TAFT DISCUSSES CAMPAIGN ISSUES IN A NOTABLE INTERVIEW THE PRESIDENT TREATS OF THE TARIFF, TRUSTS, HIQH COST OF LIVING, WOMAN SUFFRAGE, RECALL OF JUDGES, IMMIGRA TION AND GOV. WILSON. PROTECTION RAISES WAGES Think# the Payne Law Ha* Enabled the American Worker to Meet the Cost of Living and Maintain Hla Family in Comfort—Every Able bodied Man Willing to Work Has Work—City Hotel* Thronged with Buyers and Farmers Never Better Off—Nothing Can Kill Prosperity But the Benumbing Glacier of Free Trade or a Wave of Anarchy. President Taft, when in New York, September 24, gave a long Interview to the newspapers in which he discussed fully the campaign Issues. / This Is the interview In part: "Mr. President, have you visited the •Chamber of Horrors' in Union Square, where the burdens upon living under the high tariff are Illustrated?" "No, but a New York friend told me a little incident in regard to It worth remembering. According to the story told me, the exhibition Includes a number of articles of clothing tagged with the price*, and an alleged state ment of what the articles would cost with the tariff duties deducted. I un derstand that a number of establish ments engaged In the manufacture of clothing are situated in the neighbor hood, and a working man, evidently from one of those establishments, strolled at the noon hour into the ex hibition. Looking about him he no ticed a coat bearing a price tag, and indicating what the cost of the coat would be without a tariff duty. 'Why,' he remnrked, 'that would bring the price of the coat lower than what I get for making one. At that rate where would I come in?' It is hardly necessary to say that he would not 'come In' at all, unless willing to work (or one-half to one-tifth of his present pay for making a coat. "The policy of the Republican party ts not to shut out foreign manufac tures, but to foster domestic manu factures and to keep the American worklngman employed. "The tariff should be revised so far KB may be necessary to keep prices from being exorbitant, so that, as I have explained in my speech of ac ceptance, the manufacturer shall se cure 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." "What do you think, Mr. President, of the proposal of the third term par ty to control the trusts through Fed eral incorporation and regulation?" "It would create the most mon strous monopoly of power in the his tory of the world —a power as much greater, as much more autocratic, than that of a Caesar or a Napoleon, as the business interests of the twentieth cen tury are greater, more dominant and far reaching than were those of two thousand or one hundred years ago. "The Payne law has had no more to do with advancing the cost of living than the latest Atlantic cable tariff. On the contrary, it has enabled the American worker to meet the cost of living and maintain his family in com fort. "Under the operation of that law prosperity ha* been gradually restor ed since the panic of 1907. Practical ly every able-bodied man who Is will ing to work has work, and In some of the large Industrial centres, as well as In other part* of the country, the de mand for labor far exceeds the sup ply. City hotels have been thronged With buyers from all sections of the Union, who report ready sales and empty shelves, and are eager purchas ers of goods to Replenish their stores. Farmers were never better off. Every legitimate industry Is looking forward to still greater prosperity, provided the nation's progress shall not be halt ed by the benumbing glacier of free trade or the destructive lava stream of anarchy. "I have not changed la the slightest my view as to the necessity of mone tary reform, or of the great value and Importance of the work done by the Monetary Commission, of which form er Senator Aldrich was chairman. "It is a reform neoessary in the In terest of all the people and must be carried through acoordlng to some practical and efficient plan that will remedy the gross inadequacy and marked imperfections of our banking and currenoy system. "There has been no intervention in Nicaragua. Under conditions of an archy, accompanied by acts of ruth less barbarity, American marines were landed at the request and with the consent of the lawful Government of Nicaragua to assist in proteoting the lives and property of Americans and other foreigners. There was no Invasion, no levying war. Common hu manity dictated the course that has been pursued." "What is your attitude, Mr. Presi dent, en the woman suffrage ques tion?" "Suffrage for women is an Issue to be decided by the States, and there can be no doubt whatever that when ever and wfcerever a majority of worn IS impress upoi their fathei% thstr j husbands, sens, brothers and beaux that they want to vote they will get the right to vote." "Do you regard the recall of Judges, Mr. President, as an Issue In this cam : paign?" "I regard the maintenance of an in dependent judiciary as a supreme ls ! sue, and I thoroughly agree with the ' American Bar Association that the re call applied to judges would tend to deprive the public of judges of abil ity, character, high sense of duty and a due regard to onllghtened public sentiment, and that such a judiciary Is absolutely necessary to the exist once of a constitutional dsmocracy." "What are your views, Mr. Presi dent, in regard to Immigration?" "There are both room and oppor tunity in the United States for immi grants of wholesome physlqus, indus trious habits and good moral charac ter. I hope that when the Panama Canal is opened the tide of immigra tion from will Bow through to the Pacific States, which are very sparsely settled in view of their vast extent and magnificent natural re sources." "It is reported, Mr. President, that Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, has sent out circulars to labor unions at tacking your administration as hos tile to organized labor." ' "I have not seen the circulars you mention, but if the statement is cor rect Mr. Gompers Is as much in error as he was four years ago, when he proposed to deliver the whole labor vote to Mr. Bryan. "I appreciate," added Mr. Taft, "Gov. Wilson's courteous and respect ful personal attitude toward my office and toward me. As to his statement about my being misled by 'bad advis ers,' I wish him and every one to un derstand that I have been and will continue to the end of my term Presi dent of the United States in all that the title implies, that I am responsible for every act of my administration and have no burden to shift on others." TAFT CONFIDENT OF RE-ELECTION Convincing Indications That the Republican Party is Still Dominant When President Taft was visiting his brother in New York a few days ago the newspaper reporters called upon him. After a pleasant chat the President made a formal statement of his views on the political situation: "When I declared, a few weeks ago, that I felt reasonably sure of my own re-election in November, and the suc cess of the Republican Party, I was regarded by some, as entirely over sanguine, and unaware of the situa tion. Today, however, after a number of indications that the Republican Party is still the dominant party, and that the expected growth of Democra tic strength has failed to materialize, my early declaration is shown to be entitled to respect. The Republi cans necessarily will have a reduced majority over 1908 because of the presence of three tickets in the fieM, 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 as serted generally that the Republican Party would secure the vote of the Solid East, including all of the New England States, with the exception of Maine and Vermont that the Democra tic Party would maintain its hold on th* Solid South, and that the Third Term party would secure the Solid West, leaving only the Middle West as debatable ground. Today, with the election still one month away, the Re publican Party finds itself wth a strengthened hold on the Solid East, having routed the Third Term party in Vermont, and tho Democratic Par ty in Maine. The Third Term leaders recently conoedod that we would pick the Stato of Utah out of the Solid West, and, after oonferring with Chair man Hilles and others recently in the West, there is every reason to believe, that the Republican Party will carry Michigan, Washington, Idaho and Wyoming. Moreover, l.t the proper kind of a campaign is waged, we will carry Oregon, Kansas and Minnesota, where the Third Term strength has rapidly waned sines the recent tour through that section by the party's candidate. "I am not familiar with the develop ments In other Western States, al though many good reports have come to me at Bevsrly concerning them, but even with the States already men tioned it can be seen that there is no longer a Solid West back of the new party, but, more nearly, a Solid West reunited In support of tho Republican ticket. This strength, added to the in disputable hold on tho Eastern States, constitutes, In itself, a sufficient strength to give success to the party. "It Is scarcely necessary for me to point to the necessity of re-establish ing a Republican majority In the House of Representatives. If this is done, I feel confident that I will be able to have placed on tho statute books the workmen's compensation law which I urged upon tb<~ st ses sion, but which was sen' . oblivion by the Democratic House. 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