The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
TAFT ANNOUNCES
FUTURE POLICIES
President-EIect Says He Wi!
Follow ReoSe veIt'S Lead
TARIFF WILL BE REVISED
Extra Session Is Promised for Pur-
pose of Carrying Out Pledges on
Tariff-The South VIII Be
Remembered.

New York. November 7.-(special.) 1.-THE
World this morning printes the following
statement from William H. Taft, out
lining the policy he will pursue during
his Administrations:
st intend to carry out to the best of
my ability the Roosevelt policies that
work for the correction of evils in bus
mess without running the business itself.
on which the livelihood and happiness of
millions of men and women who have not
furnished the capital depend.
MY record on labor, my attitude to-
ward labor, were misrepresented from tho
beginning of the campaign. believe that
I convinced the intelligent lsboring men
of the country that I had been misrep-
resented. I proved to them that far from
being an enemy of the workingman 1
was not only his friend so long as he
conducted himself within the law, but
that further while on the bench in ain
opinion I laid the foundation for the
prosperous and effective labor union as
it is conducted today.
In Aid of Labor.
st have associated with President
him to devise the legislative remedies that
he could recommend in the cid of labor.
He has honored me by consulting me
every time and I want to say that tho
opposition of Mr.. Gompers and the 9TH
er labor leaders will not turn me aside
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continue the course of President Roose-
velts administration in doing everything
possible to put labor on an equality with
capital and to give labor an equality OF
opportunity in the negotiations between
Them to give labor what we like to be-
lieve belongs to every American citizen
equality of opportunity but no particular
privilege.
Revision of Tariff.
at believe in the revision of the tariff
and shall do what 1 can within the
jurisdiction of the executive office to
bring 1t about. The republican party Is
pledged now to give a thorough and
genuine re-examination and revision of
the tariff, but it has specified exactly the
plan it proposes to pursue. 1t will take
the ullltIcHCe DtlWCtU Tile COSl OIL pTO-
duction here and the cost of production
abroad in the making of any product,
whether of the farm, the factory or
the mill and it will impose a customs
duty equal to that difference in cost of
production. That cost of production is
made up at least of three elenents-the
cost of material, the cost of labor and
the manufacturers profit or interest on
capital. Taking that difference you have
the measure by which the republican
party has pledged itself to revise the
tariff In other words it has pledged
itself to protect every industry and to
give every industry that needs protec-
ton the same opportunity and the same
measure of It,
1.-The next Congress will be called In
extra session Immediately after the adj
journment of the present Congress to
carry out the party's pledge.
1.-The election of a republican Presi-
dent and republican Congress disposes
of the democratic plan to guarantee de-
posits in national banks. l believe that
the next Congress will pass the bill pro-
viding for postal savings banks.
A Word for the South.
~ am very, very glad that l took that
trip into the south. 1t was not taken with
toral votes this year, but 1 wanted to
express personally to the southern peo-
pie my interest in them and their well
fare and to urge them to abandon tradi-
ton and take their proper place in the
affairs of government. 1t is not natural
nor right, as told them, that those who
oppose the governing party should have
the voice in government Of those who
have supported It; but SO far as 1 am able
I shall promote the interests of the south
as well as of the north, the east and
the west. There should be no sectional
lines in this nation and l hope that four
years hence the men of the south who
really believe In the principles of the re-
publican party will have the courage to
depart from the traditions that have led
them to support democracy and that the
solid south will be broken in several
places.
II believe thoroughly that the return
of the republican party to power will
mean the return of prosperity and l can
promise from personal knowledge that SO
far as the power of the next President ex-
tends 1t will mean a square deal to