The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-09-05
I aft Is
Popular
Leader
Indiana Statesman Reviews
the Great Work of the
Party's< Nominee.
BRYAN HAS DONE NOTHING
While Taft Has Done a Great
Many Things Of Great
Effect on Nation.

YOUNGSTOWN, o., Sept. Sem
ator Beveridge. OF Indiana, at the
opening OF the REPUBLICAN campaign
in Ohio. spoke in part aslfollows:
I'VE are midway in an historic
movement for Righteousness written
into law. Shall that movement be
carried out? Its concrete expression
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 wrecked the movement but only
have delayed 1t. For the people would
have gathered headway again until
their purpose was worked out.
But extravagant schemes and
emotional agltators can wreck IL.
The Revolution would have failed
had impracticable men been in COM
mand instead OF the cautions and
wise, yet daring and determined
Washington. Many cause has gone
down at the hands OF hot-headed
and eccentric friends.
And, so today, in the American
peoples mighty moral advance, thus
far successfully led by Theodore
Roosevelt, the gravest question is
whether We shall place our COM
mander's standard In the hands of
our most trusted captain, who WIN,
lead US safely and surely along the
we'll marked course we are following.
or nthe hands of those who viii lea
MS on zig-zag marches after rash a6iyen
lures until the whole movement dis
solves in the peoples disgust and
the worlds ridicule.
BY their fruits ye shall know
them. Seven years ago we started up-
on the great work of modern and hu-
name legislation that has made the
Roosevelt period historic. In those
years we passed the Railroad Rate
Bill, which for the hrst time in
American history asserts the princi-
pie that the government of all the
people can and will regulate those
who carry the products OF all the peo-
pie. We passed the Meat Inspection
and Pure Food Laws which ended
the sale of poisoned foods and adul-
terated drugs; the irrigation law,
which is making fertile the arid West
and will build within our own con-
tinental boundaries new empire Of
productive wealth.
I'm these seven years we have en-
acted more important lnws for the
safety. comfort and welfare of labor
than in any two decades since the
government was founded. We pass
ed the Employers Liability Law.
which revolutionized the heartless
rule Of the common law and gives the
railroad lahorer or his family COM
HensatIon for his injury or death;
the law forhid1ln- railways from re-
quirtnE employees to work an inhu-
man number OF hours without rest:
the Safety Spnllancc Act, which not
only lessons the danger to life and
limb of employees hut which Increases
the safety OF the travelling public.
We passed the Chinese Exclusion Act.
which keeps coolie labor out of tho
Republic and dlminishes 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 COM
pensatIon for injury or his family for
his death while in the governments
employ.
Bryan Never Thought Of Laws.
"All these are Republican laws.
Each OF them Is a part Of the plan
of statesmanship which seeks to write
conscience and humanity upon our
statute books. Each Of them was OPP
posed secretly or openly by both
Democrats and Republicans: each of
them received 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.. Bry-
an never dreamed OF the meat inspec-
ton and pure food laws. yet the law
means more to the health of the
American people than all the curious
devices he ever proposed"
Senator Beveridge then ably dis
cussed the the tariff as a protective
principle and declared this country
needs new markets. He also refer
red TO the tarift commission and the
advisability Of the plan and its report
In discussing the labor question, he
said but after all. the fundamental
labor problem Is the employment OF
labor and pay" The recovery from
the panic was alluded to. He advo-
Gated a well equipped navy and point
ed out Bryan's many surrenders OF +
the Monroe doctrine.