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Secretary Taft
Opens Campaign
(Continued from Pago 12)
tribunals there have been revealed
as I have already said, breaches of
trust,, stock-jobbing, over Issue of
stocks, and mismanagement in some
of our largest corporations. They
have properly been severely con
demned by all, including the presi
dent. Knowledge of these things
doubtless affected our credit in Eu
rope and hastened the panic; but
those who are morally responsible
for such a result are the guilty man
agers, not those who in the course
of their official duty have made
known to the business world the facts
and commented on them.
Condemns Only Law-Breakers
"It is said that the administration
has arraigned the whole business
community as dishonest. I deny it.
The president has condemned the
lawbreakers. He has convinced those
who" have unlawfully" accumulated;
enormous powers and capital; that
they are not immune. He has put
tlie fear of the law in their hearts.
They have been acute enough to at
tempt to protect themselves by giving
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the impression that his action has
been directed against the whole busi
ness community. It is true that the
business men of our community! as a"
whole, are honest and their methods
are sound. The president has never
said otherwise. Indeed, it is chiefly
in the interest of the great body of
honest business men that he has
made his fight for lawful business
methods.
"Again it Is said that the rate bill
for which the administration is re
sponsible, caused the present panic.
Could anything be more absurd. The
object of the rate bill was merely
to bring the railroads under closer
supervision of a tribunal which could
act upon complaints of individuals
suffering from their injustice. The
immediate effect of its passage was
the voluntary reduction of rates. Sub
sequently under normal circum
stances, justifying it, the rates of the
railways generally were increased.
The continuance of the abuses of the
railway management were made by
the rate bill much more difficult, but
the rate bill hatf not the slightest
effect upon the legitimate business
earnings of. the railways. The ut
ter hollowness in the cry that the
rate bill caused the panic is seen in
the' fact that b,ose who now venture
to advance this proposition have been
for more than a year contending that
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the rate bill was a humbug and a
fraud because it had no effect what
ever because it had given promise
of a reduction of rates and no reduc
tion of rates followed. Then state
legislation against railroads is point
ed to as a cause for shrinkage in the
value of the stocks and for the panic.
Mr. Roosevelt and the national ad
ministration are not responsible for
this. It was occasioned by the same
revelations of lawlessness and dis
crimination in railway management
that made the federal rate bill a ne
cessity. "If the state measures have been
too drastic the cause of the injustice
is not with the national government.
"Instead of making a panic the
national policy of ending the lawless
ness of corporations in interstate
commerce and of taking away their
power of issuing, without supervi
sion, stocks and bonds, will produce
a change in their management and re
move one fruitful cause for loss of
public confidence.
"The business men in the past
,have sympathized with the. effort to
eradicate from, the business system
of this counlry the influence and con
trol of those who have achieved suc
cess by illegal methods. Is all this
to be changed by the panic? Is it
proposed because of it to repeal the
rate bH? Shall we dismiss the
prosecutions for violations of the
anti-trust law: Shall we permit and
encourage rebates and discrimina
tionsby ratlwavs? .Tr this- film rirvnrii-
tion of sanity to which we are invited:
to return? Shall wo join in the sneer?
at the fight of the administration
for honesty and legality In business
as a youthful attempt at an alleged
moral regeneration of our business
system? No panic, however, severe,
can make, wrong right. No man who
sincerely believed the administration
right in its measures to punish vio
lations of law qan now be turned
from the earliest support of that doI-
icy today. y
"I believe myself to be as conser
vative as any one within this com
pany. I believe that in connection
with personal liberty the right of
personal property is the basis of all
our material progress in the develop
ment of mankind and that any
change in our6 social and political kvr-
tem which impairs the right of private
property and materially diminishes
the motive for the accumulation of
capital by the individual is a blow
at our whole civilization. But no
one can be an observer of the oper
ation of the exercise of the right of
property and the accumulation of
capital and its use in business by the
individual and the combination of
individuals, without seeing that there
are certain limitations upon the
methods in the use of capital and the
exercise of the right of property that
are indispensable to prevent the ab
solute control of the whole financial
system of the country passing to a
small oligarchy of individuals.
"The combination of capital is just
as essential-to progress as the as
sembling of, the parts' of a machine,
and hence corporations, however
large, are instruments, of progress.
But when they seek to use the mere
size or amount of the capital which
they control to monopolize the busi
ness in which they are engaged and
to suppress competition by methods
akin to duress, they should be re
strained by law.
"Again I am earnestly opposed to
the government ownership of the in
terstate railways that are the arterial
system of this country. Those rail
ways should continue to be managed
by private corporations. Govern
ment ownership of railways means
state socialism, an increase in the
power of thte central government that
would be dangerous. It would be a
long step away from tho individual-,
ism which it is necessary to retain
In order to make real progress. But
no one could defend a railway system
in which the unlawful discriminations
by secret rebates and otherwise were
practically . without limit in the in.
terest of the trusts and against tho
ordinary shippers. These abuses can
only be reached and ended by closely
regulating the railways and putting
them under the tribunal which can
insist upon publicity of business and
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