Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-11
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fdence of the people of the United State

fidence of the people of the United States
to the point Of their turning over the
government to a Democratic executive
by reason of circumstances | need not
detail,' he continued. the influence OF
the Republican party has been little felt
south of Mason and Dixon's line The
time has come, in my judgment, when 1t
is the duty of our party to make an earn
est effort to win to our support the many
Southerners who think with us on every
living rational issue and have only been
kept from our ranks bv the ghost of the
past" Secretary Taft referred to abuses
that had been practiced ny corporations
and declared that a conviction seized the
people that there were men engaged in
the management Of corporation wealth
who regarded the statutes as dead letters.
and themselves as a privileged class.
I'VE We're passing into q regime of an
irresponsible plutocracy." said he, add
fnc: During the last four years there
has teen great moral awakening to this
'or~nr ar7onr the people and popular
demand that the lawbrnakers- matter
how wealthy or high or powerful their
r,nrition-shall be made to suffer. Under
tT- itdueTSiip VI iScosc'S-N' llic
t'n-rt,:can rarity has not falterrd in its
/ 'n.or- 7ination to mcnt the requirements
~ the situation and to enact such legis-
lation as may he necessary to bring to
a close this neriod OF illegitimate corpnr
ate irmurty.''
Continuing, he said: There ar" those
who have been members of the Republic
can party WHO differ FROM Mr.. Ttooseve''
IN respect to the proper course to be
taken in stamping out the abuses of cor
porate wealth. The great bulk of the Re
publican party, however. stands solidlr
at his back in the work which he an
the representative party in Congress ar
doing"
Secretary Taft spoke of the recent panic
and of President Roosevelts special mes
sage to Congress.
'"rhe message contains an answer to TIL
charges made that the administration :,
responsible for the unusual depression
vhsch has followed" said the secretary.
land the sharpness and emphasis with
which this unfounded attack is met have
heartcned the great body of the people as
by huele call to renewed support of the
policies of the administration.
r rom Degl0nlnT 10 eflu lHe uitSSdSe
shows his earnest desire to protect the
honest business man and the honest la
horer and to secure for them the posi-
bilitv of living under the equal admins
tration of the law"
In concluding he said: Vigorous ac-
ton and measures TO stamp out existing
abuses and effective reforms are neces-
sarv to vindicate society as at present
constituted. Otherwise we must yield to
those who seek to introduce 4 new order
Of things On q Socialistic basis.
1.-The Republican party follows the ad-
ministration upon this social and moral
refclm-approves it's attitude iii favor of
the vested rights, of maintaining the
power Of courts, of rendering more equal
hv legislation the basis of dealing be-
tween employer and cmploye. of strength
ening the regulative power over railroads
and other interstate corporations, and of
prosecuting those lawbreakerS who con-
tinue to defy public opinion. Roosevelt
leads his Carty as Lincoln led his-as Nc
Kinlev led his-to meet the new issues
presented. to arm our political civilization
and fit 1t with bold front to resist the
attacks of Socialism and to transmit to
the coming generations unframed the
great institution of civil liberty inherited
from our fathers"