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tons are particularly fortunate. He
makes it perfectly clear that the laws
are 20 be enforced, as they should DE. but
honest business has no cause for appre-
.hension on account Of anything Mr. art
said
The regular Republican organization
men Of the House see in the Presidents
speech O valuable campaign document
for use I'm the fight next faH They are
much pleased at the manner lu which
Nr TAFT stood by his guns. as one
or them expressed u. and think the
speech viii do a great deal toward setting
the administration straight before the
country.
Representative Tawney. Of Minnesota,
chairman Of the House Committee on
Appropriations. in whose town President
Taft last summer delivered the tariff
speech that raised ruct.ons In the Middle
West Is emphaticsliy pleased
People should Read Il.
That speech said DE-. undoubtedly
viii be printed tn the Congressional
Record. as was his WIuona address. 1t
IS entirely proper and fitting that this
should be- done. for the document is in
formative and valuable and something
the people OF the country should have a
chance 20 read and digest
Il am glad 90 see shat the President
discussed the administrations attitude
with respect TO antitrust legislation with
such candor
There IS really no excuse for any mis-
Interpretation of the Presidents views on
this question. or OF any possible misap-
prehensIon concerning the policy 20 be
followed by this administration in carry
ing out platform promises or the own
personal opinions Of the President and
his advisers.
United Front NEEDED in House.
1T is 10 De hoped. too. in the interests
Of harmony in the House that the Presi-
dents comments or so-caIIed regularity
and insurgency Will he read carefully. Il
is absolutely essential I'm order that the
gress must clear up that the Republicans
IN the House present united front. I
think that there is not a single loyal
Republican who on reflection viii not in
dorse heartily the letter and spirit OF the
Presidents speech, and who viii not
characterize it as a worthy and useful
document"
Other members Of the regular orEani-
cation were equally emphatic In their in
dorsemeut Of the Presidents speech. and
soon, probably to-day. arrangements viii
be made to have it printed in the Record
for use around the country.
Alarms No Criminals.
THE Presidents declaration of intent
TO enforce the law. but not 20 run amuck.
seems q prospect of justice tempered
with mercy The best thing that could
happen TO the country would be an honest
and courageous prosecution of all law
breakers. 1t would be decidedly interest
ing and Illuminating 20 know what per
cent Of those applaudiug banqueters last
night were Iaw-breakers. and how much
they contributed to the last Republican
campaign fund. That speech will alarm
no criminal
Representative Champ Clark. Of Mis-
souri,. Democratic House leader, gave ex-
preston to the above last night in dis
cussjng the Presidents Lincoln Day
speech
The President" said Mr.. Clark. EN-
deavored 10 Offset Republican differences
with certain remarks about Democratic |
querrels That is the latest illustration
of the force of habit. The President
must certainly read only expurgated cdi-
tons OF the daily papers. otherwise he /
would know that the Democrats in the
House of Representatives and throughout
the country are more thoroughly united
than they have been since 1892. and that
the Republicans are worse split up than
al any time since the Republican party
was organized. Factionalism among the
Republicans cannot be whistled down the
wind or laughed out of court. even by
Republican President
THAT portion of the Presidents speech
pertaining to the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
tariff act is almost Identical with the
tariff portion of his Winono speech" con-
tinued Mr.. Clark. THAT speech failed,
as this speech viii, to convince the
country that that monstrous measure is /
an Improvement on the Dngley act or
that il is a revision downward.
The fact remains" Mr.. Clark con-
cluded, after all speeches, Presidential
or otherwise, that more people are suffer-
ing from cold and hunger this winter IN
der the -Aldrich- Smoot measure
than there were under the Dnglsy bill,
which was so had that in order to win
in 1903 the Republicans had to promise TO |
revise it down, and then repudiated their