Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-10-22
Taft Outlines Enough Policies on
His Trip to Give WorN ior
Whole Term.
HARD TASK FOR THE PRESIDENT
Opposition to Some Of His Ideas Is
Expected-One-Tenth OF Them as
Laws Would Be Record.
President Taft has already announc-

during the balance Of his term. Inc
policies already promulgated include
almost every issue upon which there
has been any considerable difference
of opinion between Republicans n
democrats and also between tact!chs
in the Republican party itself. Inc
scope of the leftover Roosevelt poll
cies, 50 far as they relate TO the lat
administration, has also been discuss
ed. writes Leroy T. Vernon, Washing
ton correspondent of the Chicago Dally
News.
Mr.. Taft has committed hinsel1 &c
the following policies:
Creation of a central bank or issue
which shall control the treasury re
serve, and take steps to alleviate cur
rency s~tringencies.
Creation of a postal savings oafh
system. y
doptio of the proposed amendment
to the constitution authorizing an IN
come tax, to be enforced only IN case
of national emergencies.
Passage of a tax upon net incomes
of corporations, q tax upo the inter-
est paid to bondholders.
Recommendation that no further
changes in the tariff be made during
this administration.
Correction of the evil OF swollen Tor
tunes by means of State inheritance
tax laws, rather than by u federal law
Amendments to the antitrust law
which shall apply exclusively to trade
monopoly.
Amendments to the Hepburn inter
-. ,,t ,yhioh will S9gre-
gate common carriers and subject
them to regulatory laws. apphc"oie
only to themselves.
Federal laws dealing with questions
relating to labor, including q federal
law against boycott and one relatins
to the issuance of injunctions.
Creation Of a court to pass upon p
peals from decisions fixing rates made
by the interstate-commeree commits
sion.
Authority for the commission to de-
termine the proper classification OF
merchandise.
Authority for the commission to mi
tate complaints of Discrimination in
rates.
Granting the commission power to
compel connecting carriers to unite in
forming through routes and to fix a
rate and a~pportionment thereof among
the carriers.
Prohibition of railroads to hold stock
in competing roads.
Federal regulation through the in
terstate-commerce commission of the
issue of railroad securities, which is
sues must be for legitimate purposes
and on a substantial basis.
Authority for railroads to make
4 rreementS on rates aDDrOVe0 by tla
commission.
Advocacy of q compulsory law re-
quiring interstate railroads to adopt
additional safety devices.
Appointment of a congressional COM
mission to investigate the cause Of
delays in the federal courts and to de-
velop a system which will secure quick
and cheap justice in the federal courts
and serve as a model for the States.
General conservation of national re-
sources.
Reclamation Of arid lands and the
issuance Of certificates for that pur-
pose.
Preservation of forests.
Deepening OF waterways.
:, Reorganization Of the public land
I system.
Passage of laws which would i'm
poSe IeSlTlCllOHS upon the transfer OF
water rights to private control, so as
, to limit the control of the grant to fix
: the rental to be paid and egulate the
rates to be charged.
I To separate the surface OF the land
! from the mineral contents thereof, and
I either lease on a royalty system or
sell coal and other deposits to miners.
Reorganization Of government de-
partments. particularly the depart
ments Of Justice. the COM
merce commission and the bureau OF
corporations, SC as to make the COM
mission a court, the department OF
Justice a prosecutor and the bureau OF
corporations an Investigator Of viola
tons OF the commerce laws.
enforcement Of the pure-fosd law,
In respect to which the department Of
Justice and the bureau of corporations
shall occupy the same position as UNI
der he nterstate-commerce act.
Clearer definitions of the statute re-
lating to business.
Z Prosecution and punishment Of ali
, violators of the law.
international peace and ads
and The development of closer rela-
tons with oriental nations.
: Ship subsidy for the deveiopment OF
q merchant marine, to he Maid for ont
of the profits OF the ocean mai SER
vice.
The job which the President has ON
his hands in the above is not an en-.
viable one. Already there is pro.
nounced opposition to the creation of
q central bank n of a postal savings
bank system. The campaign for the
, adoption of the income-tax amendment
to the constitution is already on and
Is being holly fought. particularly in
the Eastern States. The corporation
tax Is expected to have It's consti.
nationality questioned IN the nea,
future.
If President Taft succeeds / IN placing
On the statute books laws sustaining
) one-tenth of the policies for which he
has taken his Stand he will have
equaled the recGd of any recent ad.
m~dnistration.
The Comet Photographed.
, A reproducing photograph Of Hal.
tey's comet has been taken by Prof.
Frost and his Isl stants at the Yerkes.
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