The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-11-01

CTS POLICIES
His Trust Altitude Firm, Con;
sistent and Effective.
SCORES POunCALN 0sIRUlls


Recall Of Judges = Menace to indie
pendenee Of Judieiary-DeelareS
That Attacks on the Integrity Of
His Nomination Are BasoIeOs and
Vicious sss=s
4 President Taft discusses the Issues
/ Of the present campaign in the Sat
/ urday Evening Post" He takes his
stand sqUarely on the issue that with
] him rested the responsibility OF main
4 tanning the high standard set up in the
/ records Of his party and Of carrying
/ out those policies of his predecessors
/ which he declares have made good
government and Republicanism syn
onymous.
The greater part of his argument
I which is the first of three to be writ
| ten by the chief candidates for the
presidency. is devoted TO a review OF
| tariff legislation during his admins
| tration and to the reasons for Oppos-
| ing the bills set before him for re-
duction OF schedules before they had
been Investigated by the tariff board.
He saws he signed the Payne tariH
bill because. above all, it provided the
machinery by which alone, in his opin-
ion, just and intelligent revision Of
the tariH could be effected; because il
+ gave the executive power through
maximum and minimum rates to get
proper treatment for American prod
ucts from foreign nations; because it
imposed tax on corporations and
paved the way for government insight
.I,o;- hocanCo ~ YOrr-
vided a means OF collecting revenue
quickly in case of emergency; because
It granted a larger measure of justice
to the Filipinos, and finally because it
cid provide for a material reduction
in tariff rates. not so much of re-
duction as he would have liked to get,
but as much as he believed it was pos
sibIe TO obtain without the machinery
Of the tariH board which the law ere
Rted He disapproved of the tariff
bills since passed because he saw in
them menace to the American work
man.
Coming to these measures Of his adj
ministration which have been passed
in the interests of social justice, the
president sets down first the railway
rate bill. which he describes as the
bodied in the Hepburn act. 1t gave
authority to the interstate commerce
commission in many details that had
been lacking and added powers of
supervision ever express companies.
telegraph, telephone and cable lines.
It authorized the institution of investi-
cations of rates before formal COM
plant had been made, the protection
Of water lines from unfair competi-
ton. and enacted a long and short
maui clause that has proved valuable
20 many communities.
President Taft asserts that his trust
policy has been firm, consistent and
effective in spite of the enmity OF
hose business interests which he
knew it would arouse. He points out
that forty-four cases against trusts
were instituted during the seven and
one-haf years that Mr.. Roosevelt was
President. while during the less than
four years of his Lwn administration
twenty-five civil suits and forty-fve
criminal indictments have been
brought.
To what he styles the nostrums of
the recall of judges and of judicial
opinions the President is firmly OPP
posed. holding them a menace to the
independence OF the judiciary.
"As we listen to the demagogic or
fatuous reformers," he says, 'Iet US
not forget that votes are not bread,
constitutional amendments are not
work. reserendums do not pay rent or
furnish homes, recalls do not provide
clothing, initiatives do not supply en-
ployment or relieve inequality of con-
dition or opportunity. For any def
mite plans from those who advocate
innovations which viii promote equal
ity of opportunity and ameliorate
hardships we listen in vain"
AS to the Chicago convention, the
President declares that no considera-
ton of party veal or personal ambi-
ton would tempt him to stand as
presidential candidate did he not
know that the attacks upon the integ-
rity of his nomination are as baseless
as they are vicious.