The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-10
BEVERIDCE ON TAFT
Indiana Senator and Governor Hughes
of New York Open the Ohio Cam
paign With Rousing Note.
BRYAN The DREAMER,
Taft THE 00ER<

siastic Meeting, Full of Political Fer
vor Marching Clubs and DeIega-
tions From Other States Present.
Youngstown, Ohio, Sept. 5.-The Re-
publican national campaign in Ohio
was opened with great enthusiasm
here this afternoon. A great parade
preceded the meeting. 1t is estimated
that 5000 men were in line. Delega-
lions and marching clubs were present
from several cities in Ohio as well as
some from Pennsylvania and New
York. Senator Beverage was met at
Pittsburg by a marching club and DEL
egation which escorted him to Youngs-
town. Arthur 1. Vorys presided, and
notable speeches were made by Cover
nor Charles H. Hughes and Senator
Beveridge. Bryan the dreamer; Taft
the doer, was the theme of the sena-
tors tribute to the Republican nom
fnee He spoke as follows:
We are midway in an historic move
ment for righteousness written into
law. Shall that movement be carried
out, or wrecked? Its concrete express
sion is the Roosevelt policies. Shall
they be saved or lost? Had the about
facers in both parties who now are
powerless. succeeded, they could not
have wreck I'd the movement, but only
have delayed it. For the people would
have gathered Roadway again until
their purpose was worked out.
But extravagant schemes and emo
tional agitators can wreck it. The
Revolution would have failed had irn
practicable men been in command in
stead of the cautious and wise, yet
daring and determined Washington.
Many a cause has gone down at the
hands of hot-headel and eccentric
friends.
And so today, in the American PEG
pies mighty moral advance, thus far
successfully led by Theodore Roose-
welt, the gPdvest question is whether
we shall place our commanders stan.
dard in the hands of his most trusted
captain, who will lead us safely and
surely along the well-marked course
we are following. or in the hands of
those who will lead us on zig-zag
marches after rash adventures until
the whole movement dissolves in the
peoples disgust and the worlds ridi
Guile.
"By their fruits We shall know them"
Seven years ago we started upon the
great work of modern and humane
legislation that has made the Roose-
welt period historic. In those years We
passed the railroad rate bill, which for
the first time in American history as
serts the principle that the govern
ment OF all the people can and will
regulate those who carry the products
of all the people. We passed the meat
inspection and pure food laws, which
ended the sale of poisoned foods and
adulterated drugs the irrigation law,
which is making fertile the arid West
and will build within our own conti-
productive wealth.
In these seven years we have enact
ed more important laws for the safety,
comfort and welfare Of labor than in
| any two decades since the government
was founded. We passed the employ
ers' liability law, which revolutionized
the heartless rule of the common law
and gives the railroad laborer or his
| family compensation for his injury or
death; the law forbidding railways
from requiring employees to work an
inhuman number of hours without
rest; the safety appliance act, which
not only lessons the danger to life and
limb of employees, but which increases
the safety OF the travelling public. We
passed the Chinese exclusion act,
which keeps coole labor out of the re-
public and diminishes the number of
coolies already here. We passed the
government employees liability law, by
which every man who works for the
government is certain Of compensation
for injury or his family for his death
while in the governments employ.
Bryan Never Thought Of These Laws.
All these are Republican laws Each
OF them is part of that plan of states
manship which seeks to write con-
science and humanity upon our statute
books. Each Of them was opposed Sc
cretly or openly by both Democrats
and Republicans; each of them receiv-
ed both Republican and Democratic
votes. But each of them was urged by
a Republican president, originated by
Republican statesmen. and some of
them were not even thought of outside
the Republican party. For example,
even Mr.. Bryan never dreamed of the
yet that law means more to the health
OF the American people than all the
curious devices he ever proposed.
A Brick at Time.
In these seven historic years we
have also advanced the American
name throughout the world. increased
toward us the good will of nations and
added to our lasting power in inter
national affairs. At home and abroad
our work already done has been so
vast thc OIlU/SptdkS VI IL Will
praise and wonder; but we are mid
way in that work, and the question is
whether We shall go on until we finish
1t. Mr.. Bryan complains that it is not
finished now. But brick at a time is
the way to build house Would you
trust an architect who promised TO
build 1t in the wink of an eye? The in
Simultaneous statesman writes no sound
laws. works no lasting reform. Alad
din rears meme but imaginary palaces
The Tariff.
or the work that remains, the first
Is TO revise the tariff. The tariff we
shall make will protect American in
dustries. and also open foreign mar
kets TO American products. A straight
out revenue tariff is ancient; a single
protective tariff is out of date-we Re
publicans propose to keep up with the
times. AS a straight out revenue tariff
gives everything away to foreign ma
I tiOns and gets nothing In return so