The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-11-09
Not Prejudiced Against Labor
Because
G0MPERS OPPOSED HIM
Will Seek to Give 1t Equality Of oppor-
tunity and No Special Privileges
Promises a Revision Of
the Tariff.

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Sunday World prints a copyrighted in
teryiew with Mr., Taft as follows;
MIR. Taft was on the road in the
campaign forty-one days, and spoke from
seven 60 eighteen times day, with the
exception OF Sundays, in all making AIS
speeches. When all was over | asked
him If he would not tell the people
through The World eoncretely what they
migia expect ii he became president. He
consented to do so. and what he said
prepared. and on Thursday submitted II
to him for revision. As il came from
his hands, here is the statement OF the
next president of his purposes:
"A Republican victory means primar,
lily that the Roosevelt administration is
approved by the American peolpe In the
enormous business development Of the
last twelve years there crept in corpor.
ate abuses, lawlessnsss Of great corpora.
tions, among the railroads, and infidelity
10 financial trusts There came among
the people a moral awakening, a quick
ening Of the public conscience, and the
exponent Of that feeling, the man who
led public opinion and who guided its
expression, was Theodore Roosevelt. He
asked Congress TO help him with needed
legislation, and ii did and in few short
years steps have been taken to stamp
out those abuses--a change has come
over our great business corporations and
railways that il is hard TO overstate.
There is more to be done along this
line, not so much in the way Of oriEinat.
ing legislation--for the path has been
blazed--but in the development of ma
chinery for the efficient enforcement of
measures now on the statute books, and
some legislation making more certain the
exact and prompt discovery Of corporate
evils asd their prompt and just correc-
ton and punishment.
Great corporations-ca them trusts,
if that is the popular term-when con
Quoted within the law are a considerable
part Of the force that makes for the
prosperity Of the country. / am in favor
OF combinations Of capital, just as am
in favor Of combinations OF labor, when
those combinations are rightly conducted.
would no more think of destroying a
corporation TO cure evils that il might
contain than a physician would think Of
cutting OF a mans head to cure cold
in that particular part of his body. But
/ would cure the evil, and the earlier all
combinations Of wealth understand that
under Republican administration they
will be held strictly accountable to the
law the earlier win business conditions
gets on basis that will be solid foun-
dation for the building Of new pros
perity
I intend to carry out to the best Of
my ability the Roosevelt policies that
work for the correction of evils in bust
ness, without running the business itself,
on which the livelihood and happiness
of millions Of men and women VINO have
not furnished the capital depend
My record on labor, my attitude
toward labor, were misrepresented from
the beginning Of the campaign | believe
that | convinced the intelligent labor men
of the country that / had been misrepre
scented. / proved to them that, far from
being an enemy Of the workingman.
was not only his friend so long as he
conducted himself within the law, but
that further. while on the bench, in an
opinion, laid the foundation for the
and effective labor union as it
is conducted to-day
"A fear was expressed at the close OF
the campaign that Mr.. Gompers' oppo-
sition to me would prejudice me against
labor generally, and that in case OF my
election labor would be either ignored
or antagonized actively at the White
House. | have been associated with
President Roosevelt in the last four
years, aiding him to devise the legisla
tive remedies that he could recommend
in the aid Of labor. He has honored me.
BY consulting me every time. and want