The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-10-28
BRYAN'S TARIFF
IDEAS EXPOSED
BY JUDGE TAFT
Republican Nominee Appeals to
Sugar Workers as Those
Helped by Protection
NebraSkanS Plans for Eco
nOmic Reforms Denounced as
Impractical and Destructive
Speech Shows Democrats Are
Not Alone in Opposition to
Mon0pOlies


tries of the cities and towns which
line the banks of the picturesque Hud-
son from Greater New York<to Troy
were made the text of the speeches
of William H. Taft to the people of
these cities and towns today.
Yonkers smiled on the big form of
the Ohioan through heavy shower.
He talked at length to as many as
could get into the largest theater, and
then addressed those who had stood
and waited in the rain, whose number
was even greater.
William ]. Bryan spoke in Yonkers
yesterday and, saying he understood
his distinguished opponent had charged
that the republican, party had done
nothing for labor, Taft first asserted
that the policies of the republican party
had been devoted chiefly to the inter
ests of labor and then pointed out that
with protective policy the sugar re-
fining industry, the chief enterprise of
the city, was made possible.
Certainly, Mr.. Bryan was a bold
man TO advocate such views in a town
like Yonkers." continued Taft, which
l believe is one of the greatest manu-
featuring towns in proportion to its
size in the state of New York, and is
dependent upon the protective system"
PROTECTIVE TARIFF DEFENDED
AS a sample" Taft said, "of the ut
ter impractical, destructive character
of Mr.. Bryan's recommendation with
reference to economic reforms. would
cite what Bryan would do with the
Yonkers sugar refinery, assuming for
argument that the refinery was a
trust
He would take off the differential
on sugar-that protection which is
necessary to enable us to have any sugar
rehneries in this country. 1t would
cause the establishment of refineries in
Germany, and all of your population
here dependent on this refinery Nwould
be affected. And not only would it de-
stroy the trust, but with it the inde-
pendent refineries."
The republican party is just as much
opposed to monopoly as the democratic
party" announced Taft later. 1T passed
and enforced the antitrust law 1t
believes in going directly at the evil of
monopoly by Furnishing men for con-
tinuing it, rather than by destroying
the industries and the great combina-
tions of capital that have much utility
anu are VI SuCtl DeutllL 10 the wage
earners. 1t believes in stamping out
the evil and not stamping out the cor
poration.'
Tarrytown, Peekskill and Fishkill
Landing listened in the rain to short
speeches delivered by the candidate
from the rear of his car. The damp
ness did not seem to dull the ardor of
the citizens. When the Taft special
reached Poughkeepsie at 1 o'clock the
I.
out brightly. He was driven to the
Collinwood opera house. which was
crowded to the very doors.
A class of girls from Vassar college
tried to get" Judge Taft's speech in
shorthand and an enthusiast in the
gallery attracted brief attention by
shouting:
He surely wears the smile that
won't come off
1T will still be there next Tues
day." rejoined Taft, and in his hope
the audience seemed to concur Here
the republican candidate reverted to
Bryan's issue, "Shau the people ruler
EXTRA SPEECH DEMANDED
Shall the people rule? has strand
ed" he declared. The truth is that the
proposition that the people had not
ruled up to this date met with so much
ridicule that it has faded out as an is
sue"
Taft was so much in demand by the
immense crowd outside the theater
when he emerged that he made second
speech from the steps of the republican
headquarters building.
Another brief speech was made at
Hudson after which the special ran to
Schenectady, where nearly three hours
were occupied by the candidate in the
delivery of three speeches, all of them
predominant with the labor issues. The
employees of the American locomotive
works were spoken to first, receiving
the candidate with much show of enthu-
siasm.
Schenectady contains more organized
or union men than any town in the
country for it's size,' declared Taft, and
he then proceeded to inform his hear
ers of his own labor record and of the
labor legislation which the republican
party had enacted, as compared with the
blank record of the democratic party.