The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-02-13
SHOWS Ills ADMINISTRATION
Is HOSTILE TO THE TRUSTS
Again Declares Payne-Aldrch Tariff the Best
Ever Passed---How the Party Has Kept
Pledges in Platform Of 1908--'Great
Lincoln Dinner in New York

New York, Feb. Eff the en-
forcement of the law is not consistent
with the present methods of conduct
ing busines, then the methods must
be changed to conform TO the law
was Taft's answer to the Wall Street
cry OF panic 1t was made to
cheering audience Or hundreds of
prominent Republicans tonight at the
annual Lincoln Day dinner of the Re
publican Cub in this city, at the Wal
dorf-Astoria Hotel.
Governor Hughes shared the hon.
ors with the president. Taft dis
cussed the platform pledges and how
they should be kept At the concm-
sion OF detailed argument on how
the Republican party is redeeming rs
pledges, he reached the utteTances
awaited with the greatets interest,
when he declared that the admins.
tration will not "foolishly run amuck
and destroy values and confidence for
the pleasure of doing so .
licans to take courage from their Oh
ponents' demoralized condition.
Taft Said THE birthday of the
man whose memory we celebrate IS
an appropriate occasion for renewing
our expressions of respect and affec-
tion for this Republican party, and
our pledges to keep the part it plays
in the country's history as high and
useful as it was during the admins
tration of Lincoln. The trials he had
10 undergo as president, the political
storms which the party had to weather
during the Civil war, divisions in the
party Itself between the radical and
ariti-slayery clements, and those who
were most conservative in observing
the constitutional limitations. dwarf
and minimize the trials through which
the party Is now passing, and restore
sense of proportion 10 those who
allow themselves to be daunted and
lar confidence thought to be indicated
by the tone of the press.
I'm what respect has the Republ
can party failed in its conduct of the
government and the enactment of
laws to perform its duty? 1t was re-
turned to power year ago last No
vember by very large majority,
after a campaign in which it made
certain promises in its platform
Those promises it has either substan-
TALLY complied with, or Is about TO
perform within the present session
OF congress-"
Tariff Revision.
Taking up the promises of the last
Republican Platform seriatim, Taft
quoted the tariff plank which declared
unequivocally for a revision by n
special of congress Immediately fol.
lowing the inauguration of the presi-
dent reasserting the protective prin-
ciple, favoring the establishment OF
maximum and minimum rates, and
adding that the Republican policy is
20 preserve, without excessive duties,
that security against foreign competl.
tioN to which the American manufac.
turers, farmers and producers are
entitled, also to maintain the high
standard of living of the American
wage earners. the most direct bene-
ficiaries of the protective system.
The president said: 1--WE did revise
the tariff. 1t is impossible to revise
the tariff without awakening active
participation in the formation OF
schedules OF those producers whose
business will be effected by the
change. Nothing was expressly said
in the platform that it was to be a
downward revision The implication
that it was to be generaly downward
however. was fairly given by the fact
that those who upheld the protective
system defend It by the claim that
after industry has ben established by
shutting out foreign competition, do
mestic competition viii lead to re
duction OF price so as to make ths