The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-13
WHAT ARE THE RESULTS?

WHAT ARE THE RESULTS?
WASHINGTON. Nov. 13.-Now that
President Taft is once more in Wash
ington after his $4,000 mile swing
through the West, his friends as we'll
as his foes are trying to sum up the
political results of this transcontinen-
tai trip. The views are at variance.
Mr. Taft's friends particularly those
who are in the party declare that he
made a deep impression wherever he
went to defend the acts of his admin
istration. His enemies, both in his
party and out of it say that he failed
to strengthen himself.
A few things have been made clear,
however, by this long trip. The most
important, perhaps, is the fact that the
administration is in earnest about it's
antitrust prosecution program. In
more than a dozen speeches the Presi-
dent declared that he meant to enforce
the Sherman law as interpreted by the
supreme court, come what may. And
to bear him out. the suit against the
United States Steel corporation was
filed before he returned to Washing
ton.
Advice Is Not Needed.
This program is being pursued, too,
1xyio Df Hf p
Taft's best friends. These friends
have warned him time and again
against the policy of enforcing this
law in the face of a presidential cleo
ton. But this advice. friendly though
it was, did not prevail, and the politi
cal advisers who follow the fortunes
of the administration do not know
whether to be sorry or not.
When the President started on his
trip he realized that many people oi
the West did not indorse his vetoes
of the tariff revision bills. He had
tried to justify these vetOes in his mes
sages to congress, but he knew thai
comparatively few people read pres
idential message. For that reason M
took the opportunity on his trip to de
! fend his action on the tariff bills.
Are People Convinced?
1t remains to be seen whether or no
the people are convinced that thei
best interests were served by the We
toes of the wool, cotton, and the fre'
list bills. Whenever he spoke of thes
measures, Mr.. Taft was given clos
attention, but he created no enthus
iasm over his view. The most hi
friends expect therefore. of the tariff
/ speeches is that they convinced tn
people of the Chief Executives SINGER
ity in vetoeing the bills.
One policy which the President pre-
pounded won favor everywhere. A
often as he spoke of his arbitration
treaties, he found generous rt
sponse. The people undoubtedly be
lieve in arbitration, and will not fol
give the senate, if that body permits
technical objection to defeat this in
portant step toward peace among NJ
tions.
1t is already certain that the admir-
istration will concentrate its energie
during the coming sessions of col
gress on the following subjects:
A revision of the most objectIonabl
schedules in the Payne-Aldrich Ia
iff act.
The enforcement of the Sherman al
thrust law without fear or favor.
Arbitration between the Unite
| States and Great Britain, France an
such other nations as may desire
I negotiate treaties.
| The whole list of the Presidents a.
| dresses point to this conclusion. Th1
| is the program which Mr.. Taft devote
his time while on his tour, and th
| policies upon which he made his a.
| peals.