Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-27
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT
POLICIES

a GSOOlA4EO 0ioPeetShNo ~
u citing Gen. Du Points resignation
IA under fire from the place of chair
man of the speakers committee of the
Republican national executive commit
tee quote an expression concerning that
matter from Mr.. Hitchcock, the nation
al committee chairman, which read be-
tween the lines may be pregnant with
a good deal of meaning that Mr.. Hitch
cock had not intended it to convey.
Mr.. Hitchcock is reported as say
ing that Gen. Du Pont has resigned
because he felt that the tendency of
the suit by the government against the
powder trust with which he is con-
nected might be employed by our OPP
ponents to the injury of the campaign
to which HE is so EARNESTLY DE-
VOTED"
The question arises, why is Gen. Du
Pont, "rnalefactor of great wealth"
against whom Mr.. Roosevelt's attorney
general is proceeding through the
courts. $50 earnestly devoted" to the
election of Mr.. Taft?
II Mr.. Taft is such an ardent advo-
cate of the Roosevelt policies OF prose-
cutting ''malefactors of great wealth"
who break the law, why should Gen.
Du Pont be so anxious to forward his
election? Is it the experience Of man
kind that criminals are usually en-
| thusiastic in securing the election Of a
judge who they have reason to believe
win hold them to stern account for
crimes against the laws of the country
that they have committed?
We are assured by Mr.. Taft's friends
and supporters that he Is ''the legiti-
mate successor of Mr.. Roosevelt and
they have made all sorts of unqualified
pledges on behalf of Mr.. Taft as to the
enthusiasm and devotion with which he
will enter upon the enforcement of
"the Roosevelt policies" concerning the
prosecution of wealthy law-breakers.
Has Mr.. Taft ever made any such
unqualified pledges in his own behalf
as his supporters have made for him?
Let us see.
In his letter of acceptance, after plas-
tering Mr.. Roosevelt all over with the
most fulsome eulogy-just. by the way,
as the national Republican convention
did, and then turned down 1.-The Roose-
welt policies" and refused to embody
them in it's platform-Mr. Taft has this
to say concerning the enforcement of
1.-THE Roosevelt policies:
1.-THE chiof function of the next
administration is to perfect the ma
chinery by which these standards
may be maintained, by which the
| lawbreaker may be promptly re-
strained and punished, but which
shall operate with sufficient accu-
racy and dispatch to INTERFERE
WITH THE GREAT BUSINESSES
AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE"
Further on in Mr.. Taft's letter he
says:
1.-THE practical construction and
difficult work, therefore, of those
who follow Mr.. Roosevelt is to de-
wise ways and means by which the
high level of business integrity and
obedience to the law may be main
tanned and departure from 1t re-
strained WITHOUT UNDUE IN
TERFERENCE WITH LEGITI-
MATE BUSINESS"
The Herald would like to ask the
admirers of the Roosevelt policies
and the Republican party, by the way,
does not contain all of those-if they
have ever seen any recommendation of
Mr.. Roosevelt's as to the enforcement
of the law against "malefactors of
great wealth" qualified by any sug-
gestion that such enforcement should
be SO handled as not to interfere with
| legitimate business?
In truth, The Herald feels that it can
pay Mr.. Roosevelt the compliment of
saying that his moral nature is such
that he cannot conceive that the en-
forcement of the law can interfere with
any LEGITIMATE business"
Mr.. Roosevelt, in common with every
other honest man, has never been able
to conceive of any sort of Legitimate
business" that may be interfered with
by the enforcement of the law or that
has any cause to fear law enforcement.
1t remains for Mr.. Taft, to whose
election Gen. Du Pont, gentleman all
ready pilloried in the courts OF his
country for having violated that coun-
try's laws, is 80 earnestly devoted"
to have suggested the possibility of the
enforcement of the laws of his country
! interfering with Legitimate business