The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-08-07
CANDIDATE RESPONDS
TO NOTIFICATION SPEECH

Cincinnati, Ohio, July 30.-Respond-
ang today to the speech of notification
delivered by Senator William Warner,
William II. Taft, republican nominee
for president, said in part:
Senator Warner and Gentlemen OF the
Committee am deeply sensible of the
honor which the republican national con-
vention has conferred on ma In the nonli-
nation which you formally tender. / ac-
cept 1t with full appreciation of the re-
Eponsibiiity il imposes.
Gentlemen, the strength of the reppbl.-
can cause in the campaign at hand Is IN
the fact that We represent policies es-
sential to the reform OF known abuses 10
the continuance OF liberty and true pros
perlty and that We are determined. as our
platform unequivocaliy declares, to main
tain them and carry them on.
The man who formulated the express
sion OF the popular conscience and who
led the movement for practical reform
was Theodore Roosevelt. lie la.d down
the doctrine that the rich yiolators of the
law should be ameEdable 10 restrain and
punish as the offender without wealth and
without influence, and he proceeded by
recommending Legislation and directing
executive action TO make that pFinc.ple
good in actual performance. He secured
the passage OF the so-catied rate IN de-
signed more effectively to RESTRAIN eNres-
sive and fix reasonable rates. and 10 pun
ish secret rebates and discrimination
which have beep general In the practice
OF the railroads. and which had done muca
TO enable unlawful trusts 10 drive cut of
business their competitors. 1T secured much
closer supervision OF railways trans
actions and brought within the operation
OF the same statute, express companies,
sleeping car companies, fast fceigat and
refrigerator lines, terminal railroads and
pipe lines and forbade IN future the com
bination OF the transportation AID salp-
ping business under one control Ia order
to avoid undue discrimination.
Mr.. Roosevelt has set high the standard
OF business morality and obedience TO Law
The railroad rate bill was more useful
possibly In the immediate moral effect Of
Its passage than even in the tegai effect
OF its very useful provisions. From KS
enactment dates the voluntary abandon
ment OF the practice OF rebates and
ordinations by the railroads and
return by their managers 10 obeG
law In the fixing OF tariffs. The pure fo9a
and meat inspection Laws and the prose-
cut!ons directed by the president order
moral effect In the general BUSINESS coat-
munity and have made II now the coan-
mon practice for the great irdusttt&t cor
poratlons to consult the law With a v.ew
In keeping within is provisions it ha4
also had the effect Of protecting and n
~couTagsng small and competitive cais-
panies 80 that they have been e.aablea 10
20 4 profitable business.
clinch What Has ncen pone.
The chief function OF The admir-. s..a:.e1
IN my judgment IL distinct frum Tie ,ro-
gresslve DEVELOPMENT which iaS D6t.i peg
formed by President Roosevelt.
Inc cnlel Iunctiou OK the next sutB MS
trAtion 10 to cornpiete and perfect ,ae ma
chinery by which these sial1.atAS ulas ee
maintained by which the laahreakers
may b. promptly restrained and punished
but which shall operate win saa.cien. a
curacy and dispatch TO interfere "
legitimate business as little as possihl
Ouch machinery 10 now adequate. Lnue.
the present rate bill and UNDER all liz
am~ndnents the burden OF the I.ter-
otato Commerce comm. ssion In sup.ryss-
INC aal regulating the operation III rail-
yeela u thds country has grown 50 heay.