The Detroit times., 1908-08-21
TAFT ATTEMPTS TO-
SHOW PEOPLE
Do RULE
IN ANSWER TO BRYAN'S PARA.
MOUNT CAMPAIGN QUESTION,
POINTS TO MCKINLEY AND
ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATIONS.

HOT SPRINGS. Va, Aug. 2l.--
Nearly 5000 visitors came TO Hot
Springs today. to hear VIM. II. Taft
speak. In his address, Mr.. Taft an
swered Mr. Bryans paramount cam
paign question, shall the People
Rule?' and compared the efforts of
the Republican party TO meet the
abuses of the trusts and monopolies
with what the Democratic party has
tried to do. The speech also contain.
led an appeal 10 the Independent Dem
-the~sonth. a.
MIR. fart said in part;
The hast Democratic administration
entered upon It's labors In March. 1898.
ana gave up power under the mandate
or the people IN March. 1891 During
this period it repealed the Mckinley
tallH blll passed ia 1880 and enacted
the torinan-W ilsoH tarin bill OF 1898.
WIN the prospect OF a Democratic
tarln for revenue and under the opera
ZION or the German Wilson tarif bill
subsequently passed. period OF indus
trlal depression set In. which continued
through the next presidential campaign
OF 1896. Tine remedy for this depres-
sion. as proposed by the Democratic
party under It's present leadership. was
a change from the gold standard OF
CuIIthcy ana values, which was the
HIVUsUrC or Ttf UCUurrfrrt- o4,i4 sst4 Ions,
TO silver standard. change which
would have scaled the debts OF all by
quite 80 per cent and would have pro-
duCed financial crash in which the
business disaster would only have been
honor
when business "Expanded."
As soon as the Republican party came
INTO power I'm 1897, II repealed the Cor
man Wilson tariff bill and enacted the
present Dingley tariff bill. The main
tenance OF the financial honor OF this
country, the assurance of an honest
monetary standard and the operation OF
the new tariff led 10 such confden
IN the business community and encour-
aged so widely the investment of CAPT
tal that from 1897 to 1907 there fol-
lowed period or business expansion
and a prosperity never before known
in the history of the world.
There crcpt in abuses. The abuses
tnnk-ch4n4lr HE f+4+44f-uf ttTr VIOLATION Of
the antitrust law directed against
Inonopolies' Of Interstate commerce and
or the granting Of rebates and dis
elimination by railways 10 large ship
pTTs., lls-
bad grown was not brought home to
the people. whose attention. had been
absorbed In the prosperity ~ tro-eeaE--
try and in the problems arising in the
Spanish war and In the new response
bilities which followed II. until early In
the present administration, when rev
elationS the result of political investi-
cations by state and nation authorities.
showed them that change had arise
/ which called for a halt and for the
/
| over Interstate commerce carried on by
railroads and great Industrial corpora
tfuus which should keek- those -instru-
inequalities within the law.
II WAS then that Theodore Roosevelt.
VINO ma DTTT rfrctvri rr----r-4--+4t-lta
1910 called the attention OF congress
and tHF public TO those Ft,tTses-s.fsr.
asked for remedial legislation and by
exercise OF the executive power took
prompt steps himself to secure a more
thorough enforcement OF the law.
He called upon the Republican con-
gross which had been elected with him
w 1901 ana noblv did that congress re-
spond II made record for remedial
legislation along the lines recommend
cd by him which as he has himself said,
has never been equalled in our time.
pointing With Pride.
Bills were introduced in the next con-
gress aud I'm spite OF the continued OPP
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