The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14
THE TAFT PROGRAM.
President Taking People Into HIS
Confidence on ImpOrtant Matters.


1t is the purpose of President Taft.
in the addresses he is delivering to the
country during his tour, to take the
people into his confidence regarding
the various important matters which
he is to recommend to Congress in his
annual message, in December. He has
chosen the places where these speeches
are to be made with some care.
AS Boston, which financially is an
outpost of New York, he talked finan-
cial legislation, the reform of the cur
rency laws and limited that he might
be found favoring a central bank of
issue.
AT Chicago, where union labor is en-
throned, he talked unionism and the
laws delays. pledging himself to do all
that he could TO bring about such
reform in the administration of the
law as to give the poor man an equal
chance in the courts with the rich
man.
At Milwaukee, in the heart of the
section where postal savings banks are
in favor, he discussed that subject.
At Winona, in the heart of the in
surgent territory he uttered his de-
Tense of the Payne tariff law.
At Des Moines, where the question
of the better control by the general
government of the railroads has for
years been a leading public question,
he outlined his policy of further legis-
lative action on this great question,
not only meeting the requirements OF
the Roosevelt policy in this regard, but
going further and indorsing nearly
al of the proposed reforms with which
the Central West is familiar through
the attitude of Senator Cummins.
At Spokane in a few days he is to
discuss the policy of conserving the
natural resources of the country.
All these questions, and others which
the President will doubtless discuss in
The course of his trip, are of the high
est Importance to all the people. All
OF til. IN are to be brought to the fore
rext winter in Congress, and it is the
Presidents belief that they are to be
written into tie law of the land in his
administration.
The tariff is only one of these ques-
tons, not greater fundamentally than
the others, although seeming to be so
| because it has been taken up for set
Element by itself.
| 1t is the belief of the President that
when the tariff can be seen in its prop
er relationship to the numerous other
great questions which he will bring
to the attention of Congress in the
| December message, the country as a
whole will be measurably satisfied
with what was done at the special
| session of the present year.
Meanwhile, it is his desire, through
the speeches he is now making. to call
| attention to the fact that these other
questions are to come up, and to in
| vite the country to make such pre-
liminary study of them as will help
insure the enactment of legislation by
Congress.
In short, the President, unlike any
| particular section of the country taken
by itself, sees a great legislative pro-
gram spreading itself out for the in
spection of all the people. The tariff
| is but a single feature of that pro-
gram. He is able to take a national
instead of sectional view of this pro-
gram, and to realize that If he can Sc
cure at the hands of Congress things
| for which he will ask, all sections will
appreciate that genuine progress has
been made. What the Central West
| failed to get in the new tariff law, for
instance, he sees 1t will get in further
railroad regulation. or in some one or
more of the other bills which he hopes
to have Congress pass.
The presidential speeches of the
| present tour are for the purpose of ac-
quainting the people with what is COM
ing, and to invite their support of a
truly broad and ambitious legislative
program. Minneapolis Journal
| When the People Sleep.
| The belief that American municipali-
ties have been largely cleansed by the