The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-01
CANDIDATE TAFT.

~o0S iiaiihis W /iout iS'eA '"A the problems of Government which
 confront the co1try and what if any thing, is reqYred to successfully solve them. It i5 an incident to his campaign that /appears at the same time in
 the Capacity of the war secretary of the Roosevelt administration. As the / days roll into weeks and the weeks in
 to months it will be more and more
 realized that his preparation for the
 office of President of the United
 States has been unique and that loy- alty to an administration of which he is distinguished part is rather a source of strength than of weakness. As we have said before in the col un1ns of The Journal-C Courier. those who understand MT. Taft and are familiar with the clean processes of his mind were not surprised to again learn that he has no intention of turn ing turtle on the administration he has served so faithfully, even though the reward may be an unopposed nomina- ton for the presidency. We have ad- seeming to be the political ward of another, but we have been unable to see how he was Ito chuck" the policies of the Roosevelt administration with :. out laying himself justifiably open to the charge of discreditable disloyalty. It would be childish for him to assert that in minor matters he has been at times at variance with the judgment of President Roosevelt, which is prob ably true, for what counts and must continue to control his tongue is that in all of the major policies he has been heart and soul with President Roose- welt. It is doubtless true that had he been the President he would have em- ployed less strenuous methods to gain the ends sought, but the country upon reflection would have a very poor opinion of man who would attempt, under cover of such a distinction to present himself to it as the sort of inn provement over things as they are that support must be given him The fact is that MT Taft is in harmony with the en1 President Roosevelt has in view ..le enforcement of the laws of the country against rich and poor alike, l the prohibition of special favors and the raising of the standard of com mercial responsibility. He not only '0 does not seek to conceal that condi- tion of mind but he wishes it to be more and more understood. It is the attitude of an honest man who sees his duty only to perform it.
 MT. Taft in his Boston speech made 1t clear that he understands the causes of the recent crisis and the prevailing unrest. We have not had a clearer statement from any public man of the situation as it was, as it is, and as it is likely to be. He sets forth no undigested but theoretically attractive panacea for the ills of the hour He gives the idea of more elastic currency his approval but the need for that has been demonstrated out of the full force of personal ex- perience. The impressive feature of his address was that he finds in the suspension and non-enforcement of the laws of the land the birth of busi
 ness practices which have uniustlv advantaged one set of men at the sacrifice of another and brought the entire business world under the yoke of commercial tyranny. He would have the laws impartally administered. not in spirit of revenge and punishment for what has been done by the pirates of finance, but that the old order ot free commercial intercourse may he l re-established. He has no uuarre, with corporate organization, offers nc criticism of honestly acquired wealth "~ and wishes well to every form of hon. orable commercial effort His auarre is with the great combinations of can. ital which seek to use the mere size or the amount of the capital which they control to monopolize the busi ness in which they are engaged anc to suppress competition by methods akin to duress." Such undertaking should in his judgment and in tn, judgment of the great majority of tn, people of the country be restrained b, law. The government ownership O public utilities or their control in oth CT than private hands he opposes H upholds the principle of individualisn as opposed to that of socialism, tn encouragement of which he sees in tn loose enforcement of the law Els cape from the blighting enect of so cislisn he looks for in determine, policy of restraint as a consequenc of which abuses of corporate powe and discrimination shall become i'm possible. "No panic, however severe,