The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-09-25
NATIONS HOPE IN TAFT.
President Roosevelt Says Defeat
Would Mean Public Calsmity.

Oyster Bay. N. Y, Sept. 20.-That a
failure to elect w. H. Taft President
and Congress pledged to support him
and his policies would be public Ca
lamitv is the declaration of President
Roosevelt in letter made public to-
day. The letter, which says the prob
lem before the country is more than a
partisan matter, is addressed to Will
lam B. Mckinley, chairman of the
Republican congressional committee, in
New York, and is dated Sept o.
Cooperation of the various commit
tees in the endeavor to get party leaders
and Independent citizens on the stump
is urged, and it is insisted that all who
haye the interests of the country at
heart unite to secure the election of a
President and Congress certain to carry
on the legislation needed by the nation.
MUST CONTINUE WORK.
The President points to the construc;
tive work done and says its continuance
can be secured only by the election of
Taft and Republican Congress. The
letter follows:
II have received your letter of Aug.
2S. agree with all that you say as to
the amount of affirmative and construc-
tive legislation for the social and eco
nomic benefit of our people which has
been accomplished by the Congress
during the last seven years. The law
establishing national system of irri-
cation was of vital importance and
stands in its line as second only to the
homestead law. The interstate COM
merce law has been amended 80 as to
make it new law, with threefold the
efficiency of the old law. The enact.
ment of the pure food law was of almost
or quite equal Importance.
THE creation of the Department of
Commerce and Labor, together with
the creation of bureau of corporations,
which marks the beginning of federal
control over the huge corporations doing
an interstate business, the EMPLOYERS
liability law, the safety appliance law,
the law limiting the working hours of
railway employees, the meat inspection
law, the denatured alcohol law, the
anti.rebate 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 laws
under which the Panama Canal was
acquired and is being built, the Phil
ippines administered, and the navy
developed, the laws creating a perma-
nent census bureau and reforming the
consular service and the system of
naturalization, the law forbidding child
labor in the District of Columbia, the
law providing a commission under
which our currency system can be put
on thoroughly satisfactory basis, the
laws for the proper administration of
the forest service, the laws for the ad-
mission of Oklahoma and the develop
ment of Alaska, the great appropria-
tions for the development of agricul-
ture, the legal prohibition of campaign
contributions from corporations-all
these represent but portion of what
has been done by congress, and form
record of substantial legislative achieve
ment in harmony with the best and
most progressive thought of our people.
TAFT NEEDED BY NATION
1t is urgently necessary, from the
standpoint of the public interest, to
elect Mr.. Taft, and Republican Con-
gress which will support him; and they
seek election on platform which
specifically pledges the party, alike in
its executive and legislative branches,
to continue and develop the policies
which have been not merely professed
but acted upon during these seven years.
These policies can be successfully car
ried through only by the hearty CO.
operation of the President and the
Congress in both it's branches, and it is
therefore peculiarly important that
there should obtain such harmony
between them.
ITO fail to elect Mr.. Taft would be
calamity to the country, and it would
be folly, while electing him, yet at the
same time to elect Congress hostile to
him, Congress which under the in
fluence of partisan leadership would be
certain to thwart and battle him on
every possible occasion. To elect Mr..
Taft, and the same time to elect'a Con-
gress pledged to support him. is the
only way in which to perpetuate the
policy of the government as now carried
on. 1 feel that all the aid that can be
given to this policy by every good citi-
zen should be given; for this is far more
than merely partisan matter.
Both your committee, and the ma
tional committee, of which Mr.. Hitch
cock is chairman, are endeavoring to |
secure the active cooperation on the |
stump of senators and congressman,
party leaders and independent citizens |
generally. most heartily join in urg-