Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1912 — Roosevelt and Taft. [ARTICLE]

Roosevelt and Taft.

We have never professed any admiration for the Payne-Aldrlch tariff but as Mr. Taft Is a Republican and a professed believer in the theory of protection we see no reason why he should have vetoed the bill, though we should have admired him greatly if he had been able to rise above ail party lines and kill the bill in the Interest of the whole country. As Mr. Taft really tried to get tariff duties re duced, and Mr. Roosevelt, who is on record as an opponent of Protection, did not during the seven and a half years of his presidency, we cannot see on what ground he can attack the president for signing the act.