Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-29
THE GALL OF REPUBLICANIsM.

THE CALL OF REPUBLICANISM.
The address of Judge Taft to the
notification committee is what has
been expected of the Republican can
didate-fair, dignified, able, temper
ate, judicial. There is no heat in it,
no rhetorical flourish, no appeal to
anything but reason and sound COM
mon sense. Mr.. Taft holds a good
brief for the Republican party. He
recites the splendid accomplishments
of President Roosevelt in setting a
higher standard of business morals
and fighting for legislation that will
regulate and control the immense
business and Industrial corporations
that have developed within the past
ten years. s ~ II. .
Our duty now, Judge Taft says, is
to clinch what has been accomplish
ed, to improve and add to the legis-
lation that has been passed, making
it effective for the purposes for which
it was intended, and to regulate cor
porate activity, with the least posi-
BILE disturbance or alarm to legiti-
mate business. This is Mr.. Taft's
policy, and he is judiciously fair,
eminently able and farseeing. He can
be relied upon to carry out the pol
icy for which he declares and to do
it with such fairness and justice that
no harm can come to any legitimate
business interest.
The Democratic party would regu-
late corporations by destroying the
corporations themselves, either
through a removal of tariffs that
would harm business interests or
through punitive legislation that
would embarrass the good with the
bad. Judge Taft proposes to strike
at the specific evils in corporate man
agement, instead of striking wildly
at the general business of corpora
lions. The intelligent reader will not
fail to distinguish between whole
sale attack and discriminative regu-
Iation. *.-...
On the labor question Judge Taft
makes his position sound and clear.
He would accord to labor every legi-
innate and lawful right. He would
not take away any right Of labor to
organize, to prosecute strikes, to
band together for their common in
terest. But he would preserve as
well the right of every man, union or
not, to pursue his vocation peaceful
ly and without interference, to work
where and when he will and for
whom he will. He would preserve
the rights of business to legitimate
protection. He occupies on this the
high ground of the statesman, not
the cheap and insecure vantage point
OF the demagogue Or the selfish poll
tician. He makes no play to the gal
leries. He declares for exact justice,
fairness to all parties to the contro-
versy, and when we depart from this
principle we shall have a govern
ment not of the people, but of a class
of the people @~ g.
Judge Taft makes clear his deter
nnination that the protective tariff is
established policy of this country. He
is for tariff regulation and amend.
ment by the Republicans-not by the
Democrats He is for the perfor,
nance Of our plain duty in the Phil
ippines, not for the the cowardly sur.
render proposed by the Democrats
He gives some enlightening figure!
on the comparatively small cost O.
our establishment in the Philippines
He stands for strong and vigorous
army and navy He woul effect san,
and wise government regulation o
railroads, according to investment
Of capital. the right to earn a fai
4 return and to be guaranteed stabilit.
and security
Judge Taft's address is a goo
\ campaign document. It indicates hi
fairness, his judicial temperament, hi
s broad mindedness We have In hir
the typical American, and fine typ
Of the progressive spirit fostered an
advanced by the Republican party.
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