The Nevada County picayune., 1908-08-27
TAFT APPEALS ID SOUTH
REPUBLICAN NOMINEE TELLS VlRGINIANS HOW PRESENT
 POLICIES HELP THEM.
GIVES TARIFF AS INSTANCE
He Argues That No Other Part Of the Country Is More Interested in Protection-Raps William
 J. Bryans Ideas.

Hot Springs, Va, Aug 22.-With a review of the work of President Roosevelt in office, William H. Taft, Republican presidential nominee ap- pealed to the solid south in speech here Friday to break away from the Democratic party.
 He argued that the south was as much interested in reasonable pro tective tariff as any other section of the country. He declared that a great many southern Democrats are op- posed to the present leadership of their party and would not be sorry if it were defeated.
 He answered Mr Bryan's slogan, Shall the People Rule?' by arguing that through President Roosevelt their will had been carried out. He re- viewed the laws passed by Republican congresses as proof.
 Finally he appealed to southern Re publicans to organize and nominate good tickets.
 Blames Wilson Bill for Panic.
 Reviewing the record of the Demo cratic party from the time of the last Democratic administration, 1893, Mir. Taft sad:
 Tt repealed the Mckinley tariff bill passed in 1890 and enacted the Cor manWison tariff bill of 1893. With the prospect of a Democratic tariff nd ho of the Gorman-Wilson tariff bill sub- sequently passed. a period of indus trial depression set in which con tinued through the next presidential campaign of 1896.
 The remedy for this depression as proposed by the Democratic party un- der its present leadership was change from the gold standard of cur rency and value which was the measure of all pecuniary obligations, to a silver standard-a change which would have scaled the debts of all by quite 50 per cent and would have produced a financial crash in which the business disaster would only have been exceeded by the injury to our national financial honor"
 As soon as the Republican party came into power in 1897. he said. 1t repealed the Gorman-Wilson tariff bill and enacted the present Dingley tar if bill and with the assurance of an honest monetary standard confidence was restored and period of business expansion and prosperity followed to an extent never before known in the history of the world
 Takes Credit for Good Wages.
 Wages were never higher, he de clared, and the average standard of living of wage earners, farmers and of the business men in point of com. fort and of enjoyment of life was ad- vanced beyond precedent.
 Attending this great prosperity abuses developed growing out of the dishonesty of some prominent men entrusted with the management of the business of others and out of greed of financial power of some, stimulat- ed by the enormous successes incident to the combination of capital in large corporations
 These abuses, said MT. Taft, chiefly took the form of the violation of the antitrust laws and the granting of re bates and discrminations by railways to large shippers. When the extent of these evils was brought home to the people, he said, President Roose- welt evoked the attention of congress and the public to them and proceeded to enforce the laws then on the stat