Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-12-10
OBEDIENCE TO LAW
WILL BE KEYNOTE OF THE NEW
ADMINISTRATION.
Judge Taft, with Gov. Hughes Of New
York, Went Before the Country
on Their Records, and
Are Pledged.

The keynote of the new administra-
tlon is obedience to law. Judge Taft
himself has sounded it. II was en-
Enthusiastically received. Addressing a
body of business men, the victor in
the recent contest spoke for prosperity
under the law, and his hearers rose to
him with approval. The country Will
follow suit In that sign we shall con
quer.
If anybody asks, Why have empha-
sized so plain a point? let him recall
the disclosures of the last few years
in the business world. In many quar-
ters not only was law being violated,
but practices prevailed which in good
reason called for prohibition. Men,
alone or in combination, with cunning
and large resources were law unto
themselves. They had adopted the
Vanderbilt motto, and were swimming
in privilege and gain. THE public be
d--d!" Trusts were in their glory.
Railroads were building or breaking
down towns, fixing their own prices on
commodities and making and unmak-
ing public servants.
In New York state the very dregs of
the population-the race track gam
blers--observing what was going on at
the top impudently copied it. They
set up for law unto themselves Rae
ing should go on according to their
chart and interests. What had Gov.
Hughes to do with it? Let him be-
ware. If he made any more noise he
would be pulled down at the polls and
a man put in office who would keep
his place.
When the great body of the people
! got a square look at the situation they
wondered For a moment it seemed
incredible that such outlawry should
for so long a time have gone practi-
cally unchallenged. Then as the won
der grew Indignation grew, so that
when President Roosevelt, moving
| first, aud Gov. Hughes, coming into Of
flee later, took up the gage of battle,
sentiment for the law took immediate
| form. Congress had all necessary pop
ular support in it's enactments to
"shackle the cunning" of the big law
breakers, while the legislature at Al
| bany had the support necessary to
| show the gamblers their limit.
Judge Taft and Gov. Hughes went
! before the country on their records
and the records of their party, and
both were superbly indorsed. No more
! impressive majorities have ever been
| achieved than stand to the credit of
! those two men. The one goes into the
White House, and the other remains
at Albany, instructed by the people to
execute all the law now on the books
and ask of the lawmaking authorities
such additional statutes as may be
necessary to conserve and strengthen
all public interests.
Judge Taft, speaking first, pledges
himself to obey instructions. Gov.
Hughes, in turn, will do likewise. They
much to help inaugurate-"ther reign
of law" All activities within the law
are encouraged TO go full speed ahead
All without the law, and defiant of the
law, are warned to ring their backing
bells and withdraw from the course. A
word to the unwise, spoken by such
men, should be sufficient.
There may be murmurs. Lawbreak.
ers have no good opinion either of the
law or officials who execute the law
but such influences are not today po
tent in our affairs.