The Washington times., 1912-10-14
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the period. It holds sacredly to the antiquated
States rights ideas, and opposes whatever looks
to national bigness and national power.
1t is charged by Mr.. Roosevelt's enemies that
ne did nothing, when he was President to remodel
the tariff and eliminate its abuses. This is true,
and the reason for it is that Mr.. Roosevelt was
doing bigger things at that time.
We were in period of great national pros
perity under the tariff as it then existed. If Mr..
Roosevelt had found the country in the soup-house
condition in which Mckinley found it on taking
over the reins of government after four years Of
Democratic rule he would have jumped in on tariff
legislation, and there would have been something
doing. But since this was not the urgent call Of
the hour, he grappled the things that were crying
to heaven for reform. He awakened the nation to
sense of civic righteousness, and forced through
an unwilling Congress reforms of the most i'm.
portant and most far-reaching character.
HERE IS THE EVIDENCE WHICH
SHOWS WHY ROOSEVELT HADN'T THE
TIME FOR REFORMING THE TARIFF:
Roosevelt's Achievements
1. Dolliver-Hepburn Railroad Act enabling the In
terstate Commerce Commission to control rail-
2. Extension of Forest Reserve.
3. National Irrigation Act.
4. Improvement of waterways and reservation of
waterPower sites.
S. Employer Liability Act
6. Safety Appliance Act.
z Regulation of railroad employee hours of labor.
g. Establishment of Department of Commerce and
Labor.
g. Pure Food and Drugs Act.
10. Federal meat inspection.
H. Navy doubled in tonnage and greatly increased in
efficiency.
H. Battleship feet sent around the world.
Is State militia brought into coordination with army.
H. Canal Zone acquired and actual work of construct
ing Panama Canal begun.
Is. Development of civil sef-government in insular
possessions.
II. Finances of Santo Domingo sraishtened out.
18. Alaska boundary dispute settled
19. Reorganization of the consular service.
20. Settlement of the coal strike of 1902.
FL The Government upheld in Northern Securities de-
cision
22. Conviction of post Office srafters and public land
thieves
23 Directed investigation of the Sugar customs
frauds and the resultant prosecutions.
a. Suits begun against the Standard Oil and Tobacco
companies and other corporations for violation
of the Sherman Anti Trust Act.
Is Corporations forbidden to contribute to political
campaign funds.
26 Keeping the door of China open to American COM
merce.
ese war by the Treaty of Portsmouth.
e. Avoiding the threatened hostility created by Pacific
coast prejudice against Japanese immigration.
20. Negotiating twenty-four treaties of general arbi-
tration.
80. Reduction of the interestbearins debt by
than SOC, 900, 900.
81 Inauguration of movement for conservation of nat
ural resources.
32 Inauguration of the annual conference of Govern
of States.
80. Inauguration Of movement for Improvement of
conditions of country life.
Policies Urged by Roosevelt
1. Reform of the banking and currency system.
2. Inheritance tax.
3. Income tax.
4. Passage of employer liability act.
S. Postal savings banks.
6. Parcels post.
T. Revision of the Sherman antitrust act.
8. Legisation to prevent overcapalzaton, stockwa-
tering, etc.
g. Legislation compelling incorporation under Federal
laws.
This is matchless exhibit. Apart from war