The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-25
WASHINGTON GLAD TO
WELCOME TAFT'S RETURN
Capital Is Humming Again With the Chief
Among the Busiest of the Busy
Officials.

years, ought to be in q pretty good
position to tell what the Roosevelt poll
icies are. His word ought to be more
authoritative on the Interpretation and
execution of Roosevelt policies than
that of Jim Jones or John Smith, who
used to be taken in 1T the Roosevelt
side door to gather inspiration, which
he was expected to demonstrate to the
outside world, but is now in high
dudgeon because President Taft does
not show him the same distinguished
consideration.
Insurgents Active.
The country will hear a deal about
President Taft's prior right to inter
pref the Roosevelt policies within the
next few months. The insurgents are
rushing down to Washington, some Of
them claiming to be under the Roose-
veltian banner. This cabinet officer
and that cabinet officer is being as
sailed because he is thought to be
reactlonary, and even there are grum-
blings from Rooseveltian quarters
against the President himself But the
answer of the President s friends, very
| naturally, will be that he is the best
| judge of what Roosevelt would have
done. That argument will be hurled
against the insurgents. The regulars
will not hesitate to use it for all it is
| worth, because the insurgents are com
ing fol the avowed purpose of over
| turning the regulars in senate and
house and of keeping Senator Aldrich
/ and Speaker Cannon in hot wafer right
up to the day of the adjournment of
| tho fort bnn
Up to Congress.
| And incidental to that claim of the
| President s orthodoxy in Roosevetian
| interpretations, he proposes to put the
responsibility right up to congress He
! has been telling his audiences that the
complaints they make can be remedied
| by legislation. 1t is imperative that
| the President observe the law. Con
gress is to him the expression of the
| popular will and he must accept that
| expression as he finds it in the statute
| books. But if congress will give the
t interstate commerce commission add
| tional authority, he, as the executive,
will go ahead and prevent competing
| railroads from owning one another s
stock, he will restrict the issuance of
railroad securities. check existing
abuses in railroad rates, permit labor
unions to conduct boycotts, modify the
issuance of injunctions against labor
men on strike, and so on.
In his annual message he is to recon-
mend the enactment of laws that will
authorize such a program, as well as
the granting of charters to federal cor
porations. 1t is hardly probable con
gress will do all that the President is
: going to ask them to do, but if they
/ fail he will claim that the blame is
upon them. As a consequence it may
be expected that when the congressional
campaign comes on next year the coun-
try will be told by thousands of elo-
quent tongues that the President did
all he could and what was not done is
the fault of congress not the fault of
the President. And another logical
consequence viii be an appeal for the
election of congressman who will carry
out President Taft's wishes about
! legislation.
Insurgents Consulted