Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-21
ELECT CONGRESS 100.
President Asks Cooperation in
Securing Republican
Control
NECESSARY TO CARRY ON WORK
Taft's Election Without House and
Senate Back of Him Would Halt Re-
forms--President Tolls of construc-
tive Laws Credited to Present Ad-
ministration.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, Sept. 21.-Presi-
that republican congress be elected.
that it may aid Mr. Taft should he be
successful in his race for the presi-
dency. He has written Congressman
Mckinley of Illinois, chairman of the
republican congressional committee,
asking him to cooperate with the ma
tional committee to gain this end.
Mr.. Roosevelt explains that the cleo
ton of Mr.. Taft will do but little to-
ward carrying out the reforms needed
and to which the party is pledged UNI
less he has the aid of republican
house or senate. He urges all citizens
who desire these reforms fulfilled to
aid in the election of republican can
didates.
Text of tho Letter.
The president outlines the work done
in recent years, particularly the con-
structive legislation, and says 1t can
only be continued under republican
administration.
The letter to Congressman Mckinley
follows:
"Oyster Bay. N. My Dear Sir:
have received your letter of Aug. 2S.
1 agree with all that you say as to
the amount of affirmative and con-
structive legislation for the social and
economic benefit of our people which
has been accomplished by the con-
gress during the last seven years. The
law establishing a national system OF
irrigation was of vital Importance, ana
stands in it's line as second only to the
homestead law. The interstate COM
merce law has been amended so as to
make it a new law, with threefold the
EFFICIENCY of the old law. The enact
ment of the pure food law was of
equal Importance. The creation OF the
department of commerce and labor, TO-
gether with the creation Of a bureau or
corporations, marks the beginning OF
federal control over the huge corpora
lions doing an Interstate business.
"rhe employers liability law, the
safety appliance law, the law limiting
the working hours of railway employees,
the meat inspection law, the denatured
alcohol law, the anti-rebate law, the
laws increasing the powers of the de-
partments of justice in dealing WIN
those, regardless of wealth and power
who intsract the law, the law making
the government liable for injuries 10
It's employees, the laws under which the
Panama canal was acquired ana IS De
ing built, the Philippines administered
and the navy developed the laws Gre
ating a permanent census bureau ana
reforming the consular service, and the
system of naturalization, the law for
bidding child labor in the district OF
Columbia, the law providing a commits
sion under which our currency system
can be put on thoroughly satisfac-
tory basis, the laws for the proper ad-
ministration of the forest service, the
laws fer the admission of Oklahoma
and the development Of Alaska, the
great appropriations for the develop
ment OF agriculture, the legal prohlpl-
ton Of campaign contributions from
corporations-all these represent but
norton of what has been done by cons
gress. ana form a record of substantial
legislative achievement in harmony
with the best and most progressive
thought of our people.
pleads for Republican Congress.
at Isl urgently necessary, from the
standpoint of the public interest TO