Arizona republican., 1912-05-27
Timely Article in Worlds Work, Written by MT. Taft Outlines Stand
 Before People.
TELLS WHAT HE
 IS TRYING TO DO
Discusses Tariff Revision. Business Prosperity, Ar bitration and the
 Judiciary.

NE4N YORK. May 2b.-' W nat Am ! Trying To Do'-an article by Pres ident Taft-appears in the current is sue of the Worlds Work and deals with tariff revision. business prosper ! ity, arbitration and independence of the judiciary. The president asserts ! that he is willing to go before the people for a verdict on his veto of the three tariff bills passed by the house in extraordinary session last year; that no charge yet made against ! him has gone nearer to his heart | than that he. by enforcing the anti trust law. was hurting business; that he intends SD long as he can raise his voice. to continue to favor gen eral arbitration and that the repub- lican party would lose caste as d de fender of American civilization should it take up the judicial recall as one ot it's tenets.
 In part, the presidents article fol- Jews:
 T was elected president of the United States on the republican plat form of 1908. The party declared in that platform that in all tariff legis- lation the true principle of protection is best maintained by the imposition ot such duties as will equal the diff ference between cost of production at home and abroad The party went before the people on that issue and was sustained.
 Our democratic brethren have de parted from the faith on a tariff board which a majority of them once embraced. and. in the extraordinary : ,f lbs p1 hrp tariff bills without the aid of inform ation from a tariff board, drawn in such an unscientific. unsystematic, and reckless way that I did not hes itate to veto them. in order that they might await the coming in ot the report by the tariff board upon schedule K. wool and Woolens, which one tariff bill affected, and upon cot ton and cotton manufactures, which another tariff bill affected We should be entirely willing to go before the country and invite q verdict of the people.
 No charge has been made against me that went nearer to my heart than the charge that l. by the en- forcement of the antitrust law. was injuring the business of the country. enforced it So far as lay in my power and duty because it is on the statute book. I enforced it because I believe it to be d good law, and 1 believe it when properly construed to make a right guide for business. l believe that by the construction of the courts of the laws that are on the statute books. and by decisions that are yet to come, the line may clearly be drawn so that business may suqare itself to those boundaries which the law fixes.
 T should deprecate the suggestion ot any so-called reform that involves constitution changes without our knowing exactly what we are going to do and what the effect of these changes will be. What I woeld depre- cate is the sudden suggestion of amendments for this end, and amend ments for that and having amend ments for breakfast the next morning as if the amendment of the funda- mental law were nothing but the re- peal of an ordinary statute or the passage of an ordinary appropriation bill
 There is one other subject which
  convinced that most of the audiences had the privilege of addressing within the last year were in favor of passing and ratifying the peace treaties just as they were presented to congress-
 T give notice that I have not lost interest in that point and l have no thought of surrendering, because I in tend, so far as I can and so long as favor general universal arbitration 1 acknowledge and admit the power of the senate, and l believe it to be q great part of the structure of our government, and l would not have it eliminated for anything. I recognize the authority of the senate and have no quarrel with the exercise of that authority, but the ultimate source of all authority in this government is the people. It is the people who by deliberate judgment can effect d re- hearts and their souls and their minds, and it is upon them that 1 depend in this matter
 We have treaties pending also with Nicaragua and Honduras to car ry out the policy of the treaty with Santo Domingo and they ought to be ratified
 There are other aims of govern ment to which reference might be made, such as the movement looking to greater economy and efficiency in
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