Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-07-11
MURPHY TALKS To THE
VOTERS OF THE STATE
Continued from page 1.y

tons to work with him. He has
brought the great ship smoothly up
to her dock, with the richest results
that n session of congress ever
presented to the American people.
This republican congress has
given the American people a rail-
road bill which is wise and strong
and safe beyond previous conception.
The three great provisions of this
bill are:
That it not only puts railroad
rates directly under government
control, but 1t forbids the raising of
rates until after the Commerce Com
mission has passed on them.
That it creates a special COM
merce court to which the people can
instantly appeal with any complaint
against railroad charges.
That it provides a special investi-
eating committee on the issue of
railroad stocks, that the watering of
securities may be prohibited. and
that the people may know the values
of the stocks which they buy In the
market.
THE republican has
given the American people another
great advantage In their use of pub
lie service corporations, by bringing
the telegraph and telephone compa-
mics under the rule of the interstate
commerce act.
This republican congress has
given the American wage-worker
the absolute insurance of his bank
deposits by creating" the system of
postal savings banks, and there Is no
Bryan-Oklahoma joker which re-
quires depositors to make good the
losses. The government itself is
pledged not only to produce every
dollar that is deposited, but to pay
interest on it,
This republican congress has
shewn it's devotion to the great COM
mon interests OF the people in many
ways.
1T has placed a special tax OF
thirty or forty millions a year on
corporations.
"It has passed a tariff bill which
has been declared by President Taft
the best tarir bill over passed-of
which more later-and 1t has given
power to the Tariff Board to ~investi-
gate the differences in the producing
costs of dutiable goods here and
abroad, that the duties may be ad-
justed to those differences. and the
American tariff become absolutely a
tariff for the protection Of American
wages.
at has authorized a twenty-mtl
lion-dollar bond Issue for the prompt
completion of great irrigation works.
1T has created the bureau of
mines, to protect miners from acct
dent.
'It has made a strenuous law for
the use of safety appliances on rail-
roads, and requiring all common
carriers to furnish detailed reports
of accidents to the Interstate Com
MERGE Commission.
1T has made drastic regulations
for the prevention of collisions at
sea.
ut has made better laws for the
conservation of natural resources
than the most extreme devotee to
conservation ever thought out-such
as reserving coal deposits to the
government while granting settlers a
title to the soil-such as legalizing
the withdrawal of water-power sites
already made at a venture, and Civ
ing the President-not a subordi-
nate officer-the full power to order
any further withdrawal that the in
terests of the people at large may
demand.
This republican congress has
added the last two stars to the Am
erican flag in giving statehood to the
only remaining territories of Arr
and New Mexico.
ut has provided for the raising Of
the Maine and the honorable inter-
ment of her sacrificed sailors.
"It has authorized q substantial
increase In the navy.
ut has created the magnificent
Glacier National Park In Montana,
and safeguarded the big-tree forests
OF California.
Il must not fail to speak OF the
business economies inaugurated In
various departments of the govern
ment, OF the prosecution of sugar
trust thieves and the honest collec-
ton OF duties st our ports of entry;
of the protection of the seal fisher
les, OF the compulsory publicity OF
contributions, of the gem
"a Va RAOFA5ASA AOA tAE R&ObC(SkOu Vi
of the reforms In the
government, of the laws
greatly better the condition of
the Indians, of the stringent laws
the adulteration OF chemi-
Gals, of penalties enacted against
the white slave trade, and of many
other regulations in the interest of
safety and morality. of uni
Yersal justice and fairness.
mo congressional majority in the
history OF this republic ever went
back to the voters with such a mag
nidcent record of wise and safe and
noble and progressive things done.
Once more the republican party mas
to the occasion, met the de-
and embodied the beat pur-
poses of the age In Just and generous
laws, and the nation Is profoundly
Indebted for this great work to the
kindly and courteous and far-seeing
and u~nflinching leadership of WIZ
liam Howard Taft, BY his works
shall ye know himl'
They are great works.
FRANKLIN MURPHY.