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Show TAFT EXCORIATES HIS SUCCESSOR Asserts the Damocratic Party and Its Candidate Are Seeking Seek-ing a Vote to Power by Disingenuous and Unsound Un-sound Pleas. LEFT CLEAN SLATE FOR WRITING MEXICAN POLICY Farmer President Declares That the Passage Under Dure of the Adam-son Adam-son Bill Was Ons sf the Greatest National Humiliations to Which Our Country Has Even Been Subjected. Sub-jected. Declaring that the campaign of 101G la ns Important as the campaign of 1800 and resembles that cuipnlgn In that the Democratic party uni Its candidate are seeking a Tot of jower for disingenuous, unsound, tint alluring allur-ing reason, William H. Tart, former President of tlie United States, delivered deliv-ered tho opening Lddres of the New Jersey Republican state oumpalgu at Trentou. Mr. Toft said, la part : "The great public advantage in or-ganlaatloa or-ganlaatloa aud couialnaUoa of capital cap-ital and of wage-oarnora ire all recognize. recog-nize. Tlie power tany acqalra may, however, becoaio se great a to tempt to aerloas abuse and pabtlc Injury, and they Iist done so. Hence, wo Uutb had tUa uutl-trast law and tho Interstate coinmurco law, directed chUfly against combination of capital cap-ital but effecting la some meuMire combinations ot labor. Labor leaders have sought exemption from such luws as a privileged olaaa, aud In mm case they have bceu successful. While Mr. Wilson lu one of bis uie-morauduma uie-morauduma attached to bb appropriation appropria-tion bill avowed his opposition to mich class legislation, ho united with tho Democratic Concrete In passing, at the demand of the unions, the Clayton Clay-ton Act, vvhlcli, the labor leaders cliilm, tnkes unions out of the limitations limita-tions of tho Trust Act. "Uuvrlsu subserviency to the de-mnuds de-mnuds of leaders of organized labor tluds Its crowning instance, however, in Mr. Wilson's dealing with the threatened strike of the Hallway Orders Or-ders of conductors, engineers, truln-men truln-men nnd switchmen. Tho orders claim to control 400,000 men, who run tho freight and passenger trains of tho country, which constitute the arterial circulation of commerce, und aro necessary not only to the business busi-ness but, to tho health and life of the people. Were these men nblo to tie up the railways of tho country, us they said they could and would, It would mean enormous loss In business, busi-ness, and great deprivation and suffering suffer-ing to the public. It would menu that mnny millions of other workmen would bo thrown out of employment,' and lose tho high wages they are now receiving, hecuuso without com-mercy com-mercy local Industries cannot proceed. pro-ceed. Tho Itallwny unions said to the railway president "We wish un eight-hour day, with ten hours' pay, and If wo work inoro than eight hours, wo demand 50 per cent moro un hour for tho extra hours. If you do not give us this, we will not only Injure you, hut u will bring disaster to the tommy." -lu railway managers refused re-fused tho demand, but offered to submit sub-mit It to uibltrutlou. They snld It would Increase their cost of operation ?C0,tHX).000, nnd that this vvould have to come out of tho pockets of tho railway rail-way stockholders, by a reduction of profits, or out of tho shipping public by an Increase of rates. Tho labor lenders said they had hnd arbitration In the past and that It was not satisfactory satis-factory that now unless their demands de-mands were fully grunted, no power under heaven could prevent the strike, with Its dlsustious consequences. Under tho duress of tho threat, tile President of tho United Stall's and Congress of tho United States succumbed. suc-cumbed. It was one of the greatest national humiliations to which thu people of this country have ever been subjected. It struck most u blow at tho prluclplu of arbitration for the settlement of industrial disputes. "Mr. Wilson us u publicist, attacked tho enactment of u federal child labor law as an nbsutd extravagance, and u departure from constitutional limitations, limita-tions, anil now within tho last sixty dns ho has personally visited Congress Con-gress to ut-go tho adoption of exactly sin li a meiibtire. Tor thu purpose of evading responsl-liillt.v responsl-liillt.v tor present conditions, It Is advanced ad-vanced In behalf of Mr. Wllsou and tlu- Democratic Administration that the conditions In Mexico wero nn In-lu In-lu ritiiuco from tbo Inst Administration. Administra-tion. The last Administration did nothing to complicate Mr. Wilson's problems. lluerta had been twelve days lu power when Mr. Wllsou came In. Up to that tlmo nothing bud been done committing thu government to one policy or number. Had the Re-publican Re-publican administration been continued, contin-ued, llueitn would htivo been roeog nlzed, but with only twelve days before be-fore tho coming lu of n new Aduilnlx triitlou. It would havo been eutlrcl Improper and Inconsiderate- for the outgoing Administration to commit the Incoming to any policy on tho subject Mr. Wilson cannot shift the bbinn for his blunder In Mexico. He hud a clean Hbito upon which to virUo I when he camo in. |