The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-09-24
TAFT AND
PROSPERITY
President Roosevelt Writes In.
teresting Letter to Chairman
Of the Congressional
Committee.
THE DIsINTERESTED VOTER

President Gives Out a Letter I'm
Which He Calls on the Voters to
Support William III. Taft for Pres
ident, and Also Elect a Republican
Congress to support Him-A Re-
view of Past LegislatiOn-Mr.
Roosevelt Declares That to Elect
Taft Means Continuation of
These Policies.
Oyster Bay, N. Y, Sept. 20.-Pres-
ident Roosevelt In o letter to William
B. Mckinley, Chairman of the Re-
publican Congressional Committee,
made public to-day, appeals to disin-
terested citizens to join with the Ma
tional Republican Committee and the
Congressional Committee in a move
ment to elect William H. Talft as
President and Republican Con-
gress to support him. After review
ing some of the important legislation
Of the past seven years, the Presi-
dent declares that Mr.. Taft and the
Republican candidates for. Congress
seek election on platform which
specifically pledges the party to con-
tinue and develop the policies which
have been acted upon for seven years
past.
All the aid that can be given to
perpetuate the policy of the Govern
ment as now carried ON, the Presi-
dent says, should be given by every
good citizen, as it is far more than
a partisan matter.
Sycamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N. Y,
September 8, 1908.
My Dear Sir:-I have received
your letter of August 2Sth. l agree
with all that you say as to the
amount Of Affirmative and construc-
tive legislation for the social and
constructive legislation for the So
cfal and economic benefit of our peo-
pie which has been accomplished by
the Congress during the last seven
years. The law establishing a ma
tional system of irrigation was of
vital Importance, and stands in its
line as second only to the home
steal law. The interstate commerce
law has been amended SO as to make
it new law, with three-fold the eff
ficiency of the old law. The enact
ment of the pure food law was of al
most or quite equal Importance. The
creation of the Department of Com
merce and Labor, together with the
creation of Bureau of Corpora
tions, which marks the beginning of
Federal control over the huge cor
porations doing an interstate busi-
ness, the employers liability law. the
safety appliance law, the law limiting
the working hours of railway en-
ployes, the meat inspection law, the
denatured, alcohol law, the anti-re-
bate law, the laws increasing the
powers of the Department of Justice
in dealing with those, regardless of
wealth and power, who infract the
law, the law making the government
liable for injuries to its employees,
the the laws under which the Pana-
ma Canal was acquired and is being
built, the Philippines administered.
and the navy developed, the laws
creating permanent Census Bureau
and reforming the consular service
and the system of naturalization, the
law forbidding child labor in the Dis
trict of Columbia, the law providing
commission under which our cur
rency system can be put on thor
oughly satisfactory basis, the laws
for the proper administration of the
forest service, the laws for the ad-
mission of Oklahoma and the de-
velopment of Alaska, the great ap-
propriatfons for the development Of
agriculture, the legal prohibition oi
| campaign contributions from corpor.
ations-all these represent but 8
| portion of what has been done BY
Congress, and form a record of sub
| stantial legislative achievement il
harmony with the best and most pro
gressive thought of our people.
It is urgently necessary, from th'
standpoint of the public interest, t.
elect Mr.. Taft. and a Republican
Congress which will support him
and they seek election on a platform
which specifically pledges the party
alike in its executive and legislativ,
branches, to continue and develol
the professed but acted upon durin,
these seven years. These policies cal
be successfully carried through onl
by the hearty cooperation of tn
President and the Congress in bot
it's branches, and its is therefore pc
culiarly important that there shoul
obtain such harmony between them
To fail to elect Mr.. Taft would be
calamity to the country; and it woul
! be folly, while electing him, yet a
the same time to elect a Congress
: hostile to him, Congress which un
der the influence of partisan leader
ship would be certain to thwart an
battle him on every possible occasion
: To elect Mr.. Taft, and at the sam
time to elect a Congress pledged t
support him, is the only way
: which to perpetuate the policy {
the government as now carried OF