New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-19
Taft Administration Record Entities 1t to Vote
of Confidence and Continuance in Power.
PLEADS FOR PARTY HARMONY
Limitations Of Constitution Must Be Preserved Republic
Is to Endure Judicial Recall Denounced
Republican Achievements Reviewed.

teney OF the American people to govern
themselves in law. abiding prosperity.
We challenge the Judgment Of tho
american people on the policies Of Nc.
kiney and Roosevelt and Taft.
Mr.. Taft's Pledges Kept.
President Taft, IN his speech of accept
ance on the 18th of July. 1905, paid Just
tribute 10 the great service rendered by his
predecessor in awakening the public CON
science, inauguratine reforms and saving
the country from the dangers OF a pluto
cratic government. He instanced the rail-
| road rate law, the prevention OF railroad
rebates and determinations, the enforce
! ment Of the antitrust law, the pure food
law. the meat inspection law, the general
| companies, the conservation of natural
resources and he proceeded to say:
"The chief function Of the next ad Z.
ninstration, in my judgment, is dis.
tinct from and a progressive develop.
nent Of that which has been perforrne ed
by President Roosevelt. The chief fune.
ton OF the next administration is to com.
pete and perfect the machinery by
which these standards may be main.
tanned, by which the law breakers may
be promptly restrained and punished,
but which will operate with sufficient
accuracy and dispatch to interfere with
legitimate business as little as possible
There spoke the voice Of two Repub.
lean administrations, and tho promise
OF that declaration has been faithfully
observed with painstaking and assidu.
Gus care.
The Republican administration which
is now drawing to close has engaged
in completing and perfecting the ma
chinery, in applying the standards and
working out the practical results OF
establishing Republican policies, includ-
ing also the Mckinley policies Of a pro.
tective tariff and sound finance.
Service of this kind is not spectacular.
Il receives little public attention and lit
tie credit until the public mind is turned
to careful study Of the subject, but il
is Of the highest Importance
Great constructive national policies
are not established by simple declsrs-
ton or mere legislation, or in a single
day or in single year. They always
change conditions in order TO better
them. They encounter inVeterate
abuses. They arc opposed and evaded
in practice. They require to be applied
and enforced by strong hand and a
firm will. They require to be perfected
by administration and supplemental
legislation.
finder Republican administrations there
has been one unbroken. continuous course
of consistent policy and effective perform
ance In dealing with the evils which have
been naturally incident to the amazing In
dustrial changes Of our generation. the
vast creation OF new wealth. the increase
OF our population and the expansion OF our
commerce
1t rests with the American electorate TO
say whether they will permit those minor
dissatsfactions which are inseparable from
all human performance and the desire for
change by which ali men are sometimes af-
fected. TO obscure in their judgments the
wisdom of continuing the execution OF
these policies and the evil of chartering
another and untried party for a new de-
parture in governmental experiment
Republican Tariff Policy.
The Republican party stands now, as
Mckinley stood, for a protective tariff,
while the Democratic party stands
against the principle Of protection and
for tariff for revenue only. We stand
not for the abuses OF the tariff. but for
the benefcent uses.
No tariff can be devised so moderate, so
reasonable. that it will not be rejected by
the Democratic party, provided it's duties
DO adjusted with reference 10 labor cost
so as TO protect American products against
being driven oUt OF the market by foreign
underselling, made possible through tho
lower rate Of wages in other countries
Inc American foreign merchant service has
Deen driven on the face Of the waters be-
cause with American sailors wages and
the American standard OF living II could
not compete with foreign shipping The
Democratic party proposes to put American
mills and factories and mines I'm the same
position, and the American people have
row 10 say whether they wish that TO be
done. ! have said that we do not stand
for the abuses Of the tariff Tho chief
cause az abuse has been that we have out
groWE our old method of tariff making
our productive industries have become too
vast and complicated; our commercial re-
lauons too extensive for any committee Of
Congress OF itself 10 get at the facts to
which the principle OF protection may be
properly applied.
The Republican party PROPOSES IN renedv
this defective method through having the
facts ascertained by an impartial commits
sion through thorough scientific investiga-
ton. that the President and Congress-
shall have the basis for the just application
of the principle of protection. The RepublI-
can Congress included in the Payne-A ldrich
bill clause under which the President had
authority TO appoint such a board TO make
such Investigations and report the results
TO him. The President appointed the board
Its members are drawn from both political
parties. Their competency. integrity and
fairness are unquestoned. They have re-
ported upon the woOllen schedule; they have
reported on the cotton schedule. The
President has transmitted their findings TO
Congress. The Democratic House OF Rep
resentatves Ignores and repudiates them
In January, 1911, the last Republican
House OF Representatives passed a bill to
create tariff commission with much
broader and more effective powers for com
pelling the attendance of witnesses and Sc
curing information, charged to report its
findings TO the Congress. The bill passed
the Senate with some amendment but il
was delayed there by an avowcd Demo
cratic flibuster until II reached the House
so late In the session that vote upon il
was prevented by another Democratic fill
buster in the House.
Now the House is Democratic and the
tariff commission bill is dead. The Demo-
cratic party does not want the facts upon
which a just protective measure can be
framed, because they mean that there shall
De no protection for American industries
In the last session and in the present
session Of Congress the Democratic House
has framed and passed a series OF tariff
MiIs Tor revenue only, with complete in
their enactment would bring upon great
American industries.
Presidents Vetoes Praised.
Some OF them have fallen by the way
eide in the Senate, and some Of them have
courageous veto The American people
have now 10 pass not upon the abuses of
the tariff, but on the fundamental oues-
ton between the two systems OF tariff
making
Work for Currency Reform.
The national currency, which the election
Of Mckinley rescued from disaster al the
hands OF free silver Democracy still
rests upon the Civil War basis of govern
nent bonds, and is no longer adapted 10
our changed conditions. II is inelastic: lis
volume does not expand and CONTRACT ac-
cording 10 legitimate demands OF business
II subjects US 10 constant danger OF panics
which begin In speculation and end IN |
paralyzing business. II facilitates and pro.
notes the arbitrary control OF small
group OF banks and bankers with enormous
capital, and tends TO an undue concentra-
tion OF the money of the countrv In q fau,