FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1908.
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.'.Whttt reform doeaSecretary Taft
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prouose.for Uio bcnclit oi lauorr
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Mr. Taft has exoressed the con'
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victlon that a law can be enacted re-
i,nltfi(f the liiiliilitv of Interstate
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Questions Asked by Mr. Bryan Jurc(1 ln th MfvfcJ that wlll hav
Answered.
PROPOSES REVISION OFTARIFF
Mr. Tft Expressed the Conviction
That Law van o
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Railroad Companies to Injured
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WASHINGTON. April 16,-Re-cently
while upon hi continuous cam
paign spcechmaking tour, William J.
Brynn Mopped off 'n Kansas City
long enough to make an address. At
that time he took occasion to pro
pound certain questions concerning
William II. Taft as to what he atands
for and what he would do In Regard
to certain matteri of public policy.
Herewith appended are soma of the
(ueationi which Mr. Bryan asked,
and the amwerl oi wr. im, ni
in each instance in his public utter
ances before they were prepounded
by the Democratic leader:
"What does Secretary Taft stand
for? aaked Mr. Bryan.:
One thing which .Secretary Taft
atamU for is well-ordered, well-safe-quarded
liberty against state social
ism and government ownership, Said
Mr. Taft In his address in Boston on
Dec. 30, last:' ; - ,
"If the abuses of monopoly and
discrimination cannot be- restrained,
if the concentration'of walth made
possible by such abuses 1 continues
and increase, and it is made manifest
that under the system of individual
Urn and private property the tyranny
and oppression of an Oligarchy of
wealth cannot be avoided, then social
ism will triumph and the institution of
private property will perish. The
administration has been thus far suc
cessful in showing that dangers from
Individualism can be effectively reg
ulated, and that the abuses in. the ex
ercise of private property can be re
Mraincd. Thus a great conservative
victory has been won and the com
ing of socialism has been stayed.
"The miestion which you. have ul
timately to meet is not whether we
shall return to a condition of unreg
ulated railways and unregulated
trusts, but is whether we shall main
tain a strict system of regulation o!
railways and trusts, or whether we
shall turn tW country over to the
advocates of government ownership
and state socialism. Any one who
seeks a retrograde step from the pol
icy' of the administration is blind to
every political sign of the times."
. "What would he do with the
trusts?" asked Mr. Bryan. .
Mr. Taft in his speech at Columbus
on August 19, last said:
"I would restrain unlawful trusts
nf inuinction
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roccss and would punish with all
the severity of criminal prosecution
every attempt on the part ot aggre
gated capital through the , illegal
menns I have described, to suppress
. compctition-The attitude of the gov
ernmcnt toward combinations of cap
ital for the reduction in the cost of
production ! should be exactly the
game as toward the combinations of
labor for the purpose 'of bettering the
conditions of the -wage-workers and
of increasing his share of the joint
profit of capital and labor. They are
both to be encouraged in every way
so long as nicy conu.i ...... v
within the Jaw." y
"What does he propose on the taritr
question?" asked Mr. Bryan.
Mr. Taft proposes a revision of the
Dingley schedules next year by a re
publican Congress. He 'believes in
the protection of American wage
earners, and reasonable but not ex
orbitant profits for American manu
facturers. , In his- C,olumbus speech,
referred to, concerning the coming of
' tariff revision, MrTaft said: 1 ;'.
"It will affect only those' persons
injuriously who are making an un-
reasoname prom out pi an cju-c.w
rate It now seems to me that even
most of the extremists In the matter
of tariff are of the opinion that It
would not only be unwise, but unsafe,
for the party to fail In Its next nation
al' platform to pledge Itself to a re
vision of the tariff as soon after the
next presidential election as possible.
Those of us Who'favor immediate re
vision can well afford to wait until
after the next presidential election In
order, to secure substantial acquie
scence by all republican s." ..,
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tho Supreme Court. ' T
Uoon the subject of injunctions
Mr. Taft In his Cooper; Institute
sneech on Ian. 10. 1908. said: rHt
"Under the original Federal judic
iary act, it was not' permissible for
'the Federal courts to Issue n In
unction without notice. There had
to be notice and, of course, a hearing.
I think It would be entirely right in
this class of cases, to amend the law
and provide that, no temporary re-
itraininii' order should issue at all
until after notice and a hearing. Then
the court could be advised by both
sides with reference to the exact situ
ation, and the danger of Issuing writ
too broad or jof Issuing a writ with
out good ground would generally be
avoided." ' ' -'', '
He also expressed himself as favor-
fntr "a Drovlsion allowing the defend
ant in contempt proceedings to chal
lenge the judge Issuing the injunction
and to call for the designation of an
other judge to hear the issue." ,
At the conclusion of that speech he
was asked by one in his audience why
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a black-listed laborer snouia noi dc
allowed an injunction as well as boy
cotted capitalist. To this Mr. Taft
replied promptly, "He ought to be
and if I were on the bench. I would
give him one mighty quick"
"What relief does Secy. Taft pro
pose to gives ua ' from the burden
which imperialism has imposed opon
us?" asks Mr. Bryan.
In his McKinley birthday annivcr-
ary speech" at Cleveland last Janu
ary, Mr. Taft referred to the fact that
" imperialism" so-called, had added
to the country's trade something like
$100,000,000. He added: "I do not
think ihnt'is imnortant exceot as a
beginning. If ' the government con-
tinues its friendly policy toward
Porto Rico, and the Philippines, this
trade will treble and quadruple in a
marvelouBly short time, so that mere
ly from the Mandpoint of material
progress, the mutual benefits for the
people we are helping and ourselves,
will be no mean justification for the
policy."
Here epitomized are Mr Tafts an
swers to Mr. Bryan's questions.
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BRYCE TO LECTURE.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 16.
James Brycc, English" Ambassador
Extraordinary from Great Britain to
the United States, will deliver the
next series of E. T. Earl lectures in
Berkeley, according to the announce
ment contained in the Register, just
issued by the Theological Seminary,
under whose' auspices the annual
lectureship series is held. The lec
tures will be delivered alternately by
Right Honorable Jjmes Bryce and
Pressor Geore-e Adam Smith, of
Glasgow, Scotland both being inf the
foremost ranks of educators of the
British Isles. : r r
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