The San Francisco call., 1910-09-28

We come here feeling that we
have the right to appeal to the
people from the standpoint alike of
national and state achievement
In the last is months a long list
of laws, embodying legislation
most heartily to be commended as
combining wisdom with progress
has been senacted by congress and
approved by President, Taft. The
amendments to the interstate COM
merce law; beginning of national
legislative program for the exercise
OF the taxing power in connection
with big corporations. doing an
interstate business; the appointment
of a commission to frame measures
that do away with the evils sof
overca pitaliZationg and improper and
excessive issues of stocks and
licity of campaign expenses; the
establishment of the maximum and
minimum tariff provisions, and the
exceedingly able negotiation of the
cordance herewith. the Inaugural
uon OF the policy of providing for
a disinterested revision of tariff
schedules through a high class
commission of experts, which will
treat each schedule purely on its own
merits, with. a view both. to pro-
tecting the consumer from excessive
prices and to securing the American
producer, and especially the Ameri-
can wage worker, what will repre-
sent the difference of cost of pro-
duction in countries where labor is
less literally rewarded; the extern
sion of the laws regulating safety
appliances for the protection of
mines-these and similar laws,
backed up by executive action. re-
fleet high, credit upon all who sue
ceeded lin putting them in their
books; they represent an earnest of
the achievement which is yet to
come; and the beneficence and far
reaching Importance of this work
done for. the whole people measure
the credit which is rightly due to
the congress and to our able, up
right and distinguished president,
William Howard Taft.
Turning from the nation. to the
state we find that during the term
of office of Governor Hughes an ex-
traordinary amount of wise and
good legislation in the interest of
all the people has been put upon
the statute books, and the standard
of business integrity and efficiency
in the management of the several
state departments has been steadily
raised.
OF course, with a party as long in
COnlIOl OIL nation ana state as ours
has been, there have been individual
instances of misconduct and cor
ruption. But there is no need of
any other party raising the cry of
Turn the rascals outi" for we have
turned our own rascals out; and
wherever rascality is found to exist
in the future we will be even more
prompt to punish any one of our
own party adherents than an ad-
herent of another party. because we
.-f1 q,
dealing with the man who not only
degrades himself and the public
service, but discredits our own
party by belonging to it.
believe in the party to which
We belong because I believe in the
principles for which the republican
party stood in the days of Abra-
ham Lincoln; and, Furthermore and
especially, because believe in
treating these principles not as
dead, but as living. Empty glorifi-
cation Of our past amounts to less
than nothing If we put 1t forward
as an excuse for not doing our duty
In the living present. We can de-
serve the confidence of the people
by proving in deed, as well as in
word, that we face the problem of
dealing with political and business
corruption and of working for So
cial and economic justice and for
the betterment of the conditions of
life and the uplifting of our people
with the same fervor and sincerity
that Lincoln and his followers
brought to the great tasks allotted
TO them In their day