The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-20
VOICE OF TAFT IS
GROWING WEAKER
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entire evening in Baltimore. He en-
countered tremendous crowds, and en-
thusiasm spontaneous and ample. HIS
extended efforts of the day were at
! Newark ne gave attention TO all the Is
speech he dwelt solely on the labor
question, and tonight he combined the
/ Newark and Elizabeth speeches.
The zest with which Delaware re
| ceived the candidate resulted In cur
failing the Wilmington speech to few
lines.
Predicts His Election.
"I can only say to you" he re-
marked, "that from what 1 have seen
in New Jersey today, and what [ have
seen in Delaware today, and what saw
| in the south and west the last three
weeks, am going to be elected. and 1T
would give me the greatest pride If in
that electoral vote L could have the
three from Delaware,
"'The real issue of the campaign is, "
said Mr.. Taft tonight, whether you
think the Republican party, by what it
| has done in the last twelve years, is
entitled to your confidence. Even if 1T
has done something to displease you, is
it not much 10 be preferred to the
|
stances, considering the history of that
party and considering the peculiarities
to use no more offensive expression
of the leadership of that party?'
The acts of the Republican party were
! then recounted. Establishing the gold
standard. repeating the, Wilson" German
tariff bill and cnacting the Dingley
tariff; fighting the Spanish war
Work of the Party.
|
we supposed. They stayed there for
three years; then they fell on their
knees and we had again to go and help
them TO their feet
'fIn Porto Rico we have made mil
lion people rejoice every night and
every day and thank God that they are
i under the prosperity That the stars and
stripes have given.
"EThen we took up the Philippines
the hardest problem that we had to
solve as the result of the war. Today
half a million Filipino school children
are reading, writing and reciting IN
English: we have given them practical
control over the central government
and full control over the provincial and
municipal governments.
''We took up the Panama canal,
which for four hundred years since the
time of Charles the Fifth, had been the
subject of discussion. Under the pres
ent administration there has been an
organization of brains, machinery
and hands in such n way that in
the course of five or six years any.
one who knows about the work can
promise its completion so that our navy
will sail from the Caribbean to the
Pacific
Awakening Of Conscience.
Mr.. Taft next took what he termed
the moral awakening. respecting the
conduct of large business enterprises,
American conscience
"You would think from the state.
meuts of Mr.. Bryan he added, that
no progress has been made, but the pro
gress is truly remarkable. Through the
passage Of the rate bill the railroads
themselves have abandoned rebating,
have abandoned unlawful discrmina-
tions and have taken away the chief
jnstrumcntality by which unlawful
trusts and monopolies have been main
tanned. -
Judge Taft followed this with his ln-
dorsement OF the combination OF capl-
tai for legitimate purposes. He sald;
"The combination of capital is Just
as essential to our progress as the com.
, bination of the parts OF machine, and
the fact that the capital is great and
the number of plants needed are many
, is no reason for dcnounclng them as II,
: legal unless lnSE are uctu loi ah ihtShi
, purpose The normal, legal purpose or
such combination is to reduce the cost
. of production by inducing economy IN
tho management of the capital. 1t Is
only when undue means are taken TO
stiae competition that they cross the
line of legality and that they ought TO
be restrained and punished. Therefore,
, Mr. Roosevelt and the Republican ad-
/. mnistration have directed their atten-
tion to prosecuting the exact evil, which
: is the attempt to monopollze.
Says Bryan Would Destroy.
c "Mr, Bryan, on the other hand pro
poses to take steps which shall destroy
e the entire business. He proposes that
T. we shall abolish the tariff on what are
a called trust made articles. If you are
: going to take off the tariff on trust
: made articles YOU are going TO destroy
1 the trust all right. there will be NJ
: difficulty about that: and you are go
n ing TO throw out of employment The
. millions OF men engaged as wage earn
5 crs in those great businesses, and yo,
n also are going to destroy the lndepcnd
IS cnt competitors Of the trusts, for the,
are Just as dependent on the tariff, III
deed, more so, than the trusts them
selves. -
y View on the Tariff.
L Mr.. Taft S expressions on the tarif
d "The Republican party is in favor OF
d and is pledged to, thorough and genu
% inc revision of the tariff on a well
is understood principle and that is tina
- every industry. every product of tn
J. farm, the mine or the factory in thi
country shall be protected against fol
eign competition by customs dut
equal TO the difference in tho cost o
:. production here and the cost of pre-
81 duction abroad, That includes thre
l. clements. and perhaps more. but thre
P certalnly-thc cost Of material. tho cos
, of labor and the manufacturers prof
N or the interest on capital. You tax
"a those three elements abroad and nd
,e them together and these three element
IS. here and add them together and TAX
the difference and h,4 ,,,ana,,,o, 81.