New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-08
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT.

s..Nhat have President Taft and our own
politicians been doing?' asked Busy Man.
President Taft told the public lands
convention at Denver that he stood UNI
eauivocally for the leasing Of coal and
phosphate lands, and would approve legis-
lation providing for an appeal 10 the courts
from decisions of the Secretary OF the IN
terror and the Land Office, and inumated
that with regard TO water power sites he
might be willing to consider favorably
legislation which intrusted them TO the
state, with a provision that IL they were
permitted TO pass into the hands of those
who sought 10 monopolize them they
should revert to the federal government
AT Pocatello, Idaho. President Taft
made what may be taken as his final an
fwer TO the criticisms directed by certain
business interests against his declaration
that the Attorney General must pursue
without discretion prosecutions against
combinations existing I'm violation OF the
Sherman law. Under his oath OF Office, he
declared. he had himself no discretion In
the prosecution Of such combines and could
not withhold prosecution just 10 help bust
ness. He said that he recognized the harm
40 business that such prosecutions would
bring but declared that prosecutions must
go on and that business must reform itself
and come out Of the tolls of reform from
the evil Of unlawful combination to nut
IRE tranquility and prosperity.
MIR Taft also declared that he would
onnrove no tariff bin until nc had received
from the Tariff Board the information nee
essarv 10 enable him 10 determine whether
the proposed rates Of duty are equitable
alike 10 the consumers and to the protected
industries.
Theodore Roosevelt i'm published arti-
Gle on How the United States Acquired
tho Right TO Dig the Canal discussed
statements which have been made from
time TO time that ne acted in an uncOn-
sututional manner and usurped authority
in connection with the Panama project,
and upheld the regularity OF the proceed
ings throughout. Mr. Roosevelt said that
his messages to Congress set forth in full
every essential fact connected with the
various phases of the acquisition OF the
Panama Canal, and added: Not one i'm
portant fact was omitted, and no fact of
any importance bearing upon the actions
or negotiations of the representatives OF
The United states not there set forth has
been, or ever will be. discovered, simply
because there is none 10 discover II must
be a matter Of pride TO every honest Amer
lean, proud of the good name Of his coun-
try, that the acquisition Of the canal and
the building OF the canal, in all their de-
tails were as free from scandal as the
public acts of George Washington and
Abraham Lincoln
ION the witness stand before the Senate
investigating committee in Milwaukee, TO
answer charges that bribery and corrupt
use Of money had contributed TO his cleo
ton. United States Senator Isaac Stephen
son testified that. although he spent s107, 1893
in his campaign. lie had little knowledge
as 10 just how il was spent, except that it
was not used in violation Of the law. The
details, he said, he had left to his cam
paign managers.
George II. Earle, jr., the Penrose- Nc