Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-06
Secretary OF War Discusses the
Issues in the Congressional
Campaign
SCORES SAMUEL eoMpsRs
Pays His Respects to Labor Leader
Who is Making Fight on Congress
man LittIefield, Of Maine-Asks That
Roosevelt Be acknowledgements
Tariff.

dience at Alameda hall here last night,
and was given an enthusiastic greet
ing. 1t was Secretary Taft's only ap>
pearance in the Maine campaign He
was introduced by Harold f. SewalL
formerly United States consul at Ha-
waii, whose guest he is while here.
Mr.. Sewall spoke of Secretary Taft as
The probable successor of President
Roosevelt. Today Secretary Taft re-
turned to Muir Bay, canada.
After reviewing the history of trust
legislation, Secretary Taft said:
What Roosevelt Has Done.
The vigorous action which Mr..
Roosevelt has taken against trusts.
thru his attorney general, Messrs.
Knox and Moody, is already beginning
TO show fruit. The paper trust and the
Northerrl Securities trust have been
dissolved. The mere prosecution and
indictment of the sugar trust, OF the
StandasSl iOl trust and of the tobacco
trust have led to changes of methods
Of those organisations, and to an
abandonment of some of the more glar-
Ing determinations in rates and prices
which were the instrumentalities for
preserving monopoly, even before con-
viction has been effected or final judg-
anent' pronounced against them. The
fear of the law has been put into the
hearts of the members of these great
corporations, and this has been due
chiefly to the courage. the determina-
ton and the intense interest of Theo-
dore Roosevelt in the securing of ade-
Quate legislation and its vigorous en-
forceme-nt
& We are nearly half way thru the
second administration Of Mr.. Roose-
welt. The question before the people
OF this country is whether having
elected Mr.. Roosevelt, by an over
whelming majority, to continue as the
chief executive for another term, and
having made him and his party re-
sponsible for the national policies
adopted, both in legislative and in ex-
ecutive' matters, they shall now, by
electing g. democratic congress, express
disapproval of his past course, and
. wailt of confidence In his future
action The campaign involves not
only the award of merit or disa approval
Tor things done, it involves the ques-
ton, Whether the great work which
s Mr.. Roosevelt as the leader of his
party, and with the support of his
party, has entered upon and carried
Tar enough to indicate the possibility
Of successful accomplishment, shall
now be seriously hampered and in a
measure defeated, by returning, as one
OF the co-ordinate branches of the ma
tional legislature. q body anxious for
partisan reasons to embarrass him and
his administration.
Roosevelt as the Issue.
It has been suggested at times, as
z IL it were a ground for criticising the
republican party and the congressman
who now go back to their constituents
for a judgment upon their course, that
they propose to make Mr. Roosevelt
the issue in this campaign. They do
propose to make Mr.. Roosevelt the
issue i'll this campaign because he is
the issue; not in what he has said, but
In what he has done and what the
party has upheld him in doing. The
republican majority in the house and
senate have Loyalty accepted Mr..
RooHevelt's leadership, have approved
his recommendations. and have stood
by him in formulating into legislation
that which should enable him to carry
out his policy Is it wonderful then
that. the republican party asks, and
the republican members of the house
of representatives ask, that the elect
ors of the country in determining
whether republican or democratic
majority shall appear in the next house
of representatives, shall make their
decision turn on the question, do we
approve the course of Theodore Roose-
welt as president of the United States.
or do we disapprove it?" The magic
OF Theodore Roosevelt's name in vim
ming votes, and the deep seated con-
f1dence that the American people have
in his patriotism, in the sincerity Of his
sympathy with all the people, rich and
poor alike, in the courage Of his con-
victions. in his great ability and tre-
n1endous energy, and in his intense in
terest in effecting results which shall
inllre to the benefit of all the people,
ana especially the less fortunate, may
be legitimately used to secure return
of republican house to support and
sustain him for the remainder Of his
a6ministrat ton.
Tariff.
Speaking my individual opinion and
To-. no one else, / believe that since the
passage Of the Dingley bill, there has
been q change in the business condi-
tiens of the country making it wise
and just to revise the schedules of the
existing tariff The sentiment in fav-
or OF revision of the tariff is grow
ing in the republican party, and in
the near future the members of the
party will doubtless be able to agree
OIL al reasonable plan. But the work
OF the present session, which was
pressing in it's urgency, could never
have been accomplished If there had
beer introduced into congress and the
councils of the party the heated dis
cussions certain to arise over the ques-
soon the feeling in favor of revision
snail crystaliZe into action cannot be
f,,retold, but it is certain to come, and
with it those schedules of the tariff
which have inequalities and are ex-
cessive will be readjusted The reas-
enable prospect of revision of the
tariff by the republican party on con-
sentative lines should certainly be
greatly preferred by those who favor
revision and yet believe in the pre-
tecEve system. to legislation which is
always threatened by the incoming
VI democratic congress and a DEM
tDofAtic admins tration under the bat