THINGS AMERICAN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 120, 13 February 1908, Page 7

THINGS AMERICAN.

MR. TAFT'S VIEW. SOCIAL REFORM OR 'SOCIALISM. Br TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYHIGIIT. . i New York, February 11. .. Mr. Taft,, United ,States Secretary for War, find a'probable-Republican, candidate for the Presidency,' speaking in. Kansas city, insisted ..that r vigorous action was .ncccssary to eradicate existing business abuses. Unless effec- . tiyo social and /moral roforms werb secured, society as at present, constituted must yield to. a new- order' of things on a .Socialist basis. Mr. Taft-has-ngain struck-the Roosevelt note,' which is,. briefly, the repudiation both of plutocratic and of mob rule; iind Mr. Roosevelt did not fail 1 to (joint • out that an'unbridled exorcise ..of the. ioriner 'might easily lead to , the latter. 1 . In .hla , Jamestown, speech, Mr. Roosevelt said"We baso .our regard for eaoli •man. on-the'essentials jive, judge him not by his profession;, but .by .his deeds. Other Re-: 'publics have fallon'becauso'the citizens gradually grow to consider-tho'interests of a class beforo the interests, of tho' whole. This great Republic of ours shall nover become the government of a plutocracy, and it . shall never become .tho government of a mob. 7 God ' willing, it shall remain a government in. which, each man stands on his worth as 1 a man."