The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-09-15
The Real aft

His political advisors, who have urged
him to do this thing and that for policy's
sake, have found him not to be moved the
fraction of an inch.
That he would rather be right than
President" is not mere saying with him.
He lives up to it in every action every day
of his life.
Like Lincoln, he does the thing without
fear; on his own deciSiOn,-"a is given
him the power to see the right"
President Taft knew when he asked fora
Tariff Board that he would injure his po-
litical chances. But that didn't stop him.
1t didn't prevent him from lifting the
Tariff investigation clear of politics, and
appointing commission of competent men
of all political creeds to get at the heart of
the actual net costs of production and man
ufacture, at home and abroad
Mr.. Taft fought for this Board almost
single handed, and against his political
friends, against Congress. But he won.
He was the first President to lay his hand
upon the real Tariff needs.
The first President to show the nerve to
go into the Tariff in an absolutely scientific
way.
For example, his Tariff Board has given the gov
eminent the first thorough and complete report on
wool and cotton that secured.
Such body must be maintained. For without it
there cannot be just and safe revision that will
consider equally andfarly the interests of everyone
President Taft proved himself not politician
when he made a working weapon of the Sherman
Law, which his predecessor had used for oratory
and effect, but not for action
When he brought to time the American Tobac-
co Company, The American Sugar Refining Com
pany, the U. S. Steel Corporation, The Standard
Oil Company, and many other corporations that
were in violation of the "Anti-Trust' Law.
Mr. fort V-fV indie
his first three years in Office opposed to total
of thirty indictments secured during the adj
ministrations of Harrison, Cleveland, Mckinley,
and Roosevelt-or all the indictments secured since
the Sherman Law went into effect.
President Taft did not talk on the Monopoly
Question: acted on it,
And the result is, that independent manufacture
ers in all of these different lines today, have a
fairer show than they ever had before.
He protected the Wool Industry in America, by
his veto-in the face of loud popular objection-of
the Democratic Wool Bill.
Under his administration agricultural study and
development increased every year, till last year
the farmers had the benefit of the greatest amount
spent by the government on agricultural
work-Sixteen Million Dollars
But note please, this year the farmer loving"
(?) Democrats, represented bya Democratic House,
cut doqun the agricultural appropriation instead of
giving it we'll warranted increase.
That's sample of the Wanted Democratic
Friendship for the farmer"
Mr. Taft saw the weakness in the present Patent
laws-the opportunities they give for monopoly in
manufacturing. He recommended laws that would
tend to control special patent privileges.
Yet Mr.. Taft had always supported legitimate
business-large or small.
His wise and just Tariff policy-his protective
Americanism-has given a confidence to National
industries they have never felt before.
Mills mines and factories running full time;
there are no financial troubles. The farmers mar
kettle home markets. right at his door-ready
to consume practically his entire production. And
his products bring higher value than ever before
in the history of the country.
These things all prove the standard of the
They prove his sterling personal worth, his keen
judicial sense, his broad-gauge policies his bust
ness understanding