Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-01-09

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10y 40 't'-'S before the law. He
admits that the trust problem is I'M
solved. but urges that while searching
| for the remedy I'VE can at least with
draw from their grasp the special
privileges they have enjoyed under a
high protective tariff This, he adds.
is tax upon the masses for the benefit
Of the few. and he concludes with the
prediction that IF the present congress
| does not at the present session make
substantial reductions the people in
November will elect those pledged to
do So"
Taft Defends Administration.
The first public addresses made by
Secretary Taft since his return were
made at Boston last week, the princi-
pal one being in the evening during
the. dinner of the Merchants associa-
ton. It had been rumored that on this
occasion Taft would break away from
the Roosevelt apron strings and ap-
peal to the SO called conservatives. On
the contrary. he made a glowing de-
Tense of the administration, which won
applause from the business men there
assembled. He declared that mo panic
can make wrong right and rejected
the plea that conservatism means the
condoning of lawlessness. He denied
that the policy of the administration
had been directed against capital as
such or that the president had ar
as dishonest. Instead of causing a
panic, he said, the policy of opposing
lawless trusts and supervising stock
issues would tend to prevent such dis
orders in future. He was opposed to
government ownership of railroads,
(which means state socialism, and
added these impressive words: But if
1.-THE abuses of monopoly and discrim-
nation cannot be restrained, and if the
concentration of power made possible
| by such abuses continues, then social
ism will triumph and the institution Of
private property viii perish. The
question which you have ultimately to
meet is whether we shall maintain a
strict regulation of railroads and trusts
or, shall turn the country over to the
advocates of government ownership
and state socialism After reciting
the measures taken by the admins
| tration Taft said that it had been
shown that dangers from individual
ism could be regulated and abuses in
the exercise of private property could
be restrained and that thus great
conservative victory had been won and
the coming of socialism had been
stayed"
Earlier in the day he talked to 400
ministers about the Philippines. The
story that he had fallen out with his
campaign manager, Vorys, was denied,
but there was persistent report that
First Assistant Postmaster General
Hitchcock, previously known as a Cor
teiyou conspirator, was to become an
active Taft promoter.
Georgia's Dry New Years Day.
Throughout the state of Georgia
New Years eve was celebrated with
.deathwatches" in the saloons and
praise services in the churches because
with the first stroke of the clock after
midnight the new prohibition law was
to go into effect making the demon
rum an outcast henceforth, At the
last stroke of II thousands of rerelers
toasted the new year with their last
glass and loft the saloons in darkness,
with doors not to be again opened. In
the Baptist tabernacle the Rev. Or.
Broaghton broke bottle Of WHISKY
before the assembled congregation.
shouting Whisky is dead IN Georgia =
to which the people answered THANK
Godp But already two brewing COM
lpanies had petitioned the courts for an
Injunction against the enforcement Of