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Show 11. TAFT IS Cummins of Iowa Points Out the Unfitness -of the Man Chicago, Sept. 5. Summing up reasons rea-sons for his opposition to the renoni-ination renoni-ination of President Taft, Senator A. B. Cummins, in a sigued statement, printed in tho Record-Herald today, says: "My general conclusion Is, therefore, there-fore, that in every struggle which has taken place since Mr Taft became President ou vital things, his allies and supporters hae been senators and members of the house, who, however how-ever honest they may be. are known from one border of the countiy to the other as reactionaries or standpatters stand-patters and not progressives. "If the voters of the Republican party believe that the old leadership should be perpetuated they can find no better nominee than Mr. Taft I do not believe it ought to be continued con-tinued and therefore without any personal per-sonal disparagement of the Prcsidont, I am hoping that a progressive Republican Re-publican will ho nominated and elected elect-ed next year." ! His reason for this conclusion fol- ' lows: "It Is to be understood that my opposition op-position to the re-nomination of Taft is based solely on his attitude toward public questions and my conviction that the convention ought to nominate nomin-ate a candidate for President who will be strongest in the election. "With this preliminary and explanatory explana-tory suggestion, I pre&ent my hill of i particulars. It will bo conceded. I ' suppose, that President Taft's alignment align-ment must be defined chiefly: "1 By his position on the Payne-Aldrlqh Payne-Aldrlqh tariff law "2 By his position on the hill for the furthor regulation of lnter-state j common carriers, brought forward about the first of the year 1910. "3. By his position on the clfanse mado In the postal savings law, just , as It was beine passed In the senate, i "4. By his position on the proposed I income tax law, which was sought to ' be incorporated Into the Payn-Ald- . rich tariff law. I "5. By his attitude toward the control con-trol and disposition of our public do- . main : "6. By hos position on tho Cana- . dian tariff bill passed at the extra ses- ' sion just closed. . "T.-'-By his work for tho peace i treaties. "8 By his vetoes of the woolen ' schedules, Ihe free list aid the reso- iuciuji tiu lilt I Lillys ntn (ti..iiv auu Arizona as states. "I shall content myself in the main with merely recalling to the minds of the people the lineup on each of them "1. The Payno-Aldrlch tariff law. Mr. Taft's associates In tho making of this law, which he declared to be the best over passed on the subject, wore Mr Aldrlch and his followers In the senate; Mr Payne, Mr. Dalzell, Mr. Cannon and their followers In the house. It seems to me I am Justified in the conclusion that he did not take 'the progressive view' with respect to this measure. "2. The act amending and enlarging enlarg-ing the Interstate commerce law. President Taft made legislation on the subject the prominent feature of the ''rst regular session after he was iD' -urated. Through his attorney general he presented to congress a bill which was introduced in tho senate, sen-ate, referred to the committee on Interstate In-terstate commerce and reported back to the senate precisely as the attorney attor-ney general wrote It and as President Taft apparently believed It ought to be enacted. "If this bill had passed, as insisted on by the prcsidont, the work of nearly near-ly a quarter of a century would have been swept away and we would have taken a long step backward In the regulation of our railways "The combination was put through the committee under the coercion of Mr Aldrlch and wjth his declaration that not a letter or a lino should be changed In It, It came to the senate and was opened up for discussion Manv parts of It were so bad that they found no defenders, and such effort as j was made to defend the administra- i tlon 'bill was led by Mr. Aldrlch and Mr. Elkins. "It was reconstructed on tho floor I of the senate by the Progressives, against the violent opposition of the 1 Reactionaries who were acting for the president. I believe that people ' generally will agree with me that with respect to this measure Mr Taft did ' not take the 'Progressive view' of tho subject "3. Before the present administration administra-tion came In, a postal savings bill had been practically agreed on In tho senate. sen-ate. The fight which the Progressives Progres-sives had made was to Insure the deposit de-posit of the money put into tho post-office post-office In the 'banks of the local community com-munity "We had won out, l.ut, just as we wero on the eve of passing the bill, ' President Taft had sufficient Influ- i enco to rowrlte that bill, and everybody every-body realizes that as a law, as It was , finally adopted In that respect, it was a victory for the great city banks and f a defeat for the snjall country banks Again the president was found in the j company of the Reactionaries and not " Ith the Progressives. "I. The- Progressives were exceed-"cjly exceed-"cjly anxious to attach an Income tax law Co "tho Payne-Aldrlch tariff act. We had good reason to bcllovo that the president was with us lu this effort,' ef-fort,' but at the moment when It seemed likely to succeed, the president, presi-dent, under the leadership of Mr. Aid-rich Aid-rich and his close associates, brought forward the so-called corporation tax law and defeated the proposal to levy a tax on the great Incomos of the country. Ho did This throirgb the Instrumentality In-strumentality of the moat pronounced Reactionaries of congress. I think It must bo conceded that, whatever else may be said of his action, he did not tako the 'Progressive view.' "We arc encouraged by the suggestion sugges-tion that, wc would bo able to obtaJn an lamendracnjt to the constitution and we could then have an Income In-come tax law or unquestioned validity, but the constitution has no: yet been amenden tc remove the doubt and it Is exceedingly doubtful whether It ever will be. I "5. All that I cue to sn Is that he seems to bo out of hnrmony with those who wero recognized before I his advent Into office as the best ex- ponents of the conservation policy and. as far as I know, his appoint- j ment of Mr. Fisher as secretary of the Interior was about the first act j of his administration which com- j manded the approval of the progress i Ives throughout the county. , I I "G. With respect to the Canadian I tariff bill, there is, of course, the wld- est difference of opinion. It is a false j pretense from beginning to end. It gives free pulp and free paper to pub-Ushers pub-Ushers using print paper and it gives free farm products, but St will not reduco the cost of living and It will I not. In my judgment, -wldon or on-large on-large our markets or manufactures In I Canada. j "Its usefulness has been greatly exaggerated ex-aggerated The newspapers haye their free pulp and free paper and I can i eu3lly understand why the measure J appears to tbem as progressive ac- j tlon, but to thoso of us who have been laboring for a systematic and comprehensive compre-hensive reduction of duties, so that they will. In all schedules, represent I the difference between the ccst o" j production at home nnd abroad, the i Canadian bill Is the most unfortunate j act ever passed within the period of J the present administration for It ha j destroyed the chance of a fair re- j vision of the tariff along Republican s lines for years to come. f "It Is perfectly apparent that w must now either suffer the Injustice i of the Payne-Aldrlch tariff law In- F definitely or the perils of a Demo- y, cratlc bill for tariff only. ' I "It is hard for me to think of the F Canadian bill as progressive, bellev- P inq as I do that its passage was the p .result of an understanding between t the President and those eminent re P actlonarles, Penrose and Lodge, that k they would see It through the senate If all other tariff bills reducing dut- les should be vetoed. ! f "7. With regard to peace traties, t I am In hearty sympathy with the h President In an endeavor tp broaden P the field of arbitration, but they can hardly be Instanced as a jjroat ad- El vance In the move for poaco when e 1 they are constructed as the Pre?l- dent himself construes them, in his 1 public speeches, nnd as they must necessarily be construed If the senate sen-ate amends them as It proposes, for they are practically the same as tho peace treaty we already have with Great Britain , "8. With regard to the woolen bill ' and the free list bill. I have only to say that I haven't heard of any progressive rejoicing over the vetoes which killed them They were prepared pre-pared with the greatest care and In the full light of abundant Informa-toln Informa-toln and both amply justified by the standard of protection. "I predict that these bills gave the President the only ch-ance he would ever have to sign actB reducing the iniquitous duties of the Payne-Aldrich law, but preserving the system of protection In waiting for his tariff report, he lost an opportunity which. Democrats will not give him again. "With respect to the veto oT the resolution res-olution admitting Nov Mexico and Arizona as states, I have this to say "Somo of the progressives were opposed op-posed to provisions In both constitutions. consti-tutions. They were not all In favor of the form of initiative, rcfercndBm and recall, found in the Arizona constitution con-stitution I do not approve the re-! call of Judges All of these things hecomc Immaterial In the presence of one progressive proposition, viz: that congress had no right to prescribe constitutions for these Incoming states " |