East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-10
IMPRESSION MADE
BY TAFT IS POOR
REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER
MEN ADMIT II
Congressional Investigation Not in
Attack on Legitimate business En-
tcrprjscS-Prcs.dent' Tariff Board
il Ono Nomcntous Joke.
lRv Q. II. TacennerD }

(By c. H. TacennerO
Washington, Oct. 1O.-The presi-
den, has been in the west The peo-
pie have listened to his defense. And
they sun believe he did wrong in We
toing the honest efforts of both
branches of congress to reduce the
awful cost of living in the United
States.
such is the tenor of the news that
has come over the wires from the spe-
cial correspondents VINO either ac-
companied or trailed Mr.. Taft on his
$4,000 mile swing.
Arthur Henning. Washington cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune
interviewed hundreds of westerners
and found that the people generally
liked Mr.. Taft's personality but ab-
solutely disapproved his record as
president.
Angus McSween, the celebrated
Washington. correspondent of the
Philadelphia North American (also
republican,, wired from Topeka, Kan
sas. as follows:
president Taft did not make a
dent in the surface of strong progress
| sive sentiment in the state of Kansas
| during his visit here"
1t developed, too, that a great many
men, in all walks of life, candidly ad-
mitted that next year they proposed
to vote for a democrat for president,
| Notwithstanding they always before
| had voted for a republican. a great
MANY of these refer ed to the mag
nificent record the democrats made in
/ congress last session and frankly ad-
! m'tted that since the democrats had
shown real ability to govern ana
govern well. it was no more than their
due than they should be given great
er responsibility.
All Legitimate Business safe.
Chairman A. O. Stanley of the stee
trust investigating committee, says
the republicans are endeavoring tc
create the impres ion that the dem
democratic investigation of steel trus
IS in the nature of an attack on the
steel business. He denied that this Is
true
Republican newspapers" said Mr.
Stanley. "are trying to make th'
country believe they are persecutin!
the steel corporation. Nothing coulC
be further from the truth. The in
vestigation has been conducted witt
the utmost fairness and not singh
one of the steel men who testified
failed to thank the committee for tn
fair and generous way in which h
/ had been treated.
"The democrats realize the neces
, sity sfor constructive action. The
want the country to feel that no legit
innate business is going to suffer a
their hands, and that no bushes
which is not legitimate is going t
prosper if they can help it.
THE democratic party is not ben
upon ruthless policy of destructio
and no legitimate business need fea
that it will be treated unfairly"
Tariff Board Is a Peach.
. Is it fair to judge President Taft
tariff board by what the chairman c
the board himself thinks of it? If 81
it is a sort of a joke.
Chairman Emery of the tariff boar
in speaking at a banquet of the Ma
tional American Association of Woo
en- and Worsted Manufacturers at Me-
York City, said:
2 There are certain things that al
very difficult to get and one thin
r that according to the platform of tn
= republican party and incidental
that does not mean anything to M
except thar | have been given the 10
according TO that Platforms to tr
to get the cost of production.
/ thank you all. gentlemen, that yo
= did not laugh. Laughter.)
9 frankly say right here that this ide
, of settling things on cost alone is a
nonsense You must not think | al
4 joking about this thing. but there
: joke about it, and the joke is thi'
8 have no powers whatsoever. TT
tariff board has no powers. There
really no such a thing as tari
board. The law says that for certai
purposes the president may emplc
such persons as he sees fit / am or
Of such persons. That is ALL" Laugh
ter and applause.)
And it was because of this boar
; even the chairman of which treats
as a joke, that President Taft vetoe
= the efforts of both branches Of col
- gress to reduce the cost of living.
Protection Boosts Prices.
=, The United States is not the on
n nation suffering from excessive prt
J, lection. The rigid protection polio
Of German, though not nearly
drastic as that of the United State
has so increased the cost of living
to compel the most severe economi'
on the part Of the wage earners. TT
families Of the masses cannot affol
- the luxury of meat Horses and eve
dogs, are killed in large numbers fl
consumption as food
.. Wages are not increasing in Ge
% many, nor are labor conditions beir
improved In the last five years ST
tistical returns show that makiI
~ due allowance for increase in pop
" lation, that employment of females
1,