The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-05

t.t sherman introduced colonel
Roosevelt. H.m. II.I..
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Uuf chairman. colonel Roosevelt
TH. colonel took OBJ. choir and
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The Colonel looked simIabt out Boz tbe
auditorium bH Taco f.raamod with
Precipitation and hls jaw was nrmI,
aDl Republicans of tlo state off Sew
York. hp began, 90 thank YOU for the
honor Chat SOU have conferred upon
mo and tho confidence you have DIS.
played .n mo, and an of my power
win De oNcrtcd so that you will not
have cause now cor hereafter To- regret
what YOU have done
We come here feeling that we have
the right to appeal ,C the people from
/ the standpoint alike OF national and
State achievement.
"ln the last eighteen months a long
list of laws, embodying legislation
most heartily to be commended as
combining wisdom with progress, has
been enacted by Congress and
approved by President Taft The
amendments to the interstate com
merce law; beginning Of ma
| tiOnal legislative program for
for the exercise of the taxing power in
connection with the big corporations
! doing an interstate business; the ap-
! pOintment of a commission to frame
measures that do away with the evils
of over-capitalization and improper
! and excessive isues of stocks and
bonds; the law providing for publicity
of campaign expenses; the establish
ment of the maximum and minimum
tariff provisions, and the exceedingly
able negotiation of the Canadian and
other treaties in accordance there
with; the Inauguration of the policy
of providing for disinterested revi-
| sion 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
protecting the consumer from eXces.
sive prices and to securing the Ameri-
can producer and especially the Ameri-
can wage-worker, what will represent
the difference of cost of production in
countries where labor is less literally
rewarded; the extension of the laws
regulating safety appliances for the
protection of labor; the creation of a
bureau of mines-these and similar
laws, backed up by executive action,
reflect high credit upon all who sue
ceeded in putting them in their pre-.
sent shape upon the statute books;
they represent an earnest of the
achievement which is yet to come;
and the benefcence 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, upright and distinguished
1 President, William Howard Taft
Turning from the nation to the
State we find that during the term OF
office of Governor Hughes an extra
ordinary amount of wise and good le
gislation in the interest of all the PEG
pie has been put upon the statute
books and the standard of business
integrity and efficiency in the manage.
ment of the several State departments
has been steadily raised.
RascaIs Turned Out.
"Of course, with a party as long in
control of Nation and State as ours
has been, there have been individual
instances of misconduct and cOrrup.
ton. But there is no need Of any 9th.
err party raising the cry of Turn the
rascals out for we have turned our
own rascals out, and wherever rascal
ity is found to exist in the future we
will be even more prompt to punish
any one of our own party adherents
than an adherent Of another party, be-
cause we feel a peculiar responsible
ity in dealing with the man who not
only degrades himself and the public
service, but discredits our own party
| by belonging to it.
81 believe in the party to which we
belong because | believe in the prin-
ciples for which the Republican party
stood in the days of Abraham Lincoln;
and, furthermore, and especially, be-
cause / believe in treating these prin-
ciples not as dead, but as living.
Empty Qualification of our past