Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-03-14
AN ANALYSIS or SITUATION
NOT FLATTERING TO mr.. TAFT
And HIS DlGNIFIED METHODS
Correspondent Points Out the Difference Between Dignity
and Action, Between Investigating and Doing, Between
StandpatiSm and PrOgTesson---n Fact, Between Taft
and Roosevelt.

10 cents for the privilege. That Mr..
Taft walked his best, goes without
saying. l also noticed in the same
theater that when the pictures Of six
possible presidential candidates we're
thrown on the screen, including Mr.,
Taft, that Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. La
toilette got all the applause.
Again, | see, all of sudden, great
attention made to Mrs Taft's visit to
the investigating committee on the
Lawrence strike. She, with all due
respect, actually "shuddered" several
times, according to the press reports.
1t would have been better for Mr..
Taft nd some one "shuddered" for
those poor Lawrence women and
children earlier in the day. Unfor-
tunately, "shudders' are a little late
after the women and children have
had their beating. The great Ameri-
can tariff which Mr.. Taft stands for
as a beneficiary to American work.
ingmen is charged with this particu-
lar crime. imagine 1t will be hard
to convince the wOrkingmen Of this
country that 50 per week for skilled
labor, paid by concern over-capital-
ized by about $15,OOO,OOO, and still
paying 35 per cent dividends, shows
any direct benefit to labor from our
great tariff schedule The adminis-
tration will have something more
serious than third term" rackets
and cabinet officers voting for Taft"
to answer for.
The American people are also quite
capable Of seeing that had Mr.. Roose-
welt been president when this Law
renee strike assumed alarming as
poets, he would have given those
manufacturers "a hours to settle
that strike and compelled them to
treat those women and children with
the civility guaranteed under the
constitution of the United States and
the stars and stripes. Being a man
Of action, he would have instantly
handled that deplorable situation.
Mr.. Taft, however, lawyer and dip
lomat, after the country rises up in
Indignation and jeopardizes his can
didacy, calls for congressional in
vestigation. With a supreme show
Of dignity, the committee conducts
the investigation in Washington
where 1t cannot see too much of the
actual conditions Women and child
rem are there, but the six-foot rufiian
who administered the blows is not
there to have the finger of shame
pointed at him. He is at Lawrence
beating in the breasts of more wo.
men. In the meantime, the "con.
gresslonal investigation" goes on on
velvet carpets and upholstered, chairs
So much for spineless diplomacy,
Perhaps, later on, something worth
while will be offered thinking ant
intelligent voters. The administa
ton has been preparing for thii
struggle for a long time. Even Mrs
Taft has been brought into the cam
paign, the first time the writel
knows Of where the wife of the pres
ident was drawn into publicity foI
political purposes. It is unwise
though necessary. to elect Mr.. Taft
to expose her TO political gossip
Mrs, Taft's frst appearance wal
when she offered her list of rea
, celebrities
The effort to elect Mr.. Taft b,
! beating Roosevelt over the head, I