Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-05
TdnsREPUB1ICAN,l IOWA SEPTEMBER 1911

public questions. and my conviction
d candidate for president who will be
strongest in the election. ] have no
other then the most friendly feeling for
the president. With these preliminary
and explanatory suggestions l present
to the Record Herald my bill OF partl-
cularS. =
Taft's Position Outlined.
ut will be conceded. / suppose, that
President Taft's alignment must be de-
termined chiefly:
''First-By his position upon the
Payne Aldrich tariff law.
"Second-By his position upon the
bill for the further regulations Of in
terstate common carriers, brought for"
ward about the first of the year 1910.
Thirdly his position upon the
change made in the postal savings law,
just as it was being passed in the sem
ate.
"Fourth-By his position upon the
proposed income tax law which was
sought to be incorporated into the
Payne Aldrich tariff act.
"Fifth-By his attitude toward the
control and disposition of our public
domain.
"Sixth-By his position on the Ca
madam tariff bill passed at the extra
session, just closed
"Seventh-By his work for the peace
treaties.
"Eighth-By his vetoes of the wool
en- schedule. the free list. and the res
olution admitting New Mexico and Ari-
iona as states.
1T is manifest that the Record-Her-
aid could not give me the space to an
alyze each of these important meas
ures. and argue at length their merits
or dement's. 1 shall content myself, in
the main, therefore, with merely re
calling to the minds Of the people the
lineup on each Of them.
"First-The Payne-Aldrich tariff law
Mr.. Taft's associates in the making Of
this law, which he declared TO be the
best ever passed upon the subject, Were
Mr.. Aldrich and his followers in the
senate, Mr.. Payne. Mr.. Dalzell, Mr.
Cannon and their followers in the
house 1t seems to me am justified in
the conclusion that he did not take the
progressive view with respect to this
mea sure
Recent Laws Analysed.
Second. One of the most notable
laws passed during the present admin
istration is the act amending and en-
larging what is commonly known as
the interstate commerce law. Presi-
dent Taft made legislation upon the
subject the prominent feature Of the
frs, regular session after he was in
augurated. Thru his attorney general
he presented to congress a bill which
was introduced into the senate, re-
ferred TO the committee on interstate
commerce, and reported back to the
senate precisely as the attorney gen
eral wrote il, and as President Taft
apparently. believed it ought TO be en-
acted Ii this bill had passed as in.
sisted upon by the president, the work
Of nearly a quarter of a century would
have been swept away, and we would
have taken a long step backward in the
regulation Of our railways. The bill was
put thru the committee under the co.
ercion of Mr.. Aldrich. and with his
declaration that not letter or line
would be changed in il. 1t came to the
senate and was opened up for discus.
sion. Many parts of it We're SO bac
that they found no defenders, and such
effort as was made TO defend the ad.
ministration bill was led by Mr.. Aldrici
ard Mr.. EIk!ns. l, was reconstructed
| upon the floor of the senate by the pro
gressives against the violent opposition
Of the reactionaries, who we're acting
! for the president. l believe that peopl,
generally Will agree with me that with
the respect TO this measure Mr. Tai
! did not take the progressiyes' view O
| the subject.
Third. Before the present admins
| rration came in postal savings bill
| had been practically agreed upon l.
! the senate. and the fight which TIL
progress;ves had made was to insur'
! the deposit of the money put into tn
| postoffices in the banks of the loca
communities We had won out, Blu
| jus, as We were on the point Of pass
! ing the bill, Prssiden, Taft had sui
ticient influence TO rewrite that part 81