The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-14
Sagarnnre Hill



oyster Bay, n. Y Sept 9, 1898.
My Dear Mr.. Kohrs
l have received your letter about the
candidacy of Mr. Taft, the man who |
feel is in an especial sense the repre-.
sentative Of all that in which | most
believe in political faith.
Every good citizen should desire to
sec both prosperity and justice, pros
rerity and fair aud righteous dealing
as between man and man obtain per
manently in this great republic As
People we are justly proud of our
business industry Of our energy and
Intelligence in our work; and it is
entirely right that we should ask our
selves as to any given course cf con
duet, will II be ''prOftable?" But It s
also no less emphatictlIy true that
the bulk Of our people the plain pes
pie who found in Abraham Lincoln
their especial champion aud' spokes
man regard the question, rs this
morally right?" as even more import
ant than the question, is this pr7ft- !
able?" when applied to any given
coursc of conduct. Indeed i'm the long
run our people are sure TO find that !
in all dealings. alike in the business |
AMI the political world what is real
ly profitable is that which is morally |
right. The last few years have seen a |
great awakening Of the public con.
science and the growth of a stern de-
termination TO DO away with corrup.
tion and unfair dealing political eco,
nomic, social II IS urgently neces.
sary that this great reform move
mont should go on. But no reform
movement is healthy if il goes On by
spasms: if it is marked by periods
Of iaenzied advance. followed. as such
periods of frenziej advance must all
be followed by equally violent periods
Of reaction. The revolutionary aud |,
m" reactionary really play into one
anCthcr's hands, TO the extent that |,
each by his eNcesses necessarily tends
10 arouse such disgust. such a feeling
Of revolt. in the minds OF quiet peo. T..
pie as temporarily restore the otlerl
10 power To permit the direction of
our public affairs 10 fan alternately
into the hands Of revolutionarips and
Of the extreme radicals
of unrest aud and of the bigotei con.
seryatiyes who recognize no wrongs
.o remedy. would merely mean that
the nation had embarked On a fever e
% course Of violent oscillation which 4
would be- fraught with great tmepor- 5
irg trouble. and would produce no ad- I
.quatc good IN the end The true
HeRd Of reform. the true foe Of a
,buses. IS the man who steadily per q
,eyefes in righting wrongs. in warring a.
IPaiisst abuses. bat whose character ,,
mi training are such that he never
premises what he cannot perform.
hat he always little more than
makes good what he does promise.
nd that. while steadily advancing. he
ever permits himself to be Jed into
oolish excesses which won't dam-I
go the very cause he champions In
t. Taft We have a man who COM '
ines all Of these qualities to a degree
.hich no other man in our prblic Hfal
iruc the Civil War has surpassed.
- flaming hatred Of injustice. % a --
rcrn Of all that is base and mean. 10 4'
hearty sympathy with the ODprest. ~
@ unites entire disinteresteiness ~
1urage beth moral and physical cf 90
be very highest tvpe. and a kindly =
sncr0sity Of nature which makes him pi