The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
TIME IS RIPE.
Taft Will Come Out Strong Tor
Tariff Revision
In His Keynote Speech at
Columbus, Ohio.
TOPUT THEM IN JAIL.
He Believes Is the Best Way
Handle ViOlaters.
IF tho Laws nocinno6 fn Curh
COPUT THEM IN JAIL.
Of the Laws Designed to Curb
Corporations.

| misunderstanding Secretary Taft is
| giving close attention to the details
| connected with his campaign for the
nomination, just at present he is apply
ing himself particularly to the COM
| pletion of the speech he will deliver
on Monday next at Columbus, o. This
speech will be the keynote of the sec
retary's campaign. 1t will be less an
expression of. the views of the presi-
dent than it will be those of Taft;
though at the same time there is no
question of Mr.. Roosevelt's approval.
Those who have seen 1t say that Mr..
Taft does not falter in handling the
serious problems which are now be-
fore the American people. In the case
OF the tariff, for example, the secre-
tary viii come out squarely for revls-
ion, taking up -courageously the gage
which Senator Foraker recently threw
down, and it will be a kind of revision
that means the lowering of duties.
Counted for Tariff Revision.
In a speech which he delivered at
Bath, Me-, last fall the secretary re-
ferred to the desira bility of modifying
situation and the more he came In
contact with the people the more con-
WINGED he was that the time is ripe for
revision, which will be the first act OF
his administration if elected.
The secretary is a believer in the
amendment of the antitrust law, so as
to make it more effective in ending the
nefariouS operations of the bad cor
porations." But the secretary does not
belong to the class of men who believe
that corporations are "all bad. He
sees in them the natural development
of economic conditions and all he wants
from them is that they shall obey the
laws and give to the people what they
have a right to exact and expect
1t is not likely that John D. Rookie
Teller will obtain much comfort from
the secretary's views of him and his
business conduct. The statement at
tributed to Mr.. Rockefeller that he
would like to see Taft or Hughes made
president probably was not uttered with
any expectation that either one of
these men, If inaugurated, would cease
enforcing the laws. Certainly in the
case of Mr.. Taft it may be said that
there would be no 1etup in the proceed
ipgs against him and the Standard Oil
company.
The secretary has been one of the
men who believed from the beginning
that the most effective way. to prevent
violations of the antitrust and anti
rebate laws was to put in jail the high
officials of the Offending corporations
and thus make an Example which the
men directing the affairs of other cor
porations would heed.
Taft's Friends Elated.
From the time he leaves Washington
Sunday night until he sails from Seattle
September 10 for Japan and the Philip
pines Secretary TAFT VIII pc DuSy max
ing speeches and getting in touch with
the people in various states. There IS
no question that the secretary's friends
are gratified at the progress which has
been made by his candidacy. He is be-
coming the second choice in the IA
vorite sons states, and is developing a
strength in those states which will be
in the nature of a surprise party when
the time for publicity arrives.
There is no doubt that the appoint
ment of E. M. Morgan as postmaster
of New York was dictated by the
Presidents desire to help Taft in the
Empire state. Postmaster General
Meyer who was at the conference at
oyster Bay is one of the most enthusi- |
astic admirers of the secretary of war,
and is leaving no stone unturned in
helping him. This is important, for the
reason that the postal service ramifies
throughout the country, and it has been
generally understood that the friends
of Secretary Cortelyou expected that a |
lively recollection of what he had done
for them when their chief would cause |
the postal employees to stand in line for |
him Mr.. Cortelyou is not a declared |
candidate, but he is a receptive one, and |
is named by a good many politicians as |
possible dark horse.