The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
THE TAFT SIDE /,
By the Rev. W. S. Grove

--y friend Mr.. Kenny, says Taft should not be elected BECAUSE he :
WI fails tic advocate the popular election of United States senators. !
Iva He claims that senators would nt be ruled by trusts If tay I
we're elected by the direct vote of the people. Well or State Legislators Z
are elected by the direct vote of the people. Who rules them when they
elect senators in the interest of the trusts? If popular election Is oustn-
cation, why do u State Legislators turnt traitors? The aldermen o New
York and San Francisco have always been elected y popular VOTE. nase
they been models of probity and economy? !
Mr.. Kenny says Taft should not be elected because he does not advo-
cate the income tax. Mr.. Taft is aware that a personal properly taA
causes about all the lying that a nations morality can endure; that IN
income a. would make lying too common for struggling remnant OF
moral countenance. 1t is simply impossible to In ut what cope M
comes are. The scheme is a N idle fancy. !
Mr.. Kenny says Taft should not be elected because the Republican
party cannot be relied upon to serve the common people fairly. The Re-
publican party could be relied upon to free a rae of slaves, and to give
wage-earners the market of all the States, instead of simply the Northern
States, for their labor and their products The Republican party could be
relied upon to make the homestead law, which put millions of poor men
in the way If owning farms. The Republican party could be relied upon
to foster thu nohest manufacturing system on ear'h anu "ne INC 'ap''
and the enterprise and the skilled labor Of all the world into our business
and make us the great creditor nation. The Republican party could be
relied upon to pay our wr debt in c%n' as agreed N 10 put US 70 'e
world wide disgrace of reputation, and thus prevent h Investment IL
billions of money in the enterprises which give our worhmen the best
wages in tn world. h Republican party QUIZ oe feneu up" :" NAM
land grants of agricultural and technical colleges in every State OF the
Union and give u laborers the scientific education which doubles and
quadrupies tn value Oh ther aoor Ie epuonoa pa's oo"u oe ie~u
upon to free Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philippines from a corrupt
ing tyranny and put them o the highway to a noble civilization. The
Republican party could be relied upon to build the Panama canal. to
enforce the Monroe Doctrine. to saw the nation from the financial idiocy
crazy bunder of government ownership of railroads. The Republican
party could be relied upon % to administer the national affairs as to In
pi 80. en.. us " Jus :" "a 49, Cent ut ~ o,otht,a - Whit nsrtv
could be relied upon tic bring suits against 1870 corporations for violating
nov he rausd mon IN - vent Of his election. to keen PRESIDENT BRYAN
from destroying the business of the country. 1t is a funny reason Tor In
staning a new captain-that the subordinate officers would do their best
t. prevent him from smashing the ship OF state O a reef but he would
have the army and the navy and the treasury and the diplomatic corps
and the veto at his command, and with these great forces he could make
infinite trouble.
We are told that ME- Taft should lot be elected because h enforced
a certain injunction. 1t was Judge Taft who established the legality of
the strike, whose decisions from the bench long ago gave labor unions the
liberty and right to fight a strike to the bitter end with any and all
weapons of civilized industrial warfare. What he enjoined a the savage
warfare tic which Debs reverted. Away back in the Dark Ages. when a
rebel prince could not win a outlying castle from his king by manly
battle he would capture women and children and murder them, If they
were lot ransomed by the gift of the castle. Mr. Debs a in a fight with
George Pullman, and an quite freet to say that m sympathies were
with Debs until he adopted the savag mode of warfare. When he could
not win o the open field he tied up the railroads of a dozen States and
began the systematic starvation of several millions of people who were
not engaged in the fray. A principle of civilized warfare is that the rights
of neunas must be respected. A principle of common humanity is that
milk trains shall be allowed to ave the lives Of children. The brutality
of Dbss warfare vas leaving the groceries and the markets without food
and that sort of injunction had to stand. Mr.. Gompers says that Mr..
Debs should have been allowed to kill anybody's business, and kill more
babies than Herod, while the injunction wa held off, and Mr.. Gompers
says that his friend Bryan agrees with him. :