The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-31
J. ADAM BEDE POINTS OUT
THE GREAT WORK DONE
BY PRESIDENT TAFT
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solution suit. Anyone who believes
In clean politics can be absolutely
sure to get what he wants by voting
for Taft.
Everywhere from Boston to San
Francisco. the trend of thought is to-
ward the president. Labor is unIver-
sally employed. money is plentiful. ev-
cry legitimate enterprise is prosper
ing. every man has q meal ticket, and
every baby has a milk bottle, the
cricket is on the hearth. and there is
JOY in the land. Why make a change?
Taft stands for the principle of
protection, with intelligent tariff re-
vision, schedule by schedule, through
Il tariff board. without stopping a mill
or throwing a man out of work. The
democratic congress voted to abolish
the tariff board. and committed IT.
self to violent revision. while the dem.
ocratic platform declares protection
to be unconstitutional.
Free trade would permit, and in
some cases would compel, our vast
accumulations of manufacturing zap
ital to go abroad. employ foreign la
Dor. and sell the products in the
American markets. This is a demo-
cratic failacy as opposed to the re-
publican policy that has made us
strong and great.
when the worlt began d%iscarding
serfdom and slavery a century ago,
1t greatly quickened inventive genius.
and the conditions of life have been
wholly transformed. Every stop has
made its problem. and it is for us to
say whether We shall meet our prob
lems-incidents of u Progression
repeal this modern civilization and
return to the simple but half savage
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"And President Taft has been doing
all the federal government can legal
~ do to meet these new conditions
and bring happiness to the people.
His arbitration treaties alone will
make his name and administration
forever famous. The telegraph and
steamship have made the world one
country. so that every war is now a
civil war, and must be stopped.
HE brought us out of the panic in
to h gladness of prosperity. he gave
us the postal savings bank. the par
cells post, the mining bureau. the
bility act. the corrupt practices act.
the industrial commission. the one per
cent gross earnings tax on corpora
lions. the maximum tariff schedules,
the tariff board. the income tax
amendment, a self supporting postal
department.. the customs court, the
commerce court. has preserved peace
under trying circumstances and sIs-
tanned the dignity of our government
at all times at home and abroad.
This is but an abridged and feeble
statement of the facts. For three
years and a half the president has
been bitterly maligned. but the truth
is finding it's way to the light, hut
soon will set the country free from
the muckraker. the demagogue. the
boodler. the man seeking a special
privilege. the fumings of the faith
less friend. and the sacred chorus of
the ~pie-eaters' union.
"A year and a half ago when Mr..
Taft had served two years and had
two more to serve, the tariff bill be-
ing then bitterly criticised. he was
urged to do certain things to popular
lie his administration and assure his
reelection. The suggestions did not
appeal to him. and striking the table
with his fist he exclaimed: I would
rather be president for two years than
a trimmer for SIX
such is the man in the white
house, and such Is the sort Of man
that ought always to be there"