Evening star., 1912-10-07
TAFT SEES SUCCESS
Has Every Reason to Be Sat-
isfied With Conditions.
GETS CHEERING REPORTS
Gratifed at Evidences of Republican
Confidence and Activity.
SAYS FIGHT IS WITH WILSON
Hears That Third Term Candidate
Is Not in Running-Protec-
tion the Issue.
GETS CHEERING REPORTS
SAYS FIGHT IS WITH WILSON

BEVERLY Mass, October tt have
every reason to be satisfied with political
conditions says President Taft in
statement which he issued yesterday. Il
have been simply overwhelmed for days
past with letters and newspaper clippings
showing the trend of the tide toward
the republican party, its platform and
its candidates. l have been especially
gratified by the news from the northwest
ern states.
Chairman Hiles of the republican ma
tional committee, who has been visiting
the northwest, tells me that reports from
all parts of those states bring most graft
fying evidence of republican confidence
and activity, with earnest determination
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 American
institutions. The farmers of that part
of the Union were never so prosperous.
and they do not mean to risk the loss OF
their prosperity by abandoning the re-
publican party. whose policies have en-
abled them to prosper.
Third Termer Out of Race.
They are convinced that the third
term candidate is no longer in the run
ming. 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 its candidate.
Gov. Wilson. who said in address at
Williams Grove. Pa. that the farmer does
not need protection. 1t is unnecessary to
explain to the farmer West. east, north,
or on the Pacific slope, what Gov. Will
sons very frank declaration would mean
with Mr.. Wilson in the White House and
a democratic majority in the Capitol.
THE same news comes from all direc-
tions. A Baltimore trade paper. which
has been gathering the views of manu-
facturers in all parts of the United
States, thus sums up the situation:
Good Business Conditions.
"A rapid expansion in business inter-
ests. increasing activity everywhere, fac
tories overtaxed with orders beyond their
capacity to fill, growing scarcity of la
Dor. especially of skilled mechanics car
shortage which i'm many cases is greatly
retarding shipments-such is the condition
of business throughout the country as
voiced by leading manufacturers of every
section.
The principal reason for the existing
prosperity Is the assurance that under
the republican policy of home protection
and trade expansion American industry.
while reaching for the foreign market is
not In danger of losing the home market
While our foreign trade Is growing more
rapidly than at any time in our history
domestic commerce is making advances
fully as remarkable. Our population is
increasing. the demand for the neces-
saries of life is increasing proportionate-
1y and. thanks to active business and
good wages, the people are able to pay
for what they want and to keep our in
dustries busy supplying their wants.
Industrial Agitation.
There Is no serious danger, l believe,
to our institutions from industrial agita-
tion. So long as such agitation keeps
within the legal bounds. it is not without
wholesome significance, and may tend to
improve conditions. When it passes be-
yond the legal limit, whether those self
outlawed are connected with capital or
with labor. 1t is menace to be dealt
with by lawful authority Notwithstand-
ing occasional outbreaks of violence in
labor disputes. there is growing tend
ency to settle differences by peaceful
means, and there is undoubtedly manifest
much more friendly and humane atti-
tude on the part of employers toward en-
ployed than was apparent not many years
ago. The golden rule is getting to be
more and more guide in business as
we'll as in religion. Social and economic
conditions are growing better not worse.
and republican policies, fostering and
stimulating national prosperity undoubt-
ediy tend toward this betterment
Qua.k Remedies Not Attractive.
For the man or the community enioy-
ing robust health quack remedies have
little attraction. no matter how vocifer-
ously recommended as cure-alls for the
body polite. The law of supply and de-
mand, along with labor organizations and
arbitration and such legislation as may
properly be enacted governing hours of
labor and rates of compensation in the
public service. thereby giving example
for private employers. are adequate to
deal with the wage question.
"A general minimum wage should have
tendency to bring down the maximum
TO the minimum. Labor organizations are
well aware of this result where an ar
rangement to that effect has been entered
into with employers. However as 1 have
said. the American people are in no need
of quack nostrums and too busy 10 listen
to their venders.
Higher Cost Of Living World Wide.
The higher cost of living as / have
said before Is world wide The aim of
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