The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-09-17
Roosevelt Makes Contribution
to Campaign Literature
Through Conrad Kohrs,
Montana Catt|eman.

Oyster Bay. N. Y, Sept. l6.-1n a let
ter to Conrad kohrs, of Helena, Mont,
an old time cattle man. n of the
most prominent citizens of Montana,
President Roosevelt enters into a
strongly couched defense of Judge Taft
as a candidate for the presidency.
Mr.. Kohrs and the president came
into close relationship more than 20
years ago when they We're both mem
bers of the Montana Stock Growers
association, the president being at that
time the representative of the Little
Missouri Stock Growers in the assocla-
ton The intimacy has been kept up
ever since. Mr.. Kohrs is one of the
pioneer citizens of the Northern Rocky
Mountain region and one of the men
who has taken a leading part In its
development.
Mr.. Kohrs' letter was called forth
by Mr.. Bryan's statement that he (Mr.
Bryan) was the presidents heir and
natural successor.
President Roosevelt's letter follows:
Sycamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N. Y, Sept.
8, ls0S.-My Dear Mr.. kohrs:
cand ndae re Of Mr' f Taft, i the man ap0v Who me {
feel is in an especial sense the represent
alive of all that in which 1 most believe in
political life.
Every good citizen should desire to see
both prosperity and justice, prosperity
and fair and righteous dealing as between
man dild uldl, OBTAIN permanently III JI1S
great republic. AS a people we are justly
prod Of our bushes industry, of our
energy and intelligence in our work: and
it is entirely right hat We should ask our
will be prohtable?' But it is also no
less enophatically true that the bulk of
Abraham Lincoln their especial champion
and spokesman. regard the question, rs
this is morally right?, as even more i'm
able when applied to anV given course of
conduct Indeed, in the long run our peo-
pie are sure to find that in all dealings,
world, what is really profitable is that
which is morally right. The last few
years have seen a great awakening of the
stern determination to do away with corr
ruption and unfair dealing, political, eco
nomic, social.
reform movement should go on. But no
reform movement is healthy II it goes
on by spaslns; if it is marked by periods
of frenzied advance, followed, as such
period of %frenzied advance must always
be followed, by equally violent per,ads Of
reaction. The revolutionary and the re-
dictionary really play into one another's
hands, to the extent hat each by his ex-
cesses necessarily tends to arouse such
alsgust. such a feeling OF revolt, IN the
restore the other to power. To permit the
direction Of our public affairs to fall al
ternately into the hands OF revolUtionaries
and r-eactionaries, of the extreme radicals
of unrest and Of the bigoted conservatives
VINO recognize no wrongs to remedy,
embarked on a feverish course of violent
oscillation which would be fraught with
great temporary trouble, and would pro
duce no adequate good In the end. The
true friend of reform, the true foe of
abuses, is the man who steadily perseveres
IN righting wrongs, IN warning against
are such that he never promises what he
cannot perform, that he always a little
more than makes good hat he does
Wancing, he never permits himself to be
led into foolish excuses which would dam
age the very cause he champions.
Praise for Taft.
IL Mr.: Taft we have a man who com
bines all OF. these qualities to a degree
Which no other man in our public life
flaming hatred Of injustice, to a scorn Of
all that is base and mean, to a hearty
sympathy with the oppressed, he unites
moral and physical of the very highest
type, and a kindly generosity Of nature
which makes him feel that all OF his fell
friends and brothers. that their interests
are his, and that all his great qualities
are. to be spent with lavish freedom In
their service. The honest man of means,
the honest lawabiding business man, can
feel safe in his hands because of the very
eact that tho dishonest man Of great
wealth, the man who swindles or robs his
fellows, would not so much as dare to de-
fend his evil-doing in Mr.. Taft's presence.
h harln aon man w shs h~naat !, the the honest }hs ia Ia
est mechanic or small trader, or man of
small means, can feel that in a peculiar
because Of the very fact thai he has the
same. scorn for the denlagog that he has
for the corruptionist. and that he would
front threats of personal violence from a
mob with the u%nquailing and lofty In
difference with which he would front the
bitter anger Of the wealthiest and most
TsNy "c n "a t.nf 4 ~ M IrNp 1~,.-l L 4 =
syTnpathies are, there lis In MIN not the
slightest tinge Of No consider
alton of personal interest. any more than
of fear for his personal safety, could make
him swerve. q hairs breadth from the
course which he regards as right and in
the interest OF the whole people.
/ have naturally a peculiar interest in
the success of Mr.. Taft, and in seeing him
backed by a majority in both houses Of
policies Fer the last 10 years, while 7
have been governor Of New York and
president. I have been thrown intos1 the
closest intimacy with him, aud he and
heartiest agreement, shoulder to shoulder.
We rave. the same views as to what is de-
manded b. the national interest and hon
or. both within our own borders, and as
regards the relations of this nation with
other nations. There is no eight for de-
waged in which I have not had his heart
lest and most effective sympathy and sup
port, and the policies for which / stand
0iO iiS poiASiCSE as HUGH aS lille. 43fEolaE9
Expect Justice.
Tt is not possible III the. space Of this
letter to discuss all the many and In
fnitely varied questions of moment with
which Mr.. Taft as president would have
to deal; let him be Judged by what he
has himself done, and by what the adj
ministratioi,. in which he has played Sc
illustrate Just what his attitude is, let
me touch on two matters now prominent
In the public mind.
Mr.. TAFT can be trusted to exact Justice
from the railroads for the very reason
that he can he trusted to DO justice to the
railroads. The railroads are the chief in
struments of interstate commerce in the
country, and they can neither be held to
a proper accountability or the one hand
nor given proper protection onsthe other.
save By The affirmative action Of the fed
erat government. The law az laid down
by the federal courts clearly shows that
the states have not and annot device
laws adequate to meet the problems
caused by the great growth OF the rail-
roads doing an Interstate bust
ness, for more than four-fifth ot the busi-
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