1. Day 15 Objectives
Evaluate the degree to which Taft and Wilson were Progressive Presidents
Analyze the reforms implemented by Taft and Wilson during their Presidencies

2. Best tariff bill the Rep Party has ever passed.
Taft’s
Issues
Best tariff bill the Rep Party has ever passed.
Wrong Branch…
Inherits disunited Republican Party…
Eastern Conservatives vs Western Progressives
Old Guard vs “Insurgents”
Is Taft allowed to be his own President?
Early on, Taft picks which side?
Old Guard…Cabinet and Payne-Aldrich Tariff…
But he does push for the 16th Am (Progressive)

3. Give me a break…I was Progressive too…
Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy (1910)
Opening coal fields in Alaska to private mining interests
Pinchot fights back and breaks some rules…
Pinchot fired
8 hour day
Broke up more trusts than TR did

4. Republican Party in 1912 Split…how Progressives (Insurgents) with TR
Conservatives with Taft
8 hour day
Broke up more trusts than TR did

5. TR is Back Osawatomoie Kansas Speech in August 1910
Admits trust-busting has failed
Called for “New Nationalism”
New progressive platform

6. Republicans need to pick their guy!!!!
Why does Taft win?
What does TR do next?

7. Progressive Party Direct Primary Initiative Referendum
Women’s Suffrage
Prohibition of Child Labor
Workmen’s Compensation
8-hour day
Minimum wages for women
Social Security
Regulate Big Business

8. TR vs Taft got ugly

9. Dems offer Progressivism too
Grew up in South
Intellectual more than Politician
College shaped his views from Old Democrat (TJ) to New Democrat…
Many writings on his theories of gov
Like TR…
Large gov is good…
Prez = spokesman for the people
Anti-Socialism

10. Wilson’s Background President of Princeton 1902-1910
Governor of NJ
Defeated NJ Bosses
Passed many Progressive Laws
Most of them are Laws TR would have applauded

11. Wilson vs TR New Nationalism Regulate Monopoly Trusts New Freedom
Break up Monopoly Trusts (artificial creations of greedy men aided by gov)
Regulate competition between free big businesses

12. These guys on the Spectrum?

13. This explains why
Wilson beat TR

14. Wilson’s New Freedom Programs
Underwood-Simmons Tariff 1913
“Pressures” Senators to vote for it
Federal Reserve System 1913
Central banking system subdivided into 12 districts, privately owned
Supervised by the Federal Reserve Board appointed by the President
Clayton Anti-Trust Act 1914
Gave teeth to Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Protects Unions and Farmers Coops
Federal Trade Commission 1914
had power to prevent illegal suppression of competition (Monopolies!!)
Many more!!

16. Government needed to replace revenue lost by lowering tariff rates
16th Amendment 1913
Federal Income Tax
Government needed to replace revenue lost by lowering tariff rates
Individual earnings and corporate profits
Represents the governments main source of revenue
Underway during Taft, all three candidates favored the tax

17. End of Progressivism
Active first term