The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-26
THE TAFT SIDE
By the Rev. w. S. Grove

- Y friend, MI. Kenny, say tina neither Mr. TAFT nor Mr.. Bryan, )
NV a $ President would injure the business of the nation Well
IVA that is the n great Issue of the campaign-whether the a !
tins business shall be injured or helped. If the question is already !
settled; if neither Bryan Taft would help or hinder things the 3
whole campaign is a foolish waste of energy. I
Mr. Kenny alo says there is a magic in the mere fact of being
elected President which fits a man for the office. No difference how igno-
OF how impractical a man may be. the election is a miracle which
fills him with knowledge and judgment-then why not Debs or Berkman?
Mr. Kenny says that Mr.. Bryan and Mr. Taft are both committed
to tariff revision, but there is a doubt whether Mr.. Taft would fulfil
the promise. Mr. Taft has proven himself quite sincere and capable in
many great fields IF action. Would lis election work M opposite mrace
of making him incapable and insincere? He frankly believes in the pro
lection which is given by the tariff. just a he believes in the protection
which is given by thu army n n navy III desn 10 "a a mlhhon
soldiers or a hundred batteships; he wants enough. He a the tariff
schedules shall be treated rationally-lowered. where too high; removed
where there should De none; increased, where they are TOO iow-maae
consisten with the best interests Of American business and wages His
record is or guarantee that he will do it,
Did you yer ask foreign-born workmen why they came to this
country, hundreds of thousands of them every year; why they did not
go to free trade England?
We do not doubt Mr.. Bryans sincerity. If he is elected and gets a
Congress to his liking, M. Champ Clark will be Speaker and will shape
ported, that he would tear down every custom house in America That
would tear down a large per cent. of the factories. and that would tea
down a great many stores, stop a great many railroad trains and leave
a great deal of farm produce to rot in the fields There would be no
strikes then. There would be nothing to strike for, or strike with.
Mr.. Kenny thinks Mr.. Taft should not be elected. because President
Roosevelt nominated him. What difference who nominated him. If cleo
ton works the miracle of ability and safety? 1t is generally supposed
that the delegates, In convention assembled, nominated Mr.. Taft If
that were not really the case. If the President did it; then let it be quick
y recorded that. of all the great and good things done by Mi. Roosevelt
for the American people. his nomination of Taft is the greatest and best
Now, If the President will go right OF and elect Mr.. Taft obligations
will be complete.
You think Mr.. Bryan's election would not hr. business9 How about
his theory that o man or company shall make more than half of a given
nroduct9 The United states steele CORPORATION makes go per cent of Amer
lean steel All other oncer make 40 per cent. 1t shall only make a
much as they do. 1t shall close onethird Of its mills. That would throw
out a large army of steel workers. The railroad employees who handle
that steel would be thrown out. The new railroads and cars and bridges
and buildings and boats and machines and implements and tools de-
pending O that steel would not be NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. army of work
men thrown out. Stores would lose the custom of these Bryanized work
men. Factories of a hundred kinds would al to make goods for them,
and farmers would feel the loss of a market Out would go another army,
to swell the ranks of the unemployed. Dividends would cease Hos
ptals charities colleges. estates of widows and orphans. thousands OF
employees, are partly dependent steel dividends; but who cares for
the wide losses and suffering, when a trust-busting theory is to be main
tanned? WASTE. ~
There is another look at this 80 per cent. scheme. A friend Of mine
devised a n invention, got it patented, equipped his plant did a lot If
is just now beginning ito see returns. He makes all Of the product that
is made. The government. by its patent. guarantees him hat privilege.
That lis our governments way of encouraging practical genius A Bryan
lied Congress and a Bryanized Supreme Court would take away the
protection of his patent. Our government has issued more than nine
hundred thousand patents. This first decision o the 50 per cent scheme
would nulify them all and erase the patent office. With no patent office
and n o custom house we should be far along on the way to socialism.