The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-06-22
MASTERLY RESUME OF PARTY
RECORD MADE BY CHAIRMAN
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efficient service is vigorously exacte
graft is reduced to a minimum, der
Lotions from official duty are STERN
punished and a high standard Of of
cial morality is maintained.
We challenge the judgment of tn
American people on the policies {
Mckinley and Roosevelt and Taft.
Taft's Promise Fulfilled.
President Taft in his speech OF a,
ceptance on the 2Sth of July, 1906
paid a just tribute to the great sci
Woe rendered by his predecessor 1
awakening the public conscience, II
augurating reforms and saving tn
country from the dangers OF a pluto
cratic government. He. instanced tn
railroad rate law, the prevention o
the railroad rate determinations, thu
enforcement OF the antitrust law, tn,
pure food law, the meat inspection
law. the general supervision and con
troll of transportation companies, the
conservation of natural resources, and
proceeded TO say:
ministration. in my judgment, Is dis
tinct from and progressive develop
ment from that which has been per.
formed by President Roosevelt. The
chief function OF the next administra'
ton is to complete and perfect the
machinery by which these standards
may be maintained. by which the law
breakers may be promptly restrained
and punished, but which shall operate
with sufficient accuracy and dispatch
TO interfere with legitimate business
as little as possible"
There spoke the voice of two Re
publican administrations and the
promise of that declaration has been
faithfully observed with painstaklDg
and assiduous care. The Republican
administration which is now drawing
to a close has engaged in completing
and perfecting the machinery in ap-
plying the standards and working out
the practical results of established Re.
publican policies, including also the
Mckinley policies of protective tar.
if and sound finance.
Stands For Protection.
The Republican party stands now,
as Mckinley stood, for protective
tarif, while the Democratic party
stands against the principle of protec-
ton and for tariff for revenue only.
We stand not for the abuses of the
tariff, but for the beneficient uses. No
tariff can be revised so moderate, 50
reasonable that It will not be rejected
by the Democratic party, provided its
duties be adjusted with reference TO
labor cost so as to protect American
products against being driven out OF
the market by foreign underselling
made possible through the lower rate
of wages in other countries.
The American foreign merchant ser.
vice has been driven from the face
Of the waters because, at the wages
Of the American sailors and the Amer
lean standard of living 1t could not
complete with foreign shipping.
have said that We do not stand
Tor the abuses of the tariff. The chief
cause OF abuse is that we have out
grown our old methods of tariff-mak'
ing. Our productive industries have
become too vast and complicated, our
commercial relations too extensive
for any committee of Congress Of IL
self to get at the facts to which the
principles of protection may be prop
erly applied.
The Republican party proposes 10
this defective method through
having the facts ascertained by an i'm
partial commission through thorough
scientific investigation, so that the
President and Congress shall have
the basis for the just application of
the principle of protection. The Re-
publican Congress included in the
Payne-Aldrich bill clause under
which the President has authority to
appoint such board to make such
Investigations and report the results
70 him.
Democrats Ignore Boards Reports.
The President appointed the board
Its members are drawn from both pc
ltical parties. Their competency, in
tegrity and fairness is unquestioned
They have reported upon the woolei
SCHEDULED; they have reported on tn
cotton schedule. The President ha
transmitted their findings TO Congress
The Democratic House of Represer
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