Last Saturday Mr. Taft made the first speech, as the
Times correspondent calls it, in his campaign for re-election. He poured ridicule on the authors of the Woollen Bill, which he said embodied all the defective and ignorant methods of previous tariff revision. Referring to other Bills passed by Congress, he said that never in the history of government had important public interests been dealt with in such a light- hearted way. Was the party whose motto was not really " tariff for revenue only " but " tariff for politics only" to be preferred to the party which was pledged to safeguard scientifically the interests of the country while meeting the public demand for the removal of the Chinese Wall of Pro- tection? Republicans as well as Democrats, it will be seen, are making Free Trade the election cry.
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