New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-07
TAFT SAYS NATION
IS TURNING TO Him
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losing the home market. While our
foreign trade is growing more rap
idly than at any time In our history.
domestic commerce is making ad-
vances fully as remarkable. Our pop
ulation IL increasing, the demand for
the necessaries Of life is increasing
proportionately, and, thanks to active
business and good wages, the people
are able to pay for what they want.
and to keep our industries busy sup
plying their wants.
Hence. general and growing pros
perity, with a certainty of still better
times, provided the machinery OF our
national activities Is not disarranged
and brought to a standstill by undue
reduction of the tariff or anarchistic
assaults upon our institutions, and
upon the harmonious relations now
existing, as a rule, between employer
and employed.
Deals With Capital and Labor Alike.
There is no serious danger, | believe,
to our institutions from industrial agi-
tation. So long as such agitation
keeps within legal bounds IL is not
without wholesome significance, and
may tend to improve conditions. When
1t passes beyond the legal limit,
whether those self-outlawed are con-
nected with capital or with labor, 1t IS
a menace to be dealt with by lawful
authority notwithstanding occasional
outbreaks OF violence in labor disputes,
there is a growing tendency TO settle
differences by peaceful means, and
there is undoubtedly manifest much
more friendly and humane attitude
on the part of employers toward en-
ployed than was apparent not many
years ago.
The Golden Rule is getting to be
more and more a guide in business as
well as IN religion. Social and eco
nomic conditions are growing better,
not worse, and Republican policies fos-
tering and stimulating national pros
perity undoubtedly tend toward this
betterment.
"For the man or tho community enjoy
ing robust health, quaek remedies have
little attraction, no matter how vocif-
erousIy recommended as cure-aIIs for
the body polite.
The law of supply and demand.
along with labor organizst ton and arbi-
tration, and such legislation as may
properly be enacted governing hours
OF labor and rates Of compensation II
the public service. thereby giving an
example for private employers, are ad-
equate 10 deal with the wage question.
a general minimum wage should have
A tendency 10 bring down the maxi
mum to the minimum. Labor organiza-
tions are we'll aware OF this result.
where an arrangement TO that effect
has been entered into with employers.
However, as l have said. the American
people are in no need Of quack nos
trums and are too busy to listen to
their vendors.
Good Wages the Party's Aim.
THE higher cost Of living. as have
said before, IL worldwide The aim of
the Republican party is to see that
American workers arc enabled 10 meet
the cost Of living by keeping employed
at good wages. II is a simple purpose,
and as direct and practical as it is
simple, and does not need volume OF
rhetoric 10 explain il or get around Il.
While the cost Of living. so far as most
Of the necessaries OF life are concerned,
Is not so high here as in Europe, the
wage Garner here Is getting from more
than double TO six and seven times the
wages paid in Europe, and is In that
proportion better able to meet any in
crease in the cost Of living
II ain pleased to note that ex-Gov-
ernor Douglas Of Massachusetts. an
earnest and most estimable member of
the. Democratic party. refused to be
carried away In the current of idle rea-
sons for the high cost Of living He
attributes IL chiefly to the increased
annual product Of gold to 100000, 600
from about one-fourth that amount
twenty years ago, and he expects that,
as long as the present output of gold
continues, with no change in the
weight of gold coins. prices will have u
tendency TO mount higher.
obviously the Democratic party
and Governor Wilson, with such condi-
tons facing US, could not select a
worse time for proposing to the Ameri-
can worker-as in effect they do pro-
pose by urging a reduction in the tariff
to consent to lower wages, with a
view to more open competition with
labor abroad.
wages must be kept up, and the
way to keep them up is to keep tho
tariff protective, and not for revenue
only
Il propose in dealing with the trust
question TO keep the great combina-
tions OF capital within exactly the same
control as the city or cross roads gro
Gerry pays federal license for selling
cigars. ! mean that both shall obey
the law. That's all. Simple, is 1t not?
The Sherman law has been and will
continue to be enforced against all
violators, however rich and powerful
they may be. ! have recommended ma