Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-05

publican party. When the tariff commits
sion idea was advanced Mr.. Bryan OPP
posed It in formal printed debate. When
tariff commission bill was introduced
in Congress every democrat was hostile
TO il. democratic vote is certain vote
against tariff commission A republican
vote is a possible vote for this business
like reform.
Every labor law we have passed and
will pass IS part OF that web OF indus
trial questions which we call the labor
problem. But, after all, the Fundamental
labor problem is the problem of employ
ment and pay. Had any political econ
omist been told twenty-five years ago
that carpenters, miners and SteelWOrkerS
ever would be paid the American wages
OF the present day he would have SCORED
"All this has come during republican
administrations We plan TO continue and
increase it.
Recovery From the Panic.
eve are quickly recovering from the
briefest panic IN our history. Let work.
insmen contrast that panic with the one
that occurred under the last democratic
administration and then answer this
question for themselves: VIII tie cleo
ton Of Mr.. Bryan or Mr. Taft best help
TIE rapidly improving business of TIE
country? And remember that active bust
ness means we'll paid employment.
THAT Mr.. Bryan and tie opposition
would make business practically inpossi-
BILE is proved by their national FRANCHISE
plan They propose that every enter
prise big enough 10 do business III more
than one state shall secure national
license which can he granted or with
drawn by any administration. But no
business can succeed without certainty:
no business man could afford TO invest a
dollar when he knew that his very right
\ ,tr,nr of
away by the caprice of a President or the
accident Of an election. The franchise
plan makes every President four years
car with absolute power over the lie
and death of every business concern
large enough to trade throughout the
nation.
Comparison of Bryan and Taft.
This is campaign OF candidates even
more than of platform. The question is
not which candidate is most upright pa
triotic, brave. for both are equally So
Both mean equally well toward their
country.
1.-The real question is which candidate
will make the best President? Which is the
wisest and steadiest? Which man would
YOU choose as administrator OF your es-
tateo Which would you select to man.
age your business? Which has the best
training and the most experience?
Mr.. BRYAN never has handled single
foreign problem. . He has governed no
Philippines, regenerated no Cuba, built no
canal avoided no alien danger. saved
us from no threatened peril Mr. Taft
has done ALL
Taft the Experienced.
.In domestic affairs Mr.. Bryan has writ
ten not one law, administered not single
department. advised no President-while
lecturing all. He is preacher OF right
eousness but not an administrator of af-
fairs. He never conducted the govern
ment of a city. county. a state or a
nation. William H. Taft has been judge
on the bench. governor of a people, ad-
ministrator of a department. His hand
has helped to shape most of the progress
i've laws We have passed in the last seven
years and his great heart and splendid
mind are behind every law We propose
today. The sought-for counselor of three
Presidents--as different yet as wise as
Harrison Mckinley and Roosevelt-fate
has equipped him to be the trusted leader
of the people who loved and honored these
three chief magistrates. Almost it seems
that here is man prepared by. Proyi-