The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-10-28
MANY WORKING
MEN HEAR Taft
CANDIDATE T r AVE l. S FROM
GOTHAM TO TROY TALKING
ON PROTECTIVE POLICY.
MAIN TALK AT Y0NKERS
Where Candidate Charged That Bryan
Would Take Protection From Big
Sugar Refneries There if
Elected.

Troy, N. Y, Oct 27--The indus
tries o fthe cities and towns along
the Hudson River from Greater New
York to Troy were made the text 70.
speeches of Taft today TO the people
of these cities and towns.
Bryan spoke in Yonkers yesterday
and saying that he understood that
his distinguished opponent had
charged that the Republican party
had oone nothing for labor, Taft first
asserted that the policies of the Re
publican party had been chiefly deyo
ted 10 the interests of labor, and then
pointed out the protective policy made
possible in the sugar refining indus
try the chief enterprise Of the city.
Certainly Bryan was a bold man
to advocate such views in a town like
Yonkeds." continued Taft, which |
believe is one of the greatest manu-
featuring towns in proportion to its
size in New York, and is dependent
upon the protective system" AS a
sample, Taft said, or the utterly i'm
practical or destructive character of
Bryar's recommendations with refer
ence to economic reforms" he would
cite what Bryan would do with the
Yonkers sugar refinery, assuming, for
argument that the refinery was in a
trust" Taft said:
HE would take off the differential
on sugar-that protection which Is
necessary to enable us to have any
sugar refneries in this country.
1T would cause the establishment
of reiineries in Germany, and all your
population here dependent on this re-
finery would be affected And not
onlg would il DESTROY the trust, but
with 1t the independent refneries."
"The Republican party is just as
much opposed to monopoly as the
Democratic party" announced Taft
later. 1T passed and enforced the
antitrust law. II believes in going
directly at the evil OF monopoly by
punishing men for continuing it, rath-
er than by destroying the Industries
and great combinations of capital that
have much utility, and are of such
benefit to the wage earners. II be.
lieves in stamping out the evil and
not stamping out the corporation
Talrytown, Peekskill and FishkiIl
Landing listened to short speeches
delivered by the candidate from the
rear Of his car. At Foughkeepsie this
afternoon Taft addressed a big crow
in the Collingwood opera house. Here
the candidate reverted to Bryan's IS
sue Shall the People Rule?"
"'Shall the people rule?' has strand.
ed" ne declared. The truth is the
proposition that the people had not
ruled up to this date met with much
ridicule that IL has faded out as an
issue Taft was so much i'm demand
by the imense crowd outside the thea
ter when he emerged that he made n
second speech from the sips of the
Republican headquarters building.
Another brief speech was made az
Hudson. after which the special ran
to Schnectady whore nearly three
hours were occupied by the candidate
In the delivery of three speeches, all
Of them predominant with labor IS
sues. The employees of the American
Locomotive Works were spoken to
first and received the candidate viii
much show Of enthusiasm.
schenectady contains more or
ganized or union men than any town
In the coutry for its size" declared
Taft. and he then proceeded to inform
his hearers of his own labor record,
of labor legislation which the Repub-
lican party had enacted. as compared
with the blank" record of the Demo
cratic party.
The shops Of the General Electric
works we're next visited. From the
stand the thousands Of workmen were
told in detail Of aTn's position on
labor from the time the candidate
was a Judge on the bench, during his
administration in the Philippines. as
secretary Of war. IN charge OF the
Panama Canal and the present prom
ise of interest The third meeting
here was to an audience which pack
I'd the Van Curler Theater and here
again Taft discussed the labor stu
alton as well a. bringing to the fore
the general prosperity issue which he
declared confronted the voters Of the
country