The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07
He Is Well Satisfied with Con-
ditions and Outlook.
HE HEARS ONLY GOOD REPORTS
From HiIIes Who Has Been in
the Northwest.
Says Third Termer Is No
Longer in the Running.

of their six day automobile trip
through Massachusetts,. Vermont and
New Ham pshire was il marked con-
trast to the first. In the morning the
presidential party attended church in
Dalton and late in the afternoon mo-
tored to Senator Cranes country
place. seven miles away.
I President Taft summed up the po-
! lticaI situation in a statement in
/ which he said:
! 81 have every reason to be satisfied
with politica! conditions. / have been
| simply overwh elmed for days past
with letters and newspaper clippings
/ showing the trend of the tide toward
! the Republican party, its platform and
| its candidates. I have been especially
gratified by the news from the north
western states. Chairman H1Hes, or
| the Republican national committee,
| who has been visiting in the north
west. tells me that reports from all
J parts of these states bring most graf
! flying evidence of Republican conf
| dence and activity, with earnest de-
! termination to achieve the success of
Republican principles and candidates.
! The population of the northwest is
not surpassed anywhere in intelligence
and thrift and attachment to Ameri-
can institutions. The farmers of that
part of the union were never so pros
~erous and they do not mean to risk
the loss of their property by abandon
.
cies have enabled them to prosper.
They are convinced that the third term
candidate is no longer in the running
and that the choice is between the
Republican platform and candidates
on the one hand, and on the other
hand. the Democratic platform with its
plank of a tariff for revenue only. and !
it's candidate, Governor Wilson. who
said in an address at Williams Grove,
Pa. that the farmer does not need
protection.
The Farmers Understand.
at is unnecessary to explain to the
farmer, west, east, north or on the
Pacific slope, when Governor Wilson's !
very frank declaration would mean, |
with Mr.. Wilson in the White House I
and a Dem ocratic majority in the cap
itoI.
The principal reason for the exist |.
ing prosperity is the assurance that un- |
der the Republican policy of home /
protection and trade expansion Afneri- 7
can industry, while reaching for for
eign markets, is not in danger of los
ing the home market. While our for
eign trade is growing more rapidly |
than at any time in our history. do |
mestic commerce is making advances I
fully as remarkable. Our population |
necessaries of life is increasing pro-
portionately, and. thanks to active |
business and good wages, the people |
are able to pay for what they. want |
ana 10 Keep our industries DuSy sup /
plying their wants.
There Is no serious danger, I be- |
Iieve, to our institutions from indus !
trial agitations. So long as such agf- |
tation keeps within the legal bounds
it is not without wholesome signifi- |
canoe and may tend to improve con- |
ditions. When it passes beyond the |
legal limit. whether those self out
lawed are connected with capital or
with labor, it is a menace to be dealt |
with nv lawful authority.
Notwithstanding occasional out |
breaks of violence in labor disputes, |
there is a growing tendency to settle |
differences by peaceful means, and |
there is undoubtedly manifest a much |
more friendly and humane attitude on |
the part of the employers toward en-
ployees than was apparent not many |
years ago. The golden rule is getting |
to be more and more a guide in bust
ness as well as in religion, Social and |
economical conditions are growing
better, not worse. and Republican
policies fostering and stimulating ma
tional prosperity. undoubtedly tend |
toward this betterment.
What Is Needed.
For the or the community enjoy
ing robust health Quack remedies have
little attraction matter how vocifer
ously recommended as cure-alls for the
body polite. The law of supply and d.
such legislation may properly be en-
acted governing hours of labor and rates
|
thereby giving example for private
employers, are adequate to deal with t-e
wage question.
a tendency to bring down the maximum
to the minimum. Labor organizations are
well aware of this result, where ar
rangement to that effect has been err
tered into with employers. However, as
have said the American people are III
no need of quack nostrums. and to listen
to their vendors.
THE higher cost of living as I have
Gai1 1afr iG wild q ha a Inn n /
the Republican party is too that Ameri-
can workers are enabled to meet the cost
of living by keeping them employed at
good wages Tt is a simple purpose and
as direct and practical it is simple, and
does not need a volume of rhetoric to eX-
plain or get around it. While the cost of
living as far as most of the necessarfns
of life are concerned is not so high here
as in Europe. the wage Garner here IS
seven times the wages paid in Europe !
and Is in that proportion better able to
meet any increase in the cost of living.
II propose in dealing with the trust
question. to keep the great combinations
of capital Within exactly the same con
troll as the city or cross roads grocer y |
that paws a federal license for selling CT |
gars. I mean that both shall obey the
law That's all Simple, is it not?
The sherman Law.
THE Sherman law has been and VIII |
continue to be enforced against all vio-
laters. however rich and powerful they
may be- have recommended nattonat |
without infringing on the
right of the states to tax corporate prop !
erty. but such incorporation would not
or nullify in any degree tie
Sherman law any other law against
in restraint of trade. am It
interstate commission, liking prices and |
otherwise exercising control over business
guided BY law but eo by persoaal isc
ton. would be both despotic and social
isJic' ana no reader Of history needs to be
told that the two terms have a verv
close relation.