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Show H TAFT PUSHING BUSINESS DOWN ETLL.' m The Standpatters are attempting to explain why the country, H nnder their administration, has suffered the severest set-back ex- H perienced in twenty years. M For four years the Standpatters habeen crying, "Let ns have H confidence," and 3'et the country refuses to repose confidence in H them. . H Taft was elected to the presidency with the country highly M prosperous. Every j'ear, since he took up his residence at the White M House and began the task of being President, the country's indus- H tries have slipped back and back, until today there is some uncer- H tainty as to what the future will bring forth and capital is extreme- H ly timid and the people displeased M This has been brought about by the vacillating attitude of the H Taft administration. No one knows the mind of Taft, because his H public utterances have been contradictory and confusing. One day H he is naming attorneys for the trusts as justices of the supreme H court; the next day he is declaring for a fierce slaughter of every- H thing that looks like a trust; yesterday he was for the common peo- H pie; today he is making John Hays Hammond, the emissary of one H of the biggest trusts in the United States, his confidant. LTe is for H tariff stability in Winona; when he reaches Washington, the tariff Hj needs revising. l Taft, in his lightning changes, is filling the nation with distrust H and doing business almost irreparable "damage. |