White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-09
PARTY PLEDGES
ARE FULFILLED
IN A GREAT SPEECH AT NEW
YORK PRESIDENT TAFT TELLS
WHAT REPUBLICAN PARTY
HAS ACCOMPLISHED.

National League OF the R|epuDllcan
clubs, which it has been said will be
his last political utteranee for some
time to come President Taft ably
summed up the work of the present
administration showing how party
pledges have been redeemed and
bringing out In a forceful way the
good accomplished by the last session
of congress. The speech in part Is as
follows.
am here because | believe this
league is a most important aid In the
upbuilding and defense of Republican
principles. As president, / perfer to
avoid partisan controversy, but there
are occasions. and 1t seems to m the
present Is one, when 1t is not i'm
proper for me to discuss the issues
soon to be considered and decided by
the electorate.
In the pursuit of promises made in
its national platform, the Republican
party in the short period of Is
months presented to the public as ac-
eomplished facts, the following most
important Legislation and executive
action:
The powers of the interstate com
merce commission were enlarged. The
commission was empowered TO sus-
pend any proposed increase of rates
until the shipper shall have a chance
to be heard as TO its reasonableness.
Interstate telegraph and telephone
companies were brought within the
regulation OF the commission
A new court of commerce was pro-
yided in order that shippers and rail
ways might secure prompt decisions.
Railway employees were protected
by a new safety appliance law.
The employers liability act was
perfected.
An inquiry into issuance of rail-
way stocks and bonds was Inaugural
ted.
An inquiry into workingmen's COM
pensation for injuries received was
instituted.
A new customs court was estab-
lished.
A postal savings bank system was
authorized.
A corporation tax was adopted.
which is an important source of re-
venue and a new and effective
method of assisting the government
in supervising corporations.
Two battleships were added 10 the
navy; a bureau OF mines was estab-
lished.
Seventy million acres of the public
domain Were legally Withdrawn from
entry.
Twenty million dollars in bonds
were authorized to complete reelama-
nation projects, after a board of
army engineers now at work should
complete its investigation of existing
projects.
Enlarged appropriations were made
to survey public lands.
A definite commitment was made
against the piece meal or pork
barrel" system of river and harbor
improvement.
New Mexico and Arizona We're ad-
yanced toward statehood.
A peace commission was authoriz-
ed.
An Investigation into business
methods of conducting the govern
ment was begun.
The appropriations for the current
year were cut s26. 600 600 below the
appropriations of the year before.
fhe tariff was revised without the
usual disturbance of business. Be
cause of its reduction of tariff rates
its maximum and minimum provis-
ions. the free trade IL for the
hilippines. its fine event produc-
ing qualities, the Payne law is a
creditable bin.
Our platform promised to revise
the tariff Immediately and also to
revise Ii to accord with the difference
between the cost of production at
home and abroad.
The two promises proved some
what inconsistent. in that immediate
revision conforming to such a plan
was impractieable, because the infor-
nation needed was lot at once avail
able; but the inconsistency was met
by the provision of a tariff board to
report the necessary facts.
The new tariff commission for the
work of which S250,000 was ap-
propriated, has already completed its
preliminary report and the commits
sion is now at work in this country.
| have authorized the chairman to
hdhe Il puDllc statement OF the pur-
poses and methods of the commission
but ] have directed him not to make
that statement until after the election
because in so far as possible. | desire
the tariff commission from its very
inception to be kept free from the
vicissitudes of partisan politics so that
1t will gain the respect and the con
fidence of the whole country, regard
less of party lines.
Finally, since the bill passed A.,
nearly all Republican candidates for
congress and Republican state plat
forms generally have declared that
hereafter when the tariff shall be re-
vised by Republicans. II shall be re-
vised one schedule at a time, instead
of by a general revision of the entire
tariff.