THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143783, 6 May 1912, Page 3

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

PRESIDENT TAFT’S STATEMENT. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received May 6,3. S a.m.) NEW YORK, May 5. President Taft asserted that Mr. Roosevelt prevented tire prosecution of tho Harvester Trust after a director of the trust, who was a supporter of Mr. Roosevelt, had pleaded with him not to take action. This showed the ox-Prcsi-dont’s inconsistency. A LONDON PAPER’S VIEW. LONDON, May 5. Tho Pall Mall Gazette comments on President Taft’s “blazing indiscretion” in making Americans ask themselves whether Roosevelt is more acceptable for political sobriety. It says, “The President’s friends arc endeavouring to represent that President Taft only desired that, commercially, Canada and America should ho adjuncts to each other. But the dog is not an adjunct of the tail, and President Taft explicitly wrote that tho treaty would transfer all-important Canadian business to Chicago and New York. It is useless to pretend that President Taft’s scheme was anythin,'' but a deliberate plat 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 leaders here and in the Dominion.”