The Washington times., 1908-11-26
Will Insist Upon Real Re-
vision, No Matter Who
Opposes.
|BELIEVES HIMSELF
BOUND TO CHANGE
Thinks He Must Work for Honest
Measure Because of His
Speeches During Campaign.
BvL WFLLTYFR.

Dy j. " " EL1A Elk.
HOT SPRINGS. Va, Nov. 26.-Presi-
dent-eiect Taft is receiving word that
he is building up trouble for himself
by his determined stand for genuine
tariff revision and the overthrow OF
reaction
Delegations have coma 10 Hot Springs
70 tell what a tremendous mistake he IL
making, Letters and te5egrams are CON-
ing to him by the hundreds, urging him
10 be conservative. In other words, en-
trcnched reaction Is again insisting that
the Administration must go slow.
1t was not necessary for these self
constituted advisers 70 tell Mr.. Taft no
was making trouble for himself by the
policy he is pursuing. lie has known II
from the first. II has never been an
easy matter 70 enact a tariI law. There
never was but one tariff law enacted
which did not make trouble for the
party IN power while IL was making.
That was the Dingley law. If Mr.. Taft
now were willing 20 permit the people
who alone are 10 be benefited b. tariff
schedules to change them fer their own
purposes. there would be no danger OF
any kind OF a row.
But q new Taft has come on the scene.
II is true that he said during the cam
paign there must be a thorough re-
vision Of the tariff" and that as long
ago as 1906 he made use Of the very
expression which found SIS way into the
Republican tarin plank Of 1915.
More Than Promises.
The protected interests read all these
things and thought they meant nothing
more than other promises made FOR the
purpose Of catching votes. Taft, within
the last two weeks las BEN a revela-
tion even to his fN4nds. lie has dis
PLAYED a courage 4 tteh bpt few men
would have nad Ile' remeTity under the
circumstances 20 show.
Many OF Mr.. Tafts most earnest and
loyal supporters have told him IL would
not be advisable for him 20 begin his
Administration with a controversy IN
vOlving the old leaders Mr.. Taft hesi-
tated before announcing his intentions.
II would have been much easier TO try
patching up differences and present
makeshift tariff measure. But he rec
ognlzed that such a policy would mean
nothing accomplished during four years
Of his Administration. The fight which
presented itself was the same which
confronted him when his candidacy for
nomination was announced Taft stood
for. progress, Stood for Il, as recent
developments have shown, more ln-
slsteEtiy and more strenuously than
any Of his opponents suspected.
At the Chicago convention the entire
field Of reaction combined against the
nomination Of Taft. The victory, after
all was only partial one. The plat
form adopted did not go far enough 20
suit the candidate and he practically
made new one IOr himself
Hews Out Policy.
He hewed out a policy for himself as
he went along, despite the protests OF
those I'D leaders who insisted that the
platform adopted by the convention
alone was binding.
Mr.. Taft insists that the American
people indorsed by their votes his letter
or acceptance and the campaign
speeches he made during a tour which
took him TO every section Of the coun-
try. He proposes to fight it out along
this line. and he IS convinced that he
stands a better chance Of success at
the beginning OF his Administration
than he would later. He has the ex-
perience Of Theodore Roosevelt to a7Iida
him. ~ e@'Ao
In the first Congress. following his tri-
umphant election. Mr. Roosevelt cot
practically everything he demanded
Whether he would have got more i'm
the end had he not compromised Is
question on which pubic men differ
But on the broad principles involved IN
an earnest revision o the tariff. there
is no chance for compromise between
those who hope 70 benefit the entire
people, and those who regard the tarfff
as method for exploiting the many
TO the advantage OF the few.
Easy to Be Insincere.
Nowhere can inslncerity more thor
oughly disguise itself in the sheen
clothing Of sincerity, than in arranging
tariff schedules. For instance. one Of
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