Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-12-01
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] NNOHtluueu 1IOm page H.
Of the Treasury is due In no small
measure to the existing tariff, which
Notwithstanding all its faults, is rev
enue producer: There is a good dea
more that can be said for that act
1t gave us q maximum and minimum
tariff poviso which l deem of the high
est Importance, and which tended tx
increase our foreign trade substan
TALLY It gave US free trade with the
Philippines, which mas made the Do
lands more prosperous than ever in
their history, without injury to any
American industry. It gave authority
! that l used to create and appoint a
Tariff Board, which, though not the
commission sought, is doing a most
useful work; and it imposed a cor
poration tax, On which had set my
heart, but which at times despaired
of getting through"
Nov tlnat you have launched your
project for a Constitutional amend.
ment, YOU probably have in mind some
particular form of general income tax
to recommend to Congress when it is
free to act?'
I'm way, yes. believe, on prin.
cip.e, in u general income tax. The
only good arguments against it are
that it is inquisitorial, and that it of.
fers temptation to perjury. But
W1ould not resort to the ordinary in
come tax except in an emergency like
war. when would have it graduated,
so that those citizens who had most
at stake should bear corresponding
ly large share of the burden of the
common defense. In time of peace
would avoid temptation to perjury
and would confine the Government to
taxes that do not involve such inquis-
itorial methods in their collection
mr.. President, I suppose you have
noticed Mr.. Bryan's comments on
your appointment of Chief Justice
Write
CAL that have to say about my
judicial appointments is that I have
regarded my duty in respect to them
as tile most sacred with which am
charged, and that I have pared no
effort to secure for the Supreme Court
and other courts the best men
could get, with the fullest apprecia-
ton of the fact hat the Federal
courts, and especially the Supreme
Court constitute the chief bulwark of
the institutions of civil liberty created
by the Constitution"
Nov, Mr.. President, something of
the future. What do you purpose
treating as your calendar of unfin-
ichn1 hILC IN $h@ -
tern?"
I'm the domestic field, suppose re-
auctions in the wooden and cotton
and possibly in the metal
schedule of the tariff, will go to the
top Of the calendar. These will be
founded, as far as my recommends
tons are concerned, on the. report of
the Tariff Board. l have heard it in
situated that Congress will not heed
the suggestions Of an executive board.
As to THAT have no means of judging
in advance. What shall do is to put
the whole thing up to Congress. and
leave the members to settle with their
constituents IL they prefer not to act.
In the House the Democratic majority
have always professed themselves
ready to accept any reductions they
can get and ann going to take them
at their word in good faith. Where
The Insurgents will stand l am not
prophet enough even to surmise.
For another thing, We ought to OBJ !!
ain some Legislation which will en-
able Alaska to develop without in
ringing on our board policy of conser-
7ation. Then there is the question of !;
'atifying the peace treaties with Eng !
and and France, and the fiscal |
reaties with England and France, and
he fiscal treaties with Honduras and ;
which in their way are
peace treaties also, as their purpose
S to remove one of the most prolific ;
sluses of war;"
II assume that you know that it has
'een widely limited that your tour was
he opening of your campaign for re. !
>lection?''
Certainly. as is the case with all
administrations, much of what l have
lone since I have been in office has
lad some political color put upon it
~ those who were inclined to be crit
SoA' AAO VI NIAA 10, uO"SEcA, IudI ~.
itical considerations have not
weighed heavily with me. l have tried
o do in each case what seemed to me
he wisest thing, regardless of it's eff.
ect upon my own future. Indeed, in
more than one instance have been
perfectly conscious whose bad blood
would be stirred by some act of mine
)r some refusal to act. The circ,lm.
stance that the same persons who hail
ne, after one application of equal JUS.
ice, as far-seeing conservative pa ;
riot, denounce me after the next as
IN unreasoning radical, does not
greatly disturb my equanimity. I set
hat down as all in a days work.
II am very grateful for the honors
he people have given me. 1 do not
affect to deny the satisfaction should !
EEL if, after casting up the totals pro :
md con, and striking balance, they
should decide that my first term had