The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-14
ROBERT S. TAYLOR
MAKES ADDRESS
TT. Wayne Jurist Speaks to
Large Audience on Cam
paign Issues
WAS A NOTABLE EVENT
COLUMBIA CLUB AT INDIANAPO-
LIS PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE
DISTINGUISHED INDIANtAN
LAST EVENING-HIS ADDRESS.
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indianapolis, October 13.-The Hon.
Robert S. Taylor of Ft. Wayne, one of
Indiana's most distinguished citizens
addressed a large audience at the
Columbia Club tonight. In part Judge
Taylor said:
There rarely has been a time in
the history of the Republican party
when it was more important to the
welfare of the party, or the country
that it should carry an election than
it is that it shall elect majority of
the next House of Representatives.
The reasons why can be briefly stat
ed.
I'VE have been passing through a
great awakening. We have seen with
horror one exposure after another of
corruption and dishonesty in high
places. We have seen the wealth of
the country accommodating in few
hands in unimaginable sums. Deep
feelings of discomfort are disturbing
the social peace. The doctrines of So
cialism are spreading with startling
rapidity.
For a large part of all this the law
is at fault. It's origin, of course, is in
the natural selfish and greedy i'm
pulses of men. But it is the part of
the law to repress and control those
impulses. This it has failed to do On
the contrary, it has encouraged and
aided them.
1.-The great work of reforming the
law has been auspiciously begun. We
do not yet realize how great an
achievement the passage of the rail-
road rate regulation bill was. In this
/. age of universal exchanges the cost
OF transportation is almost as i'm
Q portant an element in the expense of
living as the cost of production. The
cost of railroad construction and OPP
Grafton all comes out of the people at
last. 1t is all paid in freights and
fares; and the freightS and fares are
all paid by the people
The great fact is that the cost of
railroad transportation is universal
tax from which no one can escape and
of which everyone ought to pay his
just share and no more. The aggrA
gate is a fixed amount. When anyone
shirks payment of his fair share he
increases the burden of someone else.
The man who travels on pass thinks |
company. But he is not in a final
sense; he is riding at the expense of
the passengers who pay their fare.
The abuses which had grown up in
the distribution of this tax we're gross.
By means of discrimination, rebates.
private lines and like devices, the
great shippers were enjoying uncon-
scionable advantages over the smaller
ry.l<- ~; hoe. in,
augurated a far-reaching reform. That
it will accomplish its full purpose
without further legislation on the SUBJ
ject is not to be expected But 1t is
as it stands. the most important law |
in the interest of fair dealing among |
men that was ever passed.
But it is only the beginning. More |
remains to be done that is even more
important and more difficult than |
railroad regulation. We know that the /
President will exert himself to the i
utmost to carry forward the work of |
reform so we'll begun. But he can do
nothing without the cooperation of
the House of Representatives. 1t is
quite to be expected that our Demo
cratic friends will sap to this, Didn't |
the Democrats in the House support
the Presidents reform measures at
the last seSsion-the rate regulation
bill: the pure food bill and the meat
inspection bill?' Certainly they did.
But the situation was one in which
they could not do otherwise without
committing political suicide. The Re-
publicans had a large majority in the i
House. Opposition to the bills by the
Democratic minority would have been
futile.
But the Democratic party in con-
troll of the House would be in a very
different position. 1t would be under
a temptation to use its power to en-
barass its political adversary which
no political party has ever yet been
able TO resist. And this it could do
quite consistently with its party prin-
cipies There is no reform measure .
that | can think of likely to come be- /,
fore the next Congress upon which
and Republicans. would be I
in entire agreement. I
In a word, a Democratic majority (
in the House would be quite certain {
TO avow itself to reform legislation {
and quite as certain to disagree with {
the Republicans as TO the measures {
for accomplishing il. The one sure I
reliance for carrying forward the {
great work of reform so well begun {
under President Roosevelt is in a Pc $
publican House of Representative at a
in the next Congress" 2
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