The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-09-20
Speech of Or. j. Wesley &ss-.
Continued from last weekA

Upon the other hand, wnrFsnzs
men have felt the mncertainsy ax 2
consequently unsafety of eonamaxrss
under the old system. A xntSssy
man has not as many lives ar a s.zz
He cannot change employmaYsi or
the bidding of Democrat, q Sp2as-
list or Republican. He has suRHaxsz
insuperable burdens and unsygsau-
bic wrongs in the operation III t1r1
former partisan tariff policy. LIN.
Quoted into trade through tfe
stimulating effect of one tarIM, 0s~,
has been turned out through the gar
| alyzing effect of another; wxszS4--.
quently the business world has zssn.
a restless sea, upon which many ~
bark has gone down by sud&W
squall or wrecked upon the saEdSrw1
OF unseen and unexpected tariff Rsx-
| islation, while countless victims asf
| the unscientifio sectional >>paraxsSm
system have appealed in vain fur x--
liei
Prior to the tariff board syeaaus
established by President Tart, 2rtse
French milliner was the modag Ix1re
ed upon the business world. J,nxs
creative genius goes into retirymssm
at the beginning of each season s0S
by some process of special spectxxn
analysis or integral calculus IiS1s-
ers that the plume which polRssa
toward the horizon in the wTrstrr
should point toward the zenith Isr
the spring, and as a result our Agwr-
lean women are paying every srsssm
millions of dollars for the nftmeseas
Of a feather.
That has been our model in AAA
past. The business interests and yse-
tivities OF the country have SsrS
Kaleidoscope changing season W.
season, quadrennium by qua 1rrnsS
um. administration after adminissTz-
tion, and all as the result OF the yaS-
tisan control of our tariff syE1sM-
Today the business world is upon ..
solid basis. Through the prcgTes-
siveness Of President Taft the paFxt-
san control of tariff legislation rs w
an end Scientific control at hama
A board of specialists, men IrsSiaV
and grounded in economic &rU@-
ledge, in power of investigations aaG
analysis, free from the spirit or .pax-
tisanship, are now reducing the exs~
iff question to scientific basis, Say
ing bare the keart of the prosHs@
viz. the difference in the cost or 9Hs
1,ctinp homo op5 abroad
This achievement will make lnat,
nous the administration of Presidguy
Taft throughout our national hitstxy
1t stamps him MS a statesman Esr
removed from petty politics, inspm
ed by purest patriotism, contrDS@E
by the clearest and wisest bnssusss
discernment and devoted to ap
highest and most far reaching IN
terests Of the people.
Measured by his achievement
The tariff board, the railroad bisa, Eat
corporation tax bill, the employers
liability act, the commerce courf- GNo
postal savings banks, the bureau at
mines and\mining for the safegCsE6
ing and protection Of miners, nhg
child bureau bill and kindred svSFs
istive enactments-he has advances
leagues and leagues beyond sas
other president in the history 9J fse'
nation, and stands today beforv 'The
American people rooted and ground
ed in the "arduous greatness Sg
things achieved" /" =
ftrr
lative achievement of the presidgHk
however, without pausing. to ansEeS
the criticism to which he has Yscex
subjected for signing the Payne-A
drich bill. He signed that exactly NJ.
Mckinley signed the Dingley ssh
Neither was perfect. They ysSTsd
scientific light. The data necessary
to even their approximate perfecssUs
was wanting. The Dingley bin Dis
not entirely satisfy Mckinley. TreS
Payne-Aldrich bill did not measHrs
up to the ideal of President I1st
Nevertheless, as the Dingley bill as&
an improvement over all past sst&
legislation, so the Payne-Aldricb bNR
was vast Improvement over ehe
Dingley bill, an Improvement. on ISS
reduction of the tariff on the ne,Ns
sites of life and in wise proyisioxs,
for increased revenue to meet tbern
penses of the government. In sssn
ing it, President Taft declared eha
its defects would be speedily ryur~
died by the work of the taxff beHrs
That his prophecy has been fuIIiiswr
is already demonstrated by the rr-
ports and recommendations vf sxe
board to the present session OF 'css-
gress. Upon the basis of that re-
port the president has recommeades
tariff legislation which will prevSfe
for the difference between the rDxs.
of production at home and abrsax
and maintain our present high or,tss
of prosperity.
Prosperity and production W1
synonymous. Free trade and csaaH
ity walk hand in hand. Whateytr
may be the defects of the Payne Sy-
iff bill. the Republican party Is, 1ur
aal n ..oI a. x,sttx-Sy,, r.