The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-01
TAFT SOUNDS KEYNOTE

At the Mckinley day banquet, given
by the Tippecanoe club at the Cleve-
land chamber of commerce, Tuesday
Keynote Of the coming presidential
campaign.
Looking over the record of what
has been done,' said the president,
sit seems to me that we are armed
with facts and with things accomplish
ed sufficient to meet our enemy in the
open field and to overcome him in the
judgment of an impartial umpire. 1t
seems to me there is no occasion for
the Republicans to fear the issue with
their knowledge of the progress that
has been made in the past four years,
with their adoption of progressive
principles indicated in their platform
of 1908, and in the proposals of the
administration since that time. They
must, if they would serve the country
well, discriminate between what is
really progressive and useful and what
is utterly at variance with sound,
constitutional governmental and Geo.
monte policy.
"On this, the natal day of William
Mckinley, let us take new vows in
behalf of the grand old party, stand
ing by the constitution, standing by
the rights of liberty and prosperity of
the individual and willing to face de-
feat many times in behalf of the
cause of sound constitutional govern
ment.
"Our Democratic friends are mis-
taken," said the president. "The cleo
tion of 1910 was not a declaration in
favor of a tariff for revenue or free
trade. This is shown by the fact that
the Democratic vote was less rather
than greater than it had been in the
presidential election. The defeat Of
the Republican party came not from
an increase in Democratic votes, but
from a detection of Republican votes,
i. e., of its own members, who stayed
at home and refused to stand by the
party in what they regarded as a fail
ure to redeem its pledges"
Aside from the benefits which the
president said were to be found in the
creation of a tariff board by the
Payne law there were many others
that grew out of that law to which
the Republican party could claim
credit. Among these he named the
court of customs appeals with auth
orization to eonstrue the tariff acts ;the
maximum and minimum clause of the
law which enables this country to pre-
vent discrimination against American
trade, and the corporation tax, which
is bringing many millions of revenue
to the government.
The interstate commerce act, said
Mr.. Taft, has been strengthened since
he has been in the White house so that
life and effect have been given to
orders of the interstate commerce CON-
mission, with the result that railroads
cannot minimize or ignore them.
A commerce court, he said, was
created to relieve the courts in rail
road cases. 81 observe now,' he said,
"that some of the decisions of the
commerce court have been made a
basis for q demand for its abolition.
1t seems to me this would be the most
foolish step possible
The supreme court, he pointed out,
win soon render decisions, showing the
exact jurisdiction of the commerce
court.
Mr.. Taft said that congress in
1901 enacted q safety appliance
law and an employers liability law
that had stood the test in the supreme
couxtS cIcateu the poStai savings
bank and has taken a forward step
toward conservation.
The national monetary commission
has reported a plan to improve the
currency system, a plan which the
president said would keep the control
Of the nations finances from the in
fluenee Of Wall street and Washing !
ton. An investigation of the proposal
for q parcels post has been made and
the postal commission soon will send
to congress its findings as to the need
of any increase in second-elass post
age
So far a. foreign policy is concern
ed, Mr.. Taft said, q most satisfactory
treaty with Japan, that settles = vex-
atious and unpleasant question, has
been negotiated and ratified; and
treaties with Nicaragua and Honduras
that would put those countries ION
their feet" and arbitration treaties
with Great Britain and France are be-
fore the senate.