The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-09
BUSINESS SUPPORTS TAFT.

=
ing of the conference of leading Re
publicans and business men at Beverly
on Saturday was strong on tho prop
osition that the conservative business
men of the United States are supporting
Taft III the present campaign. The
clamor and outcrv which Roosevelt is
Iraising all through the country natural
" alarms legitimate business, and is
favored only by the monopoistic trusts
which arc putting up such immense
sums OF money for his campaign. The
mass OF The conservative, straightfor-
ward business Of the country is opposed
TO this clamorous sort of politics. and
distrustful altogether of tho Roosevelt
programme Men of sound business
sense see that Roosevelt is promising
things that neither he nor any other
man can possibly bring about. II is one
thing TO 90 about the country shouting
that everything that is wrong ought to
he righted. that there ought 10 be no
poverty, no distress, nobody sick, no.
body manned or hurt by any form of
accident. and that death onght to be
abolished To be sure, this is not lit.
orally what Roosevelt is shouting all
over the United States, but he is shout
ing things Just as impossible to bring
about as the remedy for these evils. AS
former Senator Edmunds of Vermont
very pithily says. it is one thing to
point out evils and quite another TO
provide effective remedies for them,
and Roosevelt points out no remedies.
His sole argument is that without him
as President everything goes wrong;
and the one thing needed as remedy
is to elect him. But he did nothing
before TO cure the evils, and would do
nothing now.
The infirmities Of human nature arc
not curable by a political campaign,
and the man who goes about the conn
try shouting that he is the panacea for
every evil is simply a dishonest dem.
agoguo who is deceiving the people,
whether deceit is his intent or NOT.
The Roosevelt proposition that tho
trusts can be divided into good trusts
hh' bdN tAuSNo' lnt Sppu ITuSIS lnDSf
that support him and his policies, and
The bad ones those that oppose him,
rs, of course, purely selfish personal
division that can serve for no one but
himself
His declaration that the Sherman
antitrust law was never meant 10 be
enforced is declaration In the nature
of perjury i'm one who aspires to take
the oath Of office OF President of the
United States. and Eho, in fact, al
ready has taken that oath twice A
man who viii take oath that he will
faithfully enforce the laws, and then
come ont flatly and say that some
laws or some sci of laws are not meant
10 be enforced, is dangerous man to
trust with executive power
President Taft has conducted himself
in the office Of President of the United
States with the utmost dignity, dc.
corum. and awabiding efficiency. It is
fairly and truly said that until Presi-
dent Taft became President there was
never an honest, effective step taken
10 enforce the antitrust law. 1t is true,
further, that the Withdrawals OF public
lands made by Roosevelt as President,
prior to President Taft's time, were
made unlawfully for the most part. and
in defiance of the best interests of the
communities in the vicinity OF and need
ing those lands that were withdrawn,
President Taft has been an able. Wig.
| liant, efficient chief magistrate of this
| Republic. There is no blot on his es.
cutcheon; there is no possible ground
to charge any neglect of duty or tres
pass against the law upon him. He is
conserver and protector of honest busi-
ness, and he has dragged into court
only unlawful business and specu-
lative combines that oppress and crush
the people,
It is high time that the great mass
OF the honest, conservative business
men of this country raise themselves in
| support of President Taft, for il Will
be a long time before they get n Presi.
dent as single minded, as honest of pur.
pose, as able an administrator and law.
Yer, and man Of as straight forward
candor and honesty of purpose. as
President Taft has demonstrated him.
self TO be,
HUGE CITY IMPROVEMENTS