The evening world. Newspaper, September 25, 1912, Page 4

—— mn ae npn a » { ) qneresctr (Continued from Firet Page.) ie (An this connection it may be worthy of note that the empire of Japan Tecently adopted a protective tariff, and @ Japanese Calinet Minister, @escribing the effects already apparent, safd that many domestic industries Or manufactures had been unable to compate with low-priced imports, but that owing to the protective tariff not a fow of these were now able tu hold their own. He took pains to explain that the object of this policy ‘was no: nevessarily to shut out foreign manufactures, but to discourage the fad for using imported articles in preference to domestic productions. “That Is exactly the position of the Republican party. Its policy Is net to shat out foreign manufactures, but to foster domestic jactures, and to keep the American workingman employed.” “Then what is your position, Mr. President, on revision of the terigr” HOW THE TARIFF SHOULD BE REVISED. “The tariff should be revised so far as may be necossary to keep ‘prices from being exorbitant, so that, as 1 have explained in my speech @f acceptance, the manufacturer shall secure only enough protection to pay the scale of high wages which obtains and ought to obtain in this country, and secure a reasonable profit from the business, This may be done by the continuance of the Tariff Board's investigation into tho facts, which would enable Congress and the people to know what the tariff as to each schedule ought to be. The American public may rest assured that, should the Republican party be restored to power in all legislative branches, all the schedules in the present tariff of which complaint is made will be subjected to Investigation and report without delay by a competent and impartial tariff board and to the reduction or change which may be necessary to square the rates with facts, So far as excessive prices miglit be due to illegal combination, they can be dealt with under | the anti-trust laws.” “What do you think, Mr. President, of the proposal of the third term party to control the trusts through Federal incorpore tion ond regulation?” “It would create the most of power im the his- tery of the world—a power as much greater, as much more autocratio, than that of a Caesar or a Napoleon, as the business interests of the twentieth century are greater, more dominant and far-reaching than were “those of two thousand or one hundred years ago. Am unprincipled man with such power in his grasp could perpetuate his authority, perhaps | under legitimate forms, and become a dictater until his hold coald be shaken loose only by revolution.” “To return to ‘markets of the world,’ Mr. President, do you regard as hopeless or uscless any efforts in that direction?” THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1912. “PRESIDENT TAFT DISCUSSES CAMPAIGN IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW President Taft, Who Discusses Campaign Issues in Exclusive Interview for Evening World ~— Copyright, 1V12, vy te ves vu lisning Company (the New York World.) the rate of duty necessary to prevent destructive competition from Euro- pean countries and, I must add, alvo from Japan. Under the provisions of the Payne bill 1 was able to appoint a Tariff Board to make investiga- ons {nto each schedule with a view to determining the cost of production here and the cost of production abroad of the articles named in the schedule, Tho Tariff Board made @ report on the production of wool and the manufacture of woollens in this country and in all the countries abroad, and gave similar data as to the manufacture of cotton. If the Republican party had control of the House of Representatives there would have been no difficulty dn passing a woollen bfll such as indeed was pre- gented by the Republicans in Congress, reducing the duty on wool and on woollens to such a degree as not to include more than enough to enadle the wool industry and the woollen industry to live and produce @ reason- able profit. The same thing could have been done with respect to the cot- ton Industry. On the other hand, the Democrats presented to me for my signature a woollen bill and a cotton bill, both of whivh, if allowed to “The recom of my administration does not indicate that I regard such efforts as either hopeless or useless, On the contrary, the advances in that direction heave been greater than at any previous period in our his- tery, and signally successful. Our exports for the past year amounied to $2}170,319,828, of which $674,302,903, or 31.07 per cent. of the total, were “manufactures ready for consumption, the largest export trade and the ‘largest proportion of manpfactures ready for consump'ion the country has ever known. In 1896, the last full year of the last Democratic tarif law, known as tho Wilson law, the total exports were $863,200, of which manufactures ready for consumption amounted to $181,769,1! Dropor- tion to the total of 21.04. These figures seem te be ao sufficient reply te "Gov. Wilson’s talk about the Payne Tariff law being a otralt-lacket for American energy and industry.” “How do you explain the high coat of Kving, Mr. President?” ABLE TO PAY HIGH COST OF LIVING. “The noted English labor leader, Keir Hardie, who $e generally re warded as truthful and deliberate in bis deacfiption of lebor conditions abroad, said in an address in Chicago, on Sept. 17, according to newspaper breports, that ‘88 per cent. of European workingmen are facing starva- -tion’ As the population of Europe is three hundred and eighty millions, Mr. Hardie’s statement suggosie an appalling condition. That condition must be due to @ much higher cost of living as compared with earnings of Jubor than exists in the United States, In some cities of Durope the high prices of food products have led to ing, and it is a fact that the rise fn prices has been worldwide. vings bank deposits amounting to 24,250,000,000 in the United States, or about $45 per capita of the popula tion, indicate that American workers are not only not facing starvation, but are able to pay the cost of Living, and also pat something aside for ‘a rainy day’—such as the election of a Democratic President and Com gress, which would mean four years of rainy days, ; “The Payne law has had no more te do with advancing the cost of Hving than the latest Atlantic cable tariff. On the contrary, it has enabled the American worker to meet the cost of living ang maintain his| family in comfort, ; “Under the operation of that law prosperity has been gradually re- @tored since the panic of 1907. Practically every able-bodied man who Is ‘willing to work has work, and in some of the large industrial centres, as yredl es in other parts of the country, the demand for labor far exceods the ‘Supply. City hotels have been thronged with buyers from all sections of ‘the Union, who report ready sales and empty shelves, and are eager pur- hasers of goods to replenish their stores, Farmers were never better off. Every legitimate industry is looking forward to still greater prosperity, Previded the nation’s progress shall not be halted by the benumbing Glacier of free trade or the destructive lava stream of anarchy.” “You do not appear, Mr, President, to hold owt much hope of revision of the tariff” “Most certainly I do hold out not only the hope, but the certainty of revision, provided that revision shal! not be haphazard, but based upon become law, as the reports of the Tariff Board show, would have made sich a radical cut in the rates on many woollen and cotton manufactures es eerlously to interfere with those industries in this country. This woul have forced a transfer of the manufacture to England and Germany and other foreign countries. MONETARY QUESTION NOT A PARTY ISSUE. “With the election of the Republican candidates for President and Congress revision will proceed at once along the lines indicated by the work of the Tariff Board.” “You mean-to say, Mr. President, that you would call an extra seesion tp revise the tariff?” “MY STATEMENT IS SUFFICIPNTLY EXPLICIT.” “De you agree, Mr. President, with the view expressed by @ number of bankere to the effect that the Aldrich plan ts dead?” “I have not changed in the slightest my view as to the necessity of monetary reform, or of the great vulue and Importance of the work done by the Monetary Commission of which former Senator Aldrich was chair tan. I have said before, and I repeat, that it would be singularly unfor- tunate {f this monetary question should by any chance become @ party issue. And I aincerely hope {t will not. The exceeding amount of con- sideration {t has recelved from the people of the nation has been wholly non-partisan, and the Congress set ite non-partisan seal upon ft when the Monetary Commission was appointed. It is a reform necessary in the interes: of all the people, and must be carried through according to some practical and efficient plan that will remedy the gross inedequacy and Mma:ked imperfections of our banking and currency system.” “There has deen some criticiam, Mr, President, of intervention in Nicaragua, Might I ask what your attitude is toward Latin America?" “There has been no intervention in Nicaragua. Under conditions of anarchy, acvompanied by acts of ruthless barbarity, American marines were landed at the request and with the consent of the lawful Government of Nicaragua to assist {n protecting the lives and property of Americans and other foreigners. There was no invasion, no levying war. Common Dumanity dictated the course that has been pursued. “While I am in the White House the Independent sovereignty of every republic on this continent will be respected as fully as we mean that our own shall be respected by other na‘ions. No advantage, however great, is satisfactory compensation for a breach of national faith, be the victim etrong or weak,” “What is your attitude, Mr, President, on the woman suffrage question?” “Suffrage for women Is an insue to be decided by the States, there can be no doubt whatever that whenever and wherever a majority of women Impress upon thelr fathers, thelr husbands, sons, brothers and beanx that they want to vote, “Ley will get the right to vote. It ts too noble, too serlous, too sacred an Ixsue to be used merely to get votes, I TEDDY’S GOAT ON. RAMPAGE CAN’T SWALLOW WILSON. Animal Forced to Surrender After Breaking Loose From Head- quarters Mooring. They thought they had Teddy's goat safely anchored at the Chainber of Hor. rors in Union Square, Teddina, as the frisky critter 01, Was on ox- Ribition every day and was shown off! of Cincinnati and it 1s his purpose to to all o as an argument on the! establish throughout the land org tariff and as an exhibition of the sur-|aations of ployars and emplo: 4 Th 4 velfare depends upon the pi Fender of the Mouse. They should have ne We lve principle o! can t known that anything with the spirit of) ve Prinsiple Of she American tai NATION-WIDE TAFT TOUR. Oto Mai Came Here to ‘Talk With Prealdent. Fred A guest of F in Warnington panied hi t of di of Cincinnatl was @ nt Taft at luncheon pose ng & country wide to that which was made for the late President MoKinley in 1896, Mr, Gelor is a manufacturer is ca! iff system.” Roorevest wouldn't stay ted down, but| Mr. Geter had ‘a very aatisfactory they reflected without the particular) talk with the Prealdent and left last . night for Cineinnatl te put his plan | brand of thin goat. ae ee dak His goatship got clean away this eh morning ani dived head first into pice tures of Witzon and bunches of Wilson! SAVES HER BABY IN FIRE. Mterature, An onslaught was made on! his Koatship. He excrolsed hie prerogas Mother Risks to Reacae useing the buck, He butted Wrapped by Flames, é pers and they gave him @ wide} 4 two-story frame flathouse at No perth, when suddenly the unexpected) go aott avenue, the Bronx, was de- lay down with » "The Wilson I yeen too much for Teddy nitted to capture without gale und was ‘ed to the he now ts, but no lon) ay, following the stove in the apart- am Mulle Mulie hy 1. 8) through a burning room to MADERO OFFERS AMNESTY TO REBELS UNDER OROZCO. Move Is New Eflort to Restore Peace in the Northern Sec- tion of Mexico. TAFT GUEST IN ALTOONA AT SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF WAR GOVERNOR'S DAY, President Leading Figure in Cele- bration of Conference That MEXICO CITY, Sept. new ala ich movement to obtain peace in Northern Made History. Mexico was made to-day when Presl-| ALTOONA, Pa, Sept. %.—This was dent Madero and bis Cabinet instructed| Presdent’s and Govern Dav a the the Minister of War to offer amnesty! Ajtoona celebration of the anniversary to the followers of Pascua! Oroaco.! or the Loyal War Governors Contes Whe Febel 1988s, Fence held here Afty years ago to con- Btringent measures euch ax the Goy-| pment's suspension of constl- | tional guarantees and the execution of numerous rebels failed to have the deterrent effect anticipated by the Gov- ernment, The revolution in the north, which twe months was confined princtpally to the Stat Chihuahua has spread to Sonora, Coahuila and other States, Only — yeste asked Congr President Madero ® for an appropriation | mitted there the national treasury, | he Government ia convinced of the truth of reports that Gen ‘ Aguilar, cently disappeare at the operating on the boundary was less than | a vn bk iy olnotuti y mo rapidly | A 24-Page Magerine with 10 pages of] gelornd picts Hendy wime. Kvery Sun yy, with the New Yous World, beginning sundae Fe areal heresy he. Be" 4 ntertainiment for trol Mrs, Mullen jost everytiis ao @id the other tenants in the ing. £ Ye This wi witl furaleh Ny, la and Oaxaca, 4 GUBRNAVAGA, Mex At oak chem Riocads te Ns, pushed at Ojo de Axi iddua, ( en of his th Kidd Ove, y rebele y Hew, » news here 6 dia, an actress and ¥ Kavobdedo, committed suicide, helleve women to be as capable of a wise use of the ballot as men, a a I can perceive wherein womai ce extended to the political fleld wm ve a t beneficial bearing on the general welfare and espe- clally on the great fanne of international peace and concord.” “Do you regard the recall of judges, Mr, President, as an issue tn this campaign?” INDEPEN DENCE OF JUDICIARY A SUPREME ISSUE. “I regard the maintenance of an independent Judiciary as a supremo issue, and I thoroughly agree with the American Bar Association that the recall applied to judges would tend to deprive the public of judges of ability, character, high sense of duty and a due regard to enlightened public sentiment, and that such a judiciary is absolutely necessary to the existence of a constitutional democracy. “As I said in my speech of acceptance, the Republican party believes in progress along the lines upon which we have attained progress already. We do not believe that we can reach a millenniuin by a sudden cha: in oll our existing institutions. We believe that we have made progress from the beginning until now, and that the progress is to continue into the far future; that ét is reasonable progress that experience has shown to be really useful and helpful, and from which there is no reaction to some thing worse. “The Republican Party stands for the Constitution as it is, with such amendments adopted according to its provisions as new conditions thor- oughly understood may require. We believe tha: it has stood the test of time, and that there have been disclosed really no serious defects in its operation.” “What are your views, Mr. President, in regard to immigra tion?” “There are both room and opportunity in the United States for immi- grants of wholesome physique, industrious habits and good moral charac- ter, I hope that when the Panama Canal {is opened the tide of immigration from Burope will flow through to the Pacific States, which are very sparsely settled in view of their vast extent and magnificent natural resources.” “I suppose, Mr. President, that you expect to receive a com aéeradle negro voter" “The negroes may be expected to vote with the Republican party, whose first President issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation lifty years ago last Sunday. The Republican party has always contended sor the recognition of black Americans as citizens in the fullest sense and ntitled to all the rights of citizens. The statement of a leading Demo- ratio newapaper that ‘the negroes of the South do not seem to feel the loss of their so-called civil rights’ 1s quite without foundation in fact. rhey feel that privation most keenly, and they know very well that only Republican control of the National Government prevents the dominant element of those States from going further in their humiliation. Progress which does not take in progress for the black as well as the white {s only & sham, a shallow imposition on the credulity of those weak enough to Ye deceived by it.” “It is reported, Mr. President, that Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, has sent out circulars to labor unions attacking your administration ca hostile to organ deed labor?” “I have not seen the circulars you mention, but if the statement is correct Mr. Gompers iss much in error as he was four years ago, when he proposed to deliver the whole labor vote to Mr. Bryan. The record of the present administration as to enactments for the benefit of labor will bear the closest scrutiny of the fair-minded. It should be unnecessary to say that with a Republicen majority in the Senate and a Republican Presi-| dent every enactment favorable to labor was two-thirds the work of Re- publicans. No more. effective method could be adopted for preventing the) frightful loss of life and limb to railway employees than that contained in ® measure which passed the Republican Senate, with my full approval, but did not pase the Democratic House, and which In effect required inter- state railways to insure the lives of their employees and to make provision ‘ot that term, I regret to have to add that the Democratic majority in the House of Repregentatives attempted to deal a crushing blow to one most \important branch of labor, and in effect to destroy all that had been gained in the past forty years in the gradual improvement of the Civil Eervice, by .dopting the seven years’ tenure of office amendment to the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, 1 regard it as of the utmost importance that the people of the United States should under- stand the full scope of that provision, which was passed by the House and |forced upon the Senate and defeated by my veto. If enacted it would have deprived every Federal employee, every clerk in the departments, every | railway mail clerk, every letter carrier, in fact every one of the many thou- j sands of faithful subordinate workers in every branch of the Government, of the protection of civil service beyond a tenure of seven years, The longer the service the more likelihood of being discharged. In thousands of such cases a discharge would be absolute cruelty, for, notwithstanding my earnest urging, Congress has not consented to a pension system for superannuated Federal employees, The seven years’ tenure amendment, had it passed, would have been a blow not to the Federal service alone, but to the people of the United States who are so faithfully served by that numerous array of hard-working, loyal men and women, many of them widows and daughters of the saviors of the nation. APPRECIATES GOV. WILSON’S COURTEOUS ATTITUDE. “I appreciate,” added Mr. Taft, “Gov. Wilson's courteous and respect. fal personal attit: toward my office and toward me. As to bis state. ment about my being misled by ‘bad advisers, I wish him nd every one to understand that I have been and will continue to the end of my term President of the United States in all that the title implies, that I am re- sponsible for every act of my administration, and hi no burden to shift on others. It is for my countrymen to decide whether I have fulfilled to their satisfaction the high trust committed to my charge, and my faith in their sense of justice, in their loyalty to the heritage which we have re- ceived from the fathers and should hand down unimpaired to our children, convinces me that their verdict will be one of approval, and that Nov, & will wi an emphatio indorsement of the Republican party and of Re- publican policies, “When I declared, a few weeks ago, that I felt reasonably sure of my own re-election in November and the success of the Republican party 1 was regarded by some as entirely oversanguine and unaware of the situ- ation. To-day, however, after a number of indications that the Republican party is still the dominant party, and that the expected growth of Demo- cratic strength has failed to materialize, my early declaration is shown to be entitled to respect. The Republicans necessarily will have a reduced majority over 1908 because of the presence of three tickets in the field, j but the Democratic party will suffer also. The combined strength of the Third Term party will not be enough to change the ultimate result. “Five or six weeks ago it was asserted generally that the Republican party would secure the vote of the Solid Hast, including all of the New England States with the exception of Maine and Vermont; that the Demo- cratic party would maintain {ts hold on the Solid South, and that the Third Term party would secure the Solld West, leaving only the Middle West as debatable ground. To-day, with the election still one month away, the Republican party finds itself with a strengthened hold on the Solid East, having routed the Third Term party in Vermont and the Demo- cratic party in Maine. The Third Term leaders recently conceded that we would pick the State of Utah out of the Solid West, and, after confer- ring with Chairman Hilles and others recently in the West, there is every reason to believe that the Republican party will carry Michigan, Washing- ton, Idaho and Wyoming. Moreover, if the proper kind of a campaign is waged, we will carry Oregon, Kansas and Minnesota, where the Third Term strength has rapidly waned since the recent tour through that eec- tion by the pari \didate,”” IMPORTANT for the prompt settlement of the amount due under the law after death or injury bad occurred. SOME MEASURES WHICH HAVE AIDED LABOR. “Other measures beneficial to labor enacted under the present admin- {stration are the creation of a Bureau of Mines, to minimize danger to niners, @ law requiring common carriers to make detailed reports of acct- dents to the Interstate Commerce Commission; a law perfecting the re- quirements of use of safety appliances on railways; the establishment of Federal inspeciton of locomotive boilers and the use of safety appliances made compulsory; authorization of the President by House resolution to appoint a commission to investigate the white phosphorous match evil, and commission promptly appointed and entered on its work. All these measures were adopted by the Sixty-first Congress, Republican in both branches. “The Sixty-second Congress, President and Senate Republican and House Democratic, enacted an eight-hour law on all Government contracts except the Panama Canal; created the Children's Bureau to investigate and deal with the evils of child labor; imposed a prohibitive tax on the manufacture of white phosphorous matches, and created an Industrial Commission, “These measures dealt with labor interests In the more restricted use sider the civil war situation, President ‘Taft and Gov, Tener of Pennsylvania, were the guests of honor, United States Senator Penrose, members of Congress and the descendants of sev- eral of the civil war governors who participated in the famous conference helped In the celebration. President Taft reached Altoona at 6.30 A. M., but remained in his private car for breakfast, and a short rest be- fore he took up his part of the pro- gramme. ‘Although the day was cloudy and rain | threatened, the big feature of the day, a parade of civil war veterans, national COLD SUPPERS eS guardsmen and school children wan not Makes Galt Fes . seriously interfered with, The Pres) pgziciouy on Sateen Sous fdent, Gov. Tener and other distin-| A Fine Salad Drrasing by adding winegar At Delicatessen and Grocery Stores. CHILDREN KNOW THAT MOTHER’S WAY IS BEST “Mother, | fell down and skinned my guished g' re given the prominent Places In t jewing stand, Luncheon for the President and other guests was served in a room in the hotel in which at least one of the con- ferences between the Loyal Governors was held half a century a. After the luncheon principal feature was a speech by the President in a big tent. Leaving Altoona late to-day the Pres- ident expects to reach Beverly early to-morrow, knee. 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