Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-28
TAFT TELLS OHIO
folks JUST HOW
THEY MUST VOTE
Dark Pictures Painted on the
Democratic Horizon.
WEALTH AND THE TRUSTS
Roosevelt Policy Only to Prevent ans
Restrain Misuse.
REVISION OF TARIFF NECESSARY
Personally, the President Said He Fa,
vored It-Administration Courts
an Investigation.
WEALTH AND THE TRUSTS
Roosevelt Policy Only to Prevent ans
Restrain Misuse.
REVISION OF TARIFF NECESSARY

ScSlSldfy dit opened the Ohio
campaign last evening in a lengthy
address, during which he touched
upon many all-important subjects.
He said, among other things, that
he personally favored a revision Of
the tariff, and pointed out why the
republican party had hesitated to
begin the necessary legislation.
Some pertinent references were
made to Gompers, and he threw
down the gauntlet when he de-
clared that the administration
courted an investigation of all of
its acts since its inception.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, October 27.-william
II. Taft, Secretary of War, made his first
speech in the Ohio campaign here tonight
when he was greeted by large and enthu-
siastic audience. The meeting was held in
Central Armory, which was filed with the
people notwithstanding furious rain and
windstorm which made the night the most
inclement OF the season. Congressman The
odore f. Burton of this city was the first
speaker of the evening. and when he had
concluded Secretary Taft was introduced
and was rendered an ovation.
After the Introduction intended to exclude
local issues from his discussion. the Secre-
tary took up the subject first of trusts.
pointed out that the use of wealth cap
ital was most important in the development
and progress of the country: that the de-
vice of an artificial entity, like a corpora
ton limiting the liability of investors and
offering an opportunity for the amassing OF
the savings of many into a fund which
could be used to build railroads or factories
or other great enterprises, was SO important
to our prosperity that nothing should be
done to discourage 1t, but that the policy OF
President Roosevelt was TO restrain and
prevent the abuse and misuse of corporate
wealth and the privileges of corporations in
the form in which this had manifested itself
in trusts and monopolies.
Needs Revision.
He said that. speaking for himself alone.
he thought. that the period of time which
had elapsed since the passage of the
Dlngley bill had so changed conditions
as to require revision of the present
tariff SO as to remove the inequalities
and excuses; and he thought he saw
capitalization of sentiment in favor OF
that in the republican party which sooner
or later in the near future would result
in a revision lines Of maintaining
system ~ protection; that the tariff al
fected so many industries in all parts OF
the country, In every district, that 1t was
impossible to touch 1t without affecting
legitimHte business interests in which
capital had been invested on the taIth of
81, INT Of tariff A revision
could not take place, therefore, without
affecting some of these interests inJuri-
ously.. This was the reason why tho re-
publican party most reluctant to
take up the question of revision, and the
reason why it was very difficult to secure
unanimous party action thereon. bat in
the Judgment of the speaker 1t was
greatly better to await the probable re-
vision of the tariff by the republican
party on the basis of the system OF pro-
lection than to vote for democratic con-
gressmen who were the candidates or
party which in its st. Louis platform had
declared that protection was the robbery
of the many for the benefit of the few:
that the experience with the Wilson-Gor
man tariff had shown what disaster
could come merely from the fear of the
rude handling of n tariff by democratic
majority and certainly no one wished to
repeat the experience that was had be-
fore and after the Wilson-Gorman act
went into effect.
Supported the President.
The speaker then referred to the other
great statutes which have been passed by
the republican Congress on the recommen-
dation of the President-the meat inspec-
ton bill, the pure food bill. the denatured
alcohol bill-all Of which had been bitterly
opposed by most powerful special interests.
and yet with respect to them all there was
not the slightest difficulty in securing
republican majority in each house in sup
port Of the Presidents view.
The Foreign Policy.
The speaker then referred to tho foreign
policy of the President. the peace of Ports
mouth, the peace of San Salvador and Guate-
mala, effected on the deck of an American
warship. the peace in Cuba. the peace in
San Domingo. the trip Of Secretary Root
around South America to bring all the re-
publics Of this hemisphere In close touch,
and to show that this country was not
undertaking country, but one only anxious
to encourage the growth and prosperity or
its southern neighbors.
The speaker referred to the anti-in5uncuon
hill proposed by Mr.. Gompers and pointed
out the difference between that ana the
Gilbert Injunction BILL which had been rec
commended by the railway trades unions,
and which the President had recommended.
and showed that Mr.. Gompers' bill would
create a privileged class OF law breakers
among the members of the labor unions
which the President did not favor; that the