The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-09


give the country a very satisfactory |
administration.
The father of William Fl. Taft was |
an eminent lawyer of the Cincinnati /
bar He was of New England stock !
and had served the republic as attor- |
neN general and secretary of war IN
General Grants cabinet The son was
born in Cincinnati fifty years ago, !
where he ATTENDED the public schools
in his early youth and mingled with
the boys and girls of that community, !
and thus he early contracted that DEM
ocratic department that makes him so
immensely popular with all sorts of
people. At II he entered Yale college,
and there he was a marked man-con-
spicuous for his grand presence, man
~ character. splendid intellect and
sturdy manhood. He was graduated
in the class of 1873 and returned to
Cincinnati TO enter. its famous law
school After his admission TO the bar
he edited d newspaper, and later was
made assistant prosecuting attorney.
President Arthur appointed him col
iectOr of internal revenue for the First
Ohio district. one of the heaviest tax
paying divisions of the whole country.
He resigned d year later to enter upon
the general practice of his profession.
Soon thereafter he was appointed to
the state judicial bench by Governor
Foraker, and in 1890 President HaT
rison made him solicitor general of the
United States. In 1892 he was appoint
ed to the circuit bench of the United
States. He was then dean of the Jaw
department of the University of Gin
cinnati Our fathers made one mis-
take in the federal constitution by neg
lecting to provide that man to be
president should first have practiceI
law at the bar, or dispensed justice
from the bench, for the period of ii
least ten years before he was 81 years
old. What power for good thai would
have added to the qualifications of the
man who is now president.
X
When the Mckinley Hama regime
came in the first thing they did was to
make a medieval tariff chock full of
privileges. There had just Dsen COM
pleted a liquidation that was universal
and the American people went to work
with an energy never before heard OF
anywhere. Within the last ten years
more gold has been mined than was
produced in any two or three centu-
ries heretofore, and thus the prospect
ty tarried under the Dingley law as il
would have done under any tariff ever
made, or as it would have done bad
We had no tariff at all.
The Cubans were in revolt, and GER
tain yellow statesmen and yellow Jour-
nalists determined to make this coun-
try enter upon an ingloriOus war with
poor old bed-ridden and decrepit
Spain. If Tom Reed had been presi-
dent, there would have been no war.
We would have bought Cuban indie
pendence and IT would have cost about
one-tenth what the war cost. Dewey
and Schley showed TO the nations that
the American navy was just as ugly a
customer in a fight as it ever vas, and
after poor old Spain was licked and
the Democratic side of the senate was
ca joled into furnishing enough votes 10
the Republicans TO acquire the Philip
pine archipelago, Mr.. Mckinley sought
some leading Republican TO make
satrap of the Philippine islands.
X X X
His choice fell on William H Taft,
and perhaps it was the most fortunate
that could have been made. Taft went
over there, and his view of the people
we had bought was the view IF a
Burke, and not of a Hastings. He IN
terpreted his mission to be a work of
planting American civilization on the
other side of the world rather than
exploiting their sugar hemp, timber
and other resources for the money that
was in them for American adventur-
ers. I do not remember 10 have read
any passage in the federal constitution
vi Dui SON Cl dOAllbi
" to go UP and down the earth civIliZ-
ing people less fortunate than our
selves but that is honester work than
robbing them would be, and as eonSti-
| tutiOnal.
Taft fell in love with that strange
people. He was their friend and their
guardian. He believes they have the
! foundation for the erection of an en-
| Iightened and beneficent civilization.
I Of or his nar-nnaf friends
for whom he has as much affection and
respect as for anv of his frienos in
Ohio or in Washington. He strove 10
| form q good government fer their adj
vantage. Never was there a minister
of a flock or teacher If a class that
discovered more solicitude fer his
charge than did Big Bill Taft for that
people.
And that is why Big Bill Taft
wants TO be president of the United
States. And there must pe something
in that people. They reSponde II
Taft. If he regarded them as children
they looked up TO him IS a father.
They trust him more than any other
American, more than all othe: Amer
leans. and if the hand of GcG is in tho
thing and this government is To be
made the divine instrument TO civiliZe
the Orient, as cur slice of the orient.
Taft is not only the logical nominee of
the Republican party, but the logical
candidate of the American people. No
body knows whac the outcome will be.
Unless civilization has learned some
new stunts, the sword will play the
leading role in this drama. That ia
pan viii insist on getting m the stage
IL as certain as that the japanese are
a Warlike people y time will come
when our occupation OF ths Philip
pine archipelago will be- as intoicrable
to Japan as Spains occupation CT
Cuba was to the United States. How
ever, that is meat for another genera
ton than ours
Taft is big, strong, healthy. good
natured man. but :hsre is all the bull
dog i'm him there is in cleveland! aud
If he shall get the presidency h. viii
be president. His Akron speech and
his judicial decisions 20 which profess
sionaI laboring man object show the
metal of the man. Eoth will cost him
support. and it is lust rs certain that
both will earn MIN evc1 more support
than they will cost him. The s;upe
may be said of che Brownsville cpl
sOde.