THE U.S. PRESIDENCY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7, 6 May 1912, Page 5

THE U.S. PRESIDENCY.

A STRONG INDICTMENT. (Received G, 8.5 a.m.) New York, May 5. Mr Taft asserted that Mr Roosevelt prevented a prosecution of the Harvester Trust after a director of h.he Trust who was a Roosevelt supporter pleaded with him not -to take action. This would show the ox-Prc-sident’s inconsistency. ; I ; • __ “BLAZING INDISCRETION” BY PRESIDENT TAFT. THE DOG AND THE TAIL. London, May 5. The Pall Mall Gazette comments on President Taft’s “blazing indiscretion” in making Americans ask themselves whether Roosevelt is more acceptable for political sobriety. It a iys: “The President’s friends are endeavouring to represent that President Taft only desired that, commercially, Canada and America should be adjuncts to each other. But the dog is not an adjunct of the tail, and President Taft explicitly wrote the treaty which would transfer all important Canadian business to Ciiicago and New York. It is useless to pretend that President Taft’s scheme was anything but a deliberate plot to destroy Canada’s economical independence. The credit of its defeat belongs to Canadian patriotism. The humiliation of being duped is distributed among the Liberal loaders hero and in the Dominion.”