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Stands SquareIy With Roosevelt |
PHILADELPHIA Inquirer.

Stands Squarely With Roosevelt |
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Secretary Taft discusses the issues
| fairly and squarely. This is his plat
| form. He does not depart from the
lines of the Republican platform as
adopted at Chicago, but naturally he
amplfics ard explains. He goes more
into detail There is no mistaking his
| position upon any one of the great
| quest ions of the day, and every per
soE interested in National rolitics-and
who is not ?-should take the time to
read and digest all that the candidate
! has said.
If Taft is elected President he will
| carry out the policies which have be-
| come known as the Roosevelt policies.
| A progressive development is the
way Judge Taft puts it. Praise of
| Roosevelt is a strong point of the
| speech. and he finds that the chief
hope of success in the present Contro-
versy must rest on the confidence
which the people of the country have
in the sincerity of the party's deciara-
ton in its Platform. that it intends to
continue his Roosevelts) policies
There is a conservative note run
ming throughout the speech which.
coming from Taft, will be accepted by
business interests as indicative of
sturdy effort to restore confidence.
while at the same time insisting on the
fufillment of the law.
Roosevelt in numerous speeches also
was conservative, denying that he was
the foe of great business enterprises.
ht,f
these protestations the big stick"
and conservative talk from the Presi-
dent did not always have the effect
that the President hoped that it might
Taft is just as insistent as is Roose-
welt that corporations and trusts must
come under the law, but his conscrva-
tlSm will carry weight He isn't going
to smash business. He is going t.
regulate it, and while he promises to
safeguard the people he promises at
the same time to restore business con-
fidcnce. a~%G
The railroad situation is handled
with absolute fairness. His manner of
explaining the physical valuation of
railway corporations for the informa-
ton of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission carries no menace such as the
position of Mr.. Bryan on the same
subject does
AS for trusts. those unlawfully doing
business must be restrained-not de-
stroyed outright-and made to con-
duct their affairs lawfully. He has
no use whatever for the Bryan-Demo-
cratic proposition that a removal of
tariff duties as a blow at a trust would
HIM, 1,l
would be to crush and bankrupt the
smaller competitors in the same line
of business. The direct application of
law he relies upon.
AS for the tariff question itself. he
has no sympathy with the Bryan plan
OF coming to revenue basis. Protec.
ton must stand as a principle and az
Dracticality. Protection should
amount to the difference between the
cost of production abroad and at home.
ami include, as matter of course, the
difference between the higher wages
paid in this country and the wage paid
abroad. But he believes in revision.
and at special session to be called
by him right after his Inauguration
Il revision which will reduce those
schedules that are too high and serve
nc good purpose to the public. and
raise such schedules as may be too
low. A consistent tariff is what he
aims at
Exceedingly clear is his position on
the injunction question. He upholds
the right of labor to organize, but de-
MES the right of anyone to destroy.
Unlawful injuries to business by use
of threats or methods of physical dur
ess or boycotts can only be adequate
ly rcmedied by injunctions to prevent
them. AS a rule injunctions are not
issued without notice. He suggests
that a law might be framed defining
with considerable particularly ana
emphasizing the exceptional character
of the cases in which restraining ord
ers may issue without notice ana
which shall further provide that when
issued they shall cease to be operative
beyond a short period, during which
tirne notice shall be served and
hearing had
The manner in which Judge Tart
handles Mr.. Bryan on this injunction
question is exceedingly enjoyable he
cuts the ground completely from uhoer
the Democratic proposition He shows
that it would DE the wealthy and I'M
scrupulous defendant who would
benefit from the injection Oh
a jury trial between all orders
of the court made after full hearing
and the enforcement of such orders.
He declares that never in the history
of the country has there been such an
insidious attack upon the judicial sys-
tenn.
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