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Show cm from the beJtinnln. Ho wants tho reviakm to bo thorough and equitable He farors the creation of a board of able cxpriencoJ' nxn-Partl8aa business' busi-ness' men to make the preliminary Investigation In-vestigation into labor and Industrial conditions, at horn and abroad which will form the grround work on which tho wavs and moans committee can hereafter here-after build its tariff adjustments. STANDING BACK OF TAFT. James W. Van Cleave, head of the National Association of Manufacturers, urges business men. regardless of politics, pol-itics, to assist President Taft in carrying car-rying out his policies. In presenting his own views of President Taft, Mr. Van Cleave says; I need hardly remind every reader that it is the duty of all good citizens, Democrats and Republicans. to Btrenthen President Tuft's hands in every practicable way. in all the long Ine from the beginning, no other president pres-ident on entering oiflee, ever had a larger share of the public confidence. All elements of the people believe that he will make a sane, capable, patriotic official. They have faith that ho will be a president for tho entire country, regardless of party or locality. Wo have all noticed that he has captivated tho heart of the south, a region which has given very few favors to his party In the past half century. President Tart's has given an impetus to trade revival. This Is what all of us had a right to expect, and what most of ua undoubtedly undoubt-edly did expecL Shortly after tho election, he said that his success was largely due to tho support which ho received from the business men of tho whole country. We did not support sup-port him because he was a Republican, but because we knew that on industrial indus-trial and financial questions he was Found We knew this not only from what he said during the campaign but from hla record. Ho has played many parts on the public stago during the past twenty years, and has plaved all of them well. His early tralnln as a lawyer and jurist has given him a grasp of legal quesilous in their broad aspects which will be of great value to tho country. In these days, when trade Is recovering from the shock which It received through tho fear of harmful meddling from the White House or congress, Mr. Tait's balance and tact will be of immense service to th people. 1 havo said thai President Taft is sound on all the great issues with which bualness men, as business men, have a direct concern. On tariff rc vision, and also on the subject of a tariff commission, he has taken tho ground which has been held by the National Association of Manufactur- |