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without reproach, Christian without hy-
| pocrisy. a man without guile.
"Such a man. the colonel added, Il
present to you-the next President OF the
United States"
Mr.. Taft reviewed the record Of the
democratic party from the time Of the
last democratic administration in 1898.
During this period" he said: 1T re,
pealed the Mckinley tarin Dill pa1 Hs,
son tariff bill of 1893. With the pros
pect OF democratic tariff for revenue
and under the operation Of the German
period of industrial depression set In
| which continued through the next presi-
Dental campaign Of 1896. The remedy
for this depression as proposed by the
democratic party under its present lead
ership was a change from the gold stand
ard of currency and values which was
| the measure of all pecuniary obligations.
to silver standards cnange which
would have scaled the debts of all by
quite 50 per cent and would have pro-
duced a financial crash in which the
business disaster would only have been
exceeded by the injury to our national
financial honor
Prosperity Beyond Compare.
As soon as the republican party came
into power In 1897, he said. it repealed
the German Wilson tariff bill and enacted
| the present Dingley tariff bill, and with
the assurance Of an honest monetary
standard confidence was restored and
period Of business expansion and pros
perity followed to an extent never before
known In the history of the world.
Wages were never higher. he declared:
Ia 40 Ia r6 fXi
the wage earners. of the farmers and OF
the business men In point of comfort
and of enjoyment of life was advanced
beyond precedent Attending this great
prosperity abuses developed growing out
Of the dishonesty Of some prominent
men intrusted with the management of
the business of others and OF greed OF
financial power of some stimulated by
| combination Of capital in large corpora
| tions."
These abuses, he said, chiefly took the
| form Of the violation Of the antitrust law
and in the granting Of rebates and dis
/ ordinations by railways to large shippers.
When the extent Of these evils were
brought home to the people. he said.
President Roosevelt evoked the attention
of Congress and the public to them and
proceeded to enforce the laws then on
the statute books.
A Tribute to Roosevelt.
at was not he said, until Mr.. Roose.
welt realizing to the full the danger to
which our society was exposed unless
the offending corporations, railway and
Industrial, were made to obey and fear
the law, took vigorous action In the rec
ommendation of new legislation and in
the enforcement of the DID, that any
thing very effective vas done to check the
growing evil"
The republican Congress which had
been elected with Roosevelt in 1904, Mr..
Taft said made a record for remedial
legislation along the lines recommended
by the President, which, as he had said
himself, has never been equaled in our
time. Mr.. Taft referred to the railway
rate bill, the bill creating the bureau OF
corporati tons. the pure food bill and the
meat inspection bill. most of which he
declared encountered the open bitter op-
position of all the corporations and failed
of passage in the previous Congress. In
spite of continued opposition they were
finally enacted into law.
Here Are Some Results.
What has been the result of this leg
islation and executive action?" he asked.
Secret rebates and unlawful discrimina-
tons have been actually abolished. No
monopoly of business I'm any line is now
maintained by a secret reduction of
freight rates to it which is denied to
competitors
He declared that "the people have
ruled through the republican party. 1
have no hesitation in saying that not
since the beginning of the government has
any other national administration done
so much for the cause OF labor by the
enactment or remedial legislation as
| Theodore Roosevelt and the republican
Congresses elected and sitting during his
| terms of Office
It is true, he said. that additional legis-
| latton is needed to perfect the machinery
for enforcing the principles laid down by
| Mr. Roosevelt and declared in the rene
dial statutes already passed.
1.-The present Congress- he added, has
| re-enacted the employers liability act,
has strengthened the safety appliance
| acts has passed the government en-
ployes' compensation act, has directed in
yestigations into mine disasters and has
pa sed a model child labor bill. 1t has
not amended the interstate commerce
law so as to prevent over.ssue or stocks
and bonds on interstate railroads, and it
has not amended the antitrust law as
suggested by Mr.. Roosevelt"
Swats Democratic Party.
Great care, he said. would be required
in the enactment of additional legislation,
and 1.-THE fact that the democratic party
has but little recent experience in the
RESPONSIBILITIES of power and but little
training in actual legislation makes the
party and it's distinguished leader utterly
obliyious of the necessity for care and
caution in the enactment of statutes
which are to accomplish changes In our
social and business relations.
They seem to have an impression that