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lives in New York be read out of this
party" he asked, because he declines
to accept the referendum as the best
remedy to cure the abuses Of popular
government in his own state?
1T only eonblses and distracts to
! drag into national campaign the preju-
dices and shibboeths which have arisen
in the contests of the different states.
Mr. Tafts administration must be
| Judged by the attitude with which he
! has approached and the success he has
attained in dealing with these national
problems, and not according to the views
which any Of us may hold upon these
local questions of state machinery"
! The secretary of war drew attention
to the Investigations that have been
made under President Taft, into prob
lens that had been the subject of Sc
rious controversy for years. The work
OF the tariff board, the Hadley rail-
way securities commission. and the
Hughes commission on second class mail
matter, were typical, he said, of the
methods sought by Mr.. Taft to ascer-
taiE facts.
Il doubt if there has ever been an
administration where 500 many vital
questions of progress were under care
full, scientific investigation and scrutiny
by commissions of competent experts"
h. said.
There is nothing dramatic about such
a method; but a reform accomplished in
tie light of such carefully accerited facts
is more likely TO be permanent. This
is the very essence of Mr.. Taft's meth
cd as rcformer"
President Taft has been most falsely
villfied and abused" in connection with
the tarit, said Mr.. Stimson, and has
in fact, taken the Republican party out
Of the grasp Of the special interests bene-
fitted by the tariff and has made part
Of the Republican progressive policy the
downward revision Of the tariff law
schedule by schedule.
Is not this tremendous achievement
in the direction of national progress
asked Mr.. Stimson, TO completely res
cue his party from the methods and
influences which. if uncontrolled, would
inevitably turn it into party of spe-
cisl interests and reaction! Is he not
right in standing to the uttermost, even
to the exercise Of all OF the executive
powers Of veto against the old privilege
breeding methods of tariff revision en-
played by the Democratic House of Rep
resentatives? Is he not right in in
sisting even against popular clamor that
we shall make clean break with the
past and that no tariff revision shall
take place except upon these conditions
and after a scientific study by non
partisan board of experts"
Secretary Stimson reviewed the adj
ministration and its achievements. He
said that the president had outlined
the system Of trust reform which, if |
adopted, would put the country in "a
fair way of solving our trust problem |
and solving it right; that in the cor.
poration tax the president had turned |
the flank of one of the most stubborn |
fortresses of reaction" His interest in /
human welfare was evidenced by his |
devotion to the progress of the Fill /
pinoes, said Mr. Stimson. through his |
activity in behalf Of the arbitration |
treaties, his efforts for adequate work. |
mems compensation aud effective EN-
ployers' liability laws and his sugges-
tions for an industrial commission.