The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-28
SOME STRIKING CONTRASTS.

doeS thc same Cnlng or llkc IDlng |
even better than Roosevelt has done, |
he is denounced. When Taft actually |
pursues the trusts he is held to be |
wrong, and when Roosevelt, while |
shouting his opposition to the trusts,
takes measures, in fact, to protect the
trusts, the people applaud. And so it
is all through.
Here is the arraigument. and every
one will be the better for reading it:
Taft said in his winona speech that the
Payne-Aldrich tariff was the best ever,
and was damned for IL.
Roosevelt said In signed article in tho
Outlook that the Payne -Aldrch tariff was
better than any OF It's predecessors, and
was appla auded as an authority.
Taft prosecuted the trusts and wa s
branded as d fool politician and tool OF
the interests.
Roosevelt eXoneratcd Paul Morton a
self confessed rebater and vioIstor of the
sherman antitrust law, and he stopped
the prosecution OF the harvester trust, and
for these things he was acclaimed as n
friend OF the people and their one great
savior from the designs OF the money
power
Taft initiated, secured and consistently
defended the Canadian reciprocity treaty
and was repudated by the farmers OF
the country as y consequence.
Roosevelt at first approved and adyo-
Gated the treaty. praised Taft for scour
ing It's passage, then Il little later de-
nounccd 1t and made IL an issue against
the President In his convention cam-
paien: For this hc was given Increased
devotion.
Taft carefully examined the records In
the Lorlner case, asked several senator's
TO do likewise urged Roosevelt TO help
10 rid the senate OF Loritncr. and for his
pains he was branded as a supporter OF
Lorimor before the convention and then
rebuked by the senate for endeayorinE to
have the Illinois senator. unseated. He
Is considered 10 have been weakly pusil-
lsnmously, and ignominlously wrong
throughout.
Before examining the record Roosevelt
dram tically refused to 50 at a banquet
with Borimcr. agreed with the President
to help unseat him; then denounced the
Presldent as a friend Of Lorimer and
when Lorlmer was expelled from the SEN
ate glorled in the fallen reputation like
victim, shouting without rhyme or rea-
son 81 did 1t, 1t was my fight. and I
won. For which he is forever immor~
talized in the minds Of his countrSmen.
Taft secured the corpora ton tax law,
visions in the Pagne-Aldrich tariff law.
the tariff board and tho pul,lca ton OF
campaign contributions law, and was de-
nounce5 as a friend az privilege and SUB
serviant TO the bosses.
For seven years Roosevelt dodged the
tariff. ridiouled Bryans demand for the
publication of campaign contributions,
then later praised the present tariff law
and the tariff board as the only proper
solution Of the tariff problem, and Is
ha He'd as the enemy Of privilege and the
one champion Of the people as against
the bosses.
As Secretary Of War. Mr.. Taft went into
Oklahoma at the request OF Roosevelt and
pleaded with the people to reject con-
stitutlon chat provided for tho Initiative,
referendum and the recall subver-
sivc. OF representative government. As
President he vetoed the Arizona State
hood bill on the same grounds. For this
people say that he betrayed Roosevelt
from what Roosevelt thought lie was TO
some monstrous sort Of being.
Roosevelt sent Taft 10 Okla homa TO
denounce direct legislation and said that
what he thought about the constitution
wasn't 1T TO print He ridiculed Brvan's
slogan OF Let the people rule" Later
he went into Arizona and opposed the re-
call Of judges. and a 5ew DAYS afterwaId
sion. Then in his Columbus speech went
further and demanded the recall of judi
cal decisions and adopted Bryan,s for
mer plank of Let the people rule" Now
people say that Roosevelt hasn't changed
but that II is TAFT who changed and that
is WHY Roosevelt Is n-htins him and
why he ought to fight him.
Taft changed a big deficit in the Ma
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