Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1908-09-24
TELIS0F WORK OF
REPUBLICAN PARTY
PRESIDENT TELLS OF LEGISLATIVE
WORK OF PARn-PRESDENT AND
CONGRESS MUST COOPERATE

equalling in political Importance
the one written by the president a
few days ago concerning the rea-
sons why Judge Taft should be
elected, was made public last
night. 1t was addressed to VIM.
B. Mckinley, chairman of the Re-
publican congressional committee,
in reply to an inquiry from Mr..
Mckinley as to what the Republi-
can party had done in the way Of
legislation to entitle it to the votes
of the people at the polls in No
vember. The letter follows:
''Sagamore Hill, Oystor Bay,
N. Y, September 9, 1908.
my Dear Sir:
II have received your letter of
August %. / agree with all that
you say as to the amount Of affirm
ative and constructive legislation
for the social and economic bene-
fit of our people which has been
accomplished by the congress dur
ing the last seven years. The law
establishing a national system OF
irrigation was of vital Importance,
and stands in it's line as second
only to the homestead law. The
interstate commerce law has been
amended so as to make it a new
law. with three-fold the efficiency
of the old law. The enactment OF
the pure food law was OF almost
or quite equal Importance. Inc
creation of the department OF COM
merce and labor, together with the
creation Of a bureau of corpora
tions, which marks the beginning
of federal control over the huge
corporations doing an interstate
business, the employers liability
law, the safety appliance law, the
law limiting the working hours OF
railway employees, the meat lnspec-
tion law, the denatured alcohol
law, the anti-rebate law, the laws
increasing the powers OF the de-
partment of justice in dealing with
those, regardless of wealth and
power, who infract the law, the
law making the government liable
for injuries of its employees, the
laws under which the Panama
canal was acquired and is being
built, the Philippines admins
tered, and the navy developed, the
laws creating a permanent census
bureau and reforming the consular
service and the system of naturall-
zation, the law forbidding child
labor in the District of Columbia,
the law providing a commission
under which our currency system
can be put on a thoroughly salts
factory basis, the laws for the
proper administration of the forest
service, the laws for the admission
of Oklahoma and the development
of Alaska, the great approprla-
tions for the development OF agrl-
culture, the legal prohibition OF
campaign contributions from cor
porations- all these represent but
a portion of what has been done
by congress, and form a record OF
substantial legislative achievement
in harmony with the best and
most progressive thought OF our
people.
''It is urgently necessary, from
the standpoint of the public IN
terest, to elect Mr.. Taft, and a
Republican congress which will
support him; and they seek elec-
ton on a platform which specih-
cally pledges the party, alike in
it's executive and legislative bran
ches, to continue and develop the
policies which have been not mere.
" protest but acted upon during
these seven years. These policies
cn DO successfully carried through
only ~ the hsarty co-operation q
tie preaiid'ent md 1 the e coner ess =