New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-28

L liSil 1 IdlSC III
Saratoga Sprin.s N Y. Sept N--Mr
Roosevelt in his speech following his cleo
ton as temporary chairman OF the Repun-
lican State Convention, said:
I'VE come here feeling that we have the
right to appeal % the people from the
standpoint alike Of national and state
achievement During 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
n1erce law: beginning of a national legis
lative programme fer the exercise OF the
taxing power in connection with big cor
pcrations doing an Interstate business; the
appointment of a commission TO frame
n Treasures that do away with the evils or
decentralization and Of improper and ex-
cessive issues of stocks and bonds: the law
providing for publicity of campaign ex-
penSes: the establishment of the maximum
and minimum tariff provisions and the
exceedingly able negotiation OF the Cana
dian and other treatie. in accordance there
with: the Inauguration of the policy OF
providing for a disiterested revision of
tariff schedules through a high class COM
mission of experts. which Will treat each
schedule purely on fits own merits, with a
view both to protecting the consumer from
excessive prices and to securing the Amer
lean producer, and especially the American
wage worker, what viii represent the diff
ference of cost in production here as COM
pared with the cost of production in coun-
tries where labor is less literally reward
ed: the extension of the laws regulating
safety appliances for the protection of
labor: the creation Of a bureau Of mines
these ard similar laws backed up by ex-
ecutive action reflect high credit upon all
who succeeded In putting them in their
present shape upon the statute books; they
represent earnest of the achievement
which is yet to come; and the beneficence
and farreaching 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
President. William Howard Taft.
Praise for Governor Hughes.
Turning from the ration to the state. we
find that during the term of service OF
Governor Hughes an extraordinary amount
of wise and good legislation in the interest
of all the people has been put upon the
statute books. and the standard of bust
ness integrity and efficiency in the man
agement of the several state departments
has been steadily raised.
The Legislature has passed. and the
Governor has signed. act establishing
the principle of compensation for injuries
TO working men In extra hazardous occu-
pations. an act which. 1 trust. will steadily
L., In
nection with which the investigating COM
mission is doing work OF extraordinary
value: acts requiring sanitary conditions
in factories and safeguarding the employees
and limiting the hours of employment for
minors; acts strengthening the semi
monthly pay law. and providing for the
regulation of employment agencies: acts
strengthening and extending the provisions
Of the corrupt practices law: strengthen
ing the law against racetrack gambling;
providing for the protection OF the forests
and the creation of Palisades Park: pro-
viding for regulating motor traffic, for
regulating telegraph and telephone COM
panies and for effectually supervising in
surarce companies. For these and for
many similar laws and for the executive
action which made them effective. more
thanks are due to the legislative body and
to the unf1inching resolution and fidelity
to a high standard of duty OF Governor
Charles E. Hughes.
Cleansing the Party.
"Of course. with a party as long in con-
troll of nation and state as ours has been
there have been Individual instances of
misconduct and corruption. But there is
no need of any other party raising the cry
lie for TIA H1yr
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
adherent of another party. because we feel
peculiar responsibility in dealing with
the man who not only degrades himself
and the public service. but discredits our
own party by belonging to It. Any man
holding legislative or executive position
who is false to his oath of office, who is
guilty Of misfeasance or malfea sance. we
hold to be- traitor to the whole people.
and we have not permitted and will not
permit any such man to remain in office
where IL is in our power TO remove him.
II believe in the party to which we be-
long, because I believe in the principles
for which the Republican party stood in
the days of Abraham Lincoln; and, fur
thermore. and especially. because I believe
in treating those principles not as dead
but as living We best show our loyalty
to the memory of Lincoln and the princi-
pies for which Lincoln stood. not by treat
ing II and them from the standpoint of
historic interest in what Is dead. but by
treating them vital, as alive to-day, and
by endeavoring 10 meet the problems Of the
present, the new problems of our day, I'm
exactly the spirit in which he and those
with him met the new problems
of their day.
Empty glorifcation of our past amounts
to less than nothing If We put II forward
as an excuse for not doing our duty in
the living present. The mighty memories
OF the past are of only as they serve
to spur us on TO work in the present. We
can deserve the confidence of the people,
not by stating that our forefathers pre-
served the Union and freed the slaves, but
by proving in deed well in word that
we face the problem of dealing with polti-
cal and business corruption. and of work
ing for social and economic justice and for
served. He knows no law, and In his mad |
haste 10 get TO end makes chaos of /
order, grieves the judicious. and when he