Show CAMPAIGNING FOR TAFT As 5 tho country countr had a n right to expect the reversal by b the tho United States circuit court of oC appeals of ot the Ue decision of ot the district court against the Standard Oil company com pan which involved the tho tine fine has had hada hadn a n bracing effect on general trade The case cuse goes O fI back to tho lower court for tor a anew now new trial In which hysteria will probably have a smaller part than it had in the stiff which has Just been sot aside The Tho country countr wants to see the tho laws enforced l against all sorts of ot offenders high hl h ana antl analow low but we must protect the courts from froman any an appearance of ot a surrender to dema doma demagogic clamor AVe e must prevent prose prosecution cution from degenerating into anything an which may look like persecution Thus Thu s yeth Tames James V Van Cleve Clec president o of the National Association of Manufacturers In the current number jf 3 American Industries Van is isane ane mc of ot the coterie of men who are preaching Tart Taft as the savior of ot the and predicting a revival of business tho morning after aCter election In Inase Inac ase ac Tart Taft be chosen The present de depression depre pre slon of ot course co rsc is charged ort off the books as due to natural causes Inci Incidentally dentally helped along by President Roosevelt since it cannot annot by b hook or rook be laid at Bryans door In Indeed deed tIle the New York Leather Belting company Is sending to Us Its customers Taft raft campaign cards to be posted on the walls of factories The following Is printed on the Cuds cards Believing that the election of Taft and Sherman means a safe and progressive progressive sive administration the day daJ following their election we start this plant on ful tun time 6 and keep Ingoing It going Robert president of the Aus tin Engine one the cards and Immediately asked why the factories were not running now The full tull dinner P Il was vas promised when Roosevelt and Fairbanks were elected and Mr Baker to t know how It happened that the bottom fell feli out of oC It The action of oC Van Cleve and the ther Leather r ather Belting company compan simply proves that the protected industries of ot the country are banded together in the ef et effort I tort fort to elect Taft Tact with the promise ex explicit or that ir It the tariff is revised ed at all It will be up Instead of oC down down Van Cleves words regarding r the ac action acHon Hon tion of ot the circuit clr court of oC appeals In Inthe Inthe the Standard St Oil on case are ft n direct bid for tor the vote oto of or the lawbreakers of oC the country countr Elect Taft and pun punishment punIshment is the of this particular ular stripe of oC captains of oC industry who ho even if devoid of ot conscience know leno full well they the should be punished It Is all an very well to talk of the laws prohibiting prohibIting this or that offense ottense but what good will the laws do If Taft raft go going going ing to enforce them If hes elected In one of ot the old copybooks was the theline theline line The guilty thief doth tear fear each bank and bush and officer Perhaps the knowledge of wrongdoing and the fear of punishment has considerable to todo todo do with the war re being waged by a certain class of manufacturers |