Evening journal., 1908-09-14
reactionaries or )of revoIutionists.
Hich Praise for Taft

High Praise for Taft
The President praises Judge Taft
superlatively, saying among other
things that the candidate may be
trusted by everybody TO do the right
thing that he "can always be trusted
to do little better than his word"
that IL elected he will be the president
Of no class" and that Il believe with
all my heart that nowhere within the
borders Of our great country can there
be found another man who will as re-
liantly and efficiently as Mr.. Taft sup
port the rights OF the worlingman as
he will the rights of every man who in
good faith strives to do his duty as an
American citizen"
The President tells also how heart
ily i'm accord he and Mr. Taft have
been in the period Of their official as
sociatlon, and reviews many acts OF
Mr.. Taft, especially on the bench,
which show his views on important
public matters and his fitness for the
Office of president
The letter In part says;
Reform Movement Must Go On.
.rhe last few years have seen great
awakening Of the public conscience and
the growth of a stern determination TO do
away with corruption and unfair dealing,
political. economic. social. II is urgently
necessary that this great reform move
ment should go on But no reform move
ment is healthy II Il goes on by spasms;
II 1t is marked by periods OF frenzied ad-
vance. followed as such periods of fren-
zicd advance must always be followed by
equally violent periods OF reaction. The
revolutionary and the rcactlonary really
play into one another's hands, to the eN-
tent that each by his excesses necessarily
tends to arouse such disgust. such foel-
ling Of revolt. I'm the minds Of quiet people
as temporarily to restore the other to
power.
''ro permit the direction Of our public
affairs to fal alternately into the hands
OF revolutionarles and reactionaries, Of
tho extreme radicals OF unrest and Of the
bigoted conservatives who recognize no
wrongs to remedy. would merely mean
a, we Nation had embarked on a fever
ish course Of violent oscillation which
would be fraught with great rempo,a a.y
trouble. and would produce no adequate
good in the end. The true friend of re-
form. the true foe of abuses. is the man
who steadily perseveres in righting
wrongs. in warning against abuses, but
whose character and training are such
that he never promises what he cannot
perform. that he always a little more
than makes good what he does promise,
and that while steadily advancing, he
never permits himself to be led into fool
ish cxcesses which would damage the
very cause he champions.
No Honest Man Need Fear Taft.
I'm Mr.. Taft we have man who conn
bines an OF these qualities to a degree
which no other man Ia our public life
since the Civil War has surpassed. To a
flaming hatred OF Injustice. TO a scorn of
AN that is base and mean. TO a hearty
sympathy with tho oppressed he unites
entire disinterestedness, courage both
moral and physical Of the very highest
tvpe and a kindly generosity OF nature
which makes him feel that all Of his fellow
countrymen are in very truth his friends
and brothers. that their interests are his.
and that an his great qualities are TO he
spent with lavish freedom I'm their service
The honest man Of means. the honest and
lawabiding business man. can feel safe in
his hands because OF the very fact that
the dishonest man OF great wealth, the
man who swndles or robs his fellows.
would not so much as dare 10 defend his
Ievil-doing in Mr. Taft's presence. The
honest wage worker, the honest laborinl
man. the honest farmer, the honest me-
! lchanic or small trader or man of small
means, can feel that in a peculiar sense
AR Taft will be his representative be-
/ lcfN7e of tho very fact that he has tn,
Same scorn for tho demagogue that he has
/ for the corruptionist. and that he woul,
front threats Of personal violence from
q mob with the unquailing and lofty indif
ference with which he would front the BIT
ter anger of the wealthiest and most pow
hcrful corporations. Broad though his sym
pathies are, there is in him not the slight
est tinge OF weakness. No consideration O
personal interest, any more than OF Tea
for his personal safety. could make hir
swcrve a hairs breadth from the cours
which he regards as right and in the in
terest of the whole people
Taft's lnjunetions Defended.
"Mr. Taft has been attacked becaus
of the injunciions he delivered whn
on the bench ] am content to rest hi
case on these very injunctions; I mair
tain that they show why all our peopl
should be grateful TO him and shoul
feel it safe to intrust their dearest il
teresis 20 him. Most assuredly he neve
has yielded as-1 never will yield to thre;
or pressure of any sort. as little II
comes from labor as II IL comes froi
capital; ho viii no more tolerate th
violence or mob Than the corruptio
and oppression and arrogance Of a co