The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-19
TAFT IS PLEADING
WITH REPUBLICANS
President Hopes That States
men Will Lay Aside Personal
Differences and Show Sense.
WANTS PARTY PLEDGES
TO BE CARRIED OUT
Makes No Direct Reference to
the Battle Which Is Now
Raging in Congress.

ROCHESTER, y. Y, March lS.-Presi
dent Taft tonight. in speech before tn,
Chamber OF Commerce, appealed TO mem
bers OF congress TO sacrifice their indi
vidual opinions that the platform prom
ises Of the Republican party might b,
fulfilled and hoped the party would
show That II has "the sense and the dis
cipline TO meet It's responsibilities"
The impression had got abroad that the
president might have something TO say
tonight on sthe acute situation In the
house OF representatives at Washington
but this was his nearest reference TO the
was devoted entirely to the legislation he
had recommended in the last few months
the presiden, further declared:
if this congress is to be treated as
Republican congress these things ought
TO pass in fulfillment of party pledges
| After this is sione. II does not matter
what happens at the next election. We
! will have done something for which the
country will be grateful. whether 1t thinks
it ought to express this gratitude in the
| immediate future or not
Has Audience With Him.
! Mr., Taft constantly was interrupted by
| applause. and when, toward the end OF
! his remarks. he declared with great en-
phasis he had tried president TO do
| what he believed was right. rather than
| those things that would bring political
| strength the audience of nearly d thou
sand business men stood UP and cheered
with great carnestneSS throughout He
declared ne had been told he was no
politician and dire things had been pre-
dicted. He believed, however in the end
the people would find the measures rec
commended TO congress were right and
| that right after all was the very best
of politics.
Mr Tafts greeting tonight was the
most dcmonsJrative he has received. in
his recent travels. He was followed as a
speaker at the banquet by President W.
road. who paid glowing tribute to Mr.,
Taft and told of the progress and stabil
ity that had come to the business world
since his Inauguration
President Taft summed up the things
he declared had caused some of his ad
visers TO characterize him as a bad poll
tician.
Forces the Issues.
First. he said, there was the tariff law.
and a new tariff bill always defeats a
party.
Second had come the corporation tax.
bringing with 1t the cnmiiy of everybody
directly indirectly interested In the
more than 400, 600 corporations affected.
Third, there was the alleged postal
deficit which had been charged TO the
carrying OF magazines and periodicals AZ
cent pound. That was bad politics;
because 1t arraycd all the magazines and
periodicals against he administration"
Fourth, congress only reduced the duty
on print paper 80 per cent instead OF
putting II on the free list Ihls oilenoed
the newspapers.
And. last OF all. the postal savings bank
bill had turned all the bankers against
the administration.
see lust where we are coming out. But
| am confident In the end the measures
Will approve themselves. The troubles
we most fear are those that never come
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adopted, not because they will give us
political strength. but because they are
right And If they are right the people
Will find them TO be right and that is the
best politics in the end
What Congress Should Do.
The president referred to the measures
he hoped congress would adopt at this
session in the following order:
'.Tbe bill amending the interstate com
.'The bin for postal savings banks.
"Thc anti-in junction bill.
1.-The statehood bill.
! .'The conservation bills.
After he had explained briefly the pro-
visions Of these measures, the president
| continued.
one great difficulty about being presi-
| dent and | assure you there are great
many of them. is. he is the titular head OF
| the party and is made responsible Tor the
| laws adopted by the party. although he
| has had nothing more TO do with them
| Il
and the power Of veto at the end. He Is
held responsible for the promises made
| by the party
! fuldlI the party pledges-and to help the
| country. as he thlnks-he goes about and
| cousuts all the interests, so as to recon-
mend a fair law, and makes suggestions
| TO congress and some congressman diner
| with him. ne IS held up as tyrant Try
| ing TO force his views down the throats
OF unwilling congressman ana nnwhhhs
| senator's
Between Two Fires.
! "And so he is in Il bad fix, On the
| one hand 1t is said OF him hc is not doing
what he ought 10 do. and on the otner
| hand nc is trying TO frightcn An unwlll-
| iug congress TO do what 1t does not want
| TO do. But this is II government OF party
| II II were not a government OF party we
| might as well go out OF the government
| business for we will never get ahead
without parties. How arc you going TO
Give expression TO the varying views oi
ninety millions of people and put theni
| into the form OF legislation. To be agreed
upou by a majority OF your representa-
| tlyos and senator's unless you organize
partics 10 select those representatives. ana
senators and agree within the party 10
| subordinate your less material predileC-
| lions and opinions in favor OF certain
! Fundamental principles of improvement
In order 10 advance which you are Wiling
| 10 sacrifice all less important matters?
Therefore, YOU have TO have what rs
| known on the football field as team work
| And the party has 10 get toGcther-the
aims on one side and the extremes or
thc other-and both must sacrifice some.
1 thing OF their Individual views and get
the thing through, and that is what
am hopeful our congress will do.
THAT they may differ on details OF tho
various bills Is TO be expected. But n
thcy arc really IN favor-al of thcm-oi
enacting useful legislation, then they
must be willing TO sacrifice some OF theil
Views that there shall be n compromise
measure Of real Improvement and rea
step forward TO show the people the party
which has assumed respon sblllty has the
sense and discipline 10 meet il by suoord!-
nation OF smaller views.
History Of Political Year.
"It is moi more than a year since thc
present administration began, We hac
promised 10 revise the tarin and we diC
So The onNration Of that law during Tho