The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-08-08
THE IDAHO SCIMITAR.

as to maintain the high water mark of alleged pro-
lection, is disappointing. 1t was believed that Mr.
Taft was possessed of radical intentions in
connection with the reform of the destructive abuses
that have grown out of excessive tariff levies.
He relents only when his mind dwells on his be-
loved ex-subjects of the Philippine Islands He
wants 100000 tons of their sugar to come in free
annually, thus meditating the exposure of the sugar
industry of the mountain states to the cheap Asatc
labor of his former pricpality This expression
is borrowed from the campaign vocabulary of the
American Protective Tariff league and is literally
republican denunciation
Mr.. Taft does not believe that the democratic
demand for the removal of duties from the like of
trust made articles is sane proposition and he
leans to the Hannaism of good trusts and bad
trust, with its attendant theory that it was better
for one innocent party to escape the msappcaon of
justice than that several guilty parties should be
punished.
Bad trusts he would have prosecuted criminal1y
IT is possible to separate the sheep from the goats
when passing them down the government chute
The candidate asks that the republican party be
taken faith in its alleged intention to pass laws
that will modify the rgors of the purely republican
laws rendering the injunction hardship in labor
circles. His party conspicuously refused in the
Chicago convention to give ear to the complaints of
labor in relation to the injunction and the arbitrary
application of contempt penalties.
He does not believe that the dignity of the courts
should be lowered by granting jury trials to work
ingmen charged with contempt and considers the
democratic platform reprehensib1y weak in its at
tempt to bestow the benefits of the jury system on
organized labor. While Mr. Taft has assumed a
benevolent general attitude towards the unionized
working forces of the land in his specific declara-
tons he reflects all the despotism of his party
which told the representatives of labor at Chicago
to go to Denver with their demands-that was
where they belonged.
Mr.. TaftS expressions the subject of currency
reform are about dense as those of the Chicago
platform and as chaotic the fulmnations of con-
gress 1t may therefore be concluded that he is
but one unit in the great majority which does not
know anything about the most important question
that confronts the repub1ic-how to make the money
of the country servicabe to all the people, instead
of very few of the people
Election of senator's by the direct application of
the ballot is not altogether a bad idea, according
to Mr. Taft, but it has been very much overworked
in the irresponsible forum of the people. He be-
leves that it is not a party question, possibly be-
cause the republican party has not adopted it.
In the speech of acceptance the ship subsidy
scheme of republican leaders in congress is en-
1orsed, the income tax demand is commended, ex-
oansion of the army and the navy is advocated and
avor expressed for the plan for the conservation
If natural resources
Mr.. Taft undertook to cover in his reply to the
notification committee, the omissions of the conserv-
tive platform of his party and to rebuke the radical
SIN of the platform of the democratic party 1t was
liffcut task for him to steer between the two ex-
remes of his party to stradde, to endorse to con-
lemn and remain in tune with the conflicting ele-
nents with which he has to contend within his own
olitical organization