The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-21
HEARST PRAISES
PRESIDENT TAFT
Says Chief Executive Has Done
More Than His Predecessor in
First Year-Critizes Roosevelt.

WASHINGTON, April 2l.-Wm. r.
| Hearst, the New York editor. issued
a statement last night over his own
signature in which he unqualifiedly
| IhdOT1es President TAFT and crftfcizes
President Roosevelt. He warns the
IN severe terms the administration OF
| President Roosevelt He warns the
nation against renewal of the poll
teal domination of the former presi.
dent.
The statement was issued after
! Hearst had spent half hour with the
president
NO one can talk with the presi-
dent without approaching and re-
specting his earnestness and SINGER
! ity," the statement proceeds. Per
sonally, | believe also In his efficiency.
| He has been one year in office. and he
has certainly accomplished more in
that one year than Roosevelt did in
his first year.
1T is hardly fair TO compare Taft's
one year with Roosevelt's seven, and
yet am not sure that even with that
the comparison might not be TO Taft s
advantage. Taft's methods are not
those OF Roosevelt, but then Taft will
probably not conclude his term with
| a panic
"On the whole II seems TO me that
quiet, earnest gentleman who came
into Office when the country was in
the slough of adversely and after one
year in Office, has placed the country
on the high road of prosperity, is quite
as valuabA a president as more
SNOWY and spectacular person who
found the country in the height OF
prosperity and left IL In the depths or
adversely
Mr. Hearst admits that he does not
charge Mr. Roosevelt directly with re-
sponsibility for the panic of 1907, nor
does he undertake to give Mr.. Taft
the entire credit for the restoration
of prosperity He declares, however,
that an administration which is pro-
ducing more dividends for business
men and finding work for the unem-
ployed should not be too carpingly
criticized for certain minor faults or
omission or commission
TAFT is carrying out Roosevelts
policies in the one way that they
ought TO be carried out. That is to
say, he is doing the things that Roose-
welt should have done, but did not do.
Taft is making the Roosevelt rail
road rate act complete and effective.
The Roosevelt railroad rate act has
always been an utter farce and every
body who knew anything about the
subject knew when 1t was passed that
it was a farce and would be failure
1t might have been meant TO be a
failure.
"At any rate, Mr. Hepburn, the gen.
tleman no was selected by the Roose-
Welt administration to stand sponsor
for that bill in the house. had but
lately been hung in effigy by his en-
thusiastic constituents for too great
friendliness to the railroads.
Would you have selected that kind
of a man tagged with that kind of a
testimonial, TO frame that kind of
bill? And can you imagine Mr.. Roose-
welt, the Diogenes OF politics, punting
through the house OF congress. Ian
tern i'll hand. to find an honest man
aid selecting this executed effigy as
the fittest one to frame the peoples
railroad bill?"
Mr. Hearst says Mr. Taft is trying
to stiffen into an active force the
"spineless railroad bill' OF the Roose-
welt administration. He gives Mr..
Taft credit for the prosecution of
criminal trusts and for throwing his
powerful influence behind many need
ed laws. among them the corporation
tax BILL the over-capitalization BILL
bill providing for postal savings
banks, the parcels post measure and
the income tax bill.
IF the Deople want more OF achieve
ment than Taft is giving them they
must turn to another party, for | do
not believe that there Is another man
In the Republican party who will do
more or as much.
Most certainly. II the people want
the tariff modified they must turn to
another party. for the tariff will never
be modified by it's beneficiaries. And
its beneficiaries control the Republi-
can party.