prosecution for violation of law either on the ground that man has money or industrial or political power, or on the ground that he hasn't either"
 He said the record of the republican party shows that the only substantial steps which have really been taken to stop the abuses and oppression attempt ed by the irresponsible holders of great wealth and corporate power have been by the republican party, and there is no more brilliant or successful exponent of this policy than Theodore Roosevelt. His declarations made before the elec- tion are being enforced and being put into practice after the election
 The secretary said the democratic leaders are now indignant that the re- publican party, in carrying out the promises of its platform, is putting into practice the principles which they, with superb complacencN claim are really covered by a democratic patent He declared that the democratic leaders have been for years declaring against corporations, but have instituted no legislative steps in all this time to re- strain the abuses. He said: T ask you to compare democratic promises with republican performances. Incidentally, ponder how much would have been done if MT. Parker had been elected and act ed on his theory that the common law supplied all that was necessary for the suppression of trusts and the abolition of rebates. It may be noted also that, while Mr. Bryan has been most em- phatic and eloquent in his description and denunciation of trusts and abuses of corporate organization and wealth, his suggested remedies for their prompt suppression have been very vague, un- less, indeed, his proposal that the gov ernment buy or condemn all interstate railways with their immense mileage and maintain and operate them is to be regarded as an immediate, ready practical and feasible remedy. In view of this, it is not a matter for any sur- prise that the great combinations and organizations that have increased their profits and power by evil and oppres- sive methods should fear and dislike MT. Roosevelt and his acts in the pres ent much more than they do Mir. Bryan and the indefinite dangers with which he threatens them in the future. Evils are to be suppressed by definite and practical measures, not by oratory or denunciation.'
 Mr. Taft urged that the record of the present congress, enumerating its im- portant enactments, confirms in the most convincing way the claim always made for the republican party that it is an efficient party for the accomplish ment of good, that it does things, and that it carries out its promises. He expressed the hope that the Philippine tariff bill now pending in the senate will be passed at the next session. MT. Taft, after explaining the increases Tn appropriations, declared that, in spite of the increase, there would be a sur plus of S40,OO0,O 900 in the treasury after all the expenditures have been made.
 Another criticism that has been made" said MT, Taft, is that the laws passed have greatly extended the na- tional power and have promoted the centralization of government at Wash ington. In a sense this is true. It is not true that the expansion of power is but it is only true that the national government has taken up- on itself the exercise of greater powers, heretofore unused, but all within the constitutional grant, in order to curb certain evils which were so widely ex- tended across state lines as to make 1t impossible for the state to suppress them" He characterized the democrat lie party as party of negation and in efficiency.
 MT. Taft argued against and reason for returning a democratic majority in the next house, saying, in conclusion, that no party has ever taken more de- cisive steps to restrain the abuses of Irresponsible corporate wealth and power than the republican party and said that, while the administration is straining every nerve to secure compli- ance with the laws, it is prophesied that the champion of this reform, the man who not by words, but by deeds, as president of the United States, has Ishown his adherence to the principles of equal pfoIectlon or the iaWs lo all anu his courage in resisting all claims of special immunity, whether for organiz- ed labor or capital, is to be rebuled and thwarted by the return to congress of a majority of the opposition. Not while the American people admire courage, consistency, high ideals and practical common sense, not while they believe in energy, honesty and Americanism, not while they take man for what he | is and what he does, rather than for