Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-26

the issue Is whether he shall be re-
turned 1t must be determined IL this is
to be q representative form of govern
ment. not by the question whether ne
has followed his conscience, but by the
question whether he really represents
the principles that his constituents de-
sire supported and put into practice
Reasons Twofold
"This quotation shows that the
grounds of Mr.. .Taft's opposition to me
were twofold-the rate bill and the
Brownsville. matter.
''The rate bill, Mr.. Taft says of me in
his letter enumerating the reasons why
he should not accept an Endorsement
for the presidency If coupled with an
Endorsement of me for senator:
"'He has opposed the vital policies
and principles of the administration,
and adds as another reason that L
would not vote for the bill, although
requested to do so by the Ohio legis-
lature.
"Mr. Taft knew I had, never opposed
the policy of supervising and regulat-
ing interstate commerce and interstate
carriers He knew that my opposition
to the rate bill was not because L was
opposed to the policy of regulation and
supervision, but only to some rev
methods proposed by that measure.
"For instance, he knew that my OBJ
lection was confined to certain clauses,
among them the rate making clause
and the commodities clause.
"This bill contained some provisions
on account of which 1 disliked to vote
against it and so stated in the senate,
but ii contained others that seemed SO
vicious that l could not doubt that
would bring upon us not only panic,
idleness, suffering and distress, but still
Il
be generally foreseen.
He Studied 1t
entertaining this view Of the meas
ure. I studied the subject with much
care and felt when i had reached my
conclusions that it was my duty to my
constituents and the whole country 10
disregard the instructions of the Ohio
legislature. most of the members or
which body had probably studied the
questions involved but very little, II at
all.
81 do not agree with Judge Taft that
senator be controlled by the iegls-
lature of his own state against ms IN
telligence, his conscience and his Judg-
ment about a great public question OF
far reaching consequences. l think a
senator who would thus yield to pubic
clamor against his intelligence and MS
| Judgment would be unfit to represent
a great commonwealth in this congress
of the United States.
"Having such views, I felt that 1t
was my duty to present them TO the
senate and not be coerced into sur
render of them or to cast vote III
conflict with them.
at need not repeat the arguments
have so often made to show that turn
ing the control of the rate making
power over to a commission was cal
culated to, and has, impaired confi-
dence in railroads to such an extent
as to stop railroad construction and
do much injury to all kinds or pusl-
ness. from which 1t will require us a
long time to recover.
"Already the commodities clause has
been declared unconstitutional by one
OF the most respectable courts in the
country. 1t is commonly ACKNOWLEDGED
that 1t will be an absolute disaster to
the whole country if the supreme court
should reverse this decision.
other Bad Features
"There were other objections to the
rate bill that are now making them
selves painfully felt The announce
of the abolition of low through rates
for our foreign commerce our trans
| continental lines have practically
abandoned competition for Orienta
trade and that all ships flying the
American flag on the Pacific are 60
| ing out of commission. From the
| same cause rates on shipments of grain
| for export have been advanced from
| Buffalo to all northeastern Atlantic
points from to 31s cents and as
result 1t was announced two or three
weeks ago that for the week previous
more grain had been exported from
Montreal than from all the other ports
of the United Sattes.
"Other evil results might be noted,
but that is unnecessary for present
purposes. without disparaging genu-
| inc morality, 1t can be truthfully said
that less imaginary and professional
'rightness of action and moral
awakening and more common sense
| in the policies of the administration
would have been better for the coun-
try and would have exerted less of that
opposition OF which Mr.. Taft's letter
complains.
cat any rate, in the presence of the
decision on the commodities clause and
the unfortunate consequences resulting
in the enforcement of the rate law as
to foreign commerce, 1 do not think
/ need make any apology for voting
against the rate bill, and certainly
1 do not think 1t was an offense of
such heinous character that should
be read out of the party on account of
1t, as Judge Taft's letter practically
proposed.
Policy Produces Suffering
ST have in mind not the stopping in
definitely of adequate railroad con-
struction at a time when 1t is so
badly needed, nor the losses amount
ing to billions of dollars, which have
been sustained on account of the
shrinkage in values of all kinds of
securities, but the empty dinner pail
and suffering families of unemployed
wage workers and the humber classes
of people to be found by the thousands
in every section of the Union.
Responsibility for such conditions is
| serious. 1t is the first time we have
had anything like 1t under a Republi-
can administration. Who caused all
| this? Not Providence. Providence has
been generously indulgent. All our nat
ural conditions are favorable to re-
sumption of the fullest prosperity, and
| yet 1t does not come. =
I "A million brimful dinner pals have
been kicked over.
1--WE knew that the policies of the
Republican party filled them. Whose
| policies emptied them?
II am at least thankful, profoundly
| so, that no one has ever charged-not
even my bitterest enemy-that any din
ner pail has ever been emptied or that
any wage worker has ever lost days
wages by reason of any act or speech
or vote of mine.
"It was because I thought foresaw
all these disasters that I would not
| be stood up by the president, shoulder
| to shoulder with the Democratic sem
ators, to vote in support of policies
that they rightfully, as I thought,
claimed as their own.
But what manner of man is Judge
/ TN. "a 7 1yV1A n I'M