The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-23
Hane Co., Broad, New and Halsey Sts., Newark, N j.


~alth, made up Of Americas free
yeomen, ever ready to respond to the
tocsin of alarm in days of peril or to
crush corruption whenever 1t raises its
menacing head. From this citizenship
Ohio in the supreme emergency of the
civil war sent forth more than 100000 sol
diers for our country's defense, a formi-
dable array easily surprising in numbers
the world conquering legions of imperial
Caesar and even larger than any army
ever mustered by Britain for the tented
field. But transcendent above all is the
fact that Ohio is one of a matchless I'M
ion of states linked together in everlast-
ing bonds of amity and constituting an
empire wonderful in power and almost
immeasurable in extent. Each sovereign
state alone would occupy but subordi-
nate place in the great current of the
worlds events, but when represented by
one of forty-sx bright stars on field of
stainless blue every one forms part of an
emblem of union and of strength more
beautiful far than the most brilliant con-
stellation in the heavens.
The most perplexing questions of today
arise from the bountiful development of
our material wealth. Such a development
cannot occur without the creation of in
equalities and dangers to the social fabric.
most strenuously deny that the Amer
lean business man or the American citi-
zen cherishes lower standards than the
citizens of any other country. The Amer
lean people are by no means depraved.
But by reason of their busy absorption in
varied pursuits and of the glamour which
attends success in great undertakings
questionable methods have been able to
engraft themselves upon the business of
the country. Rich rewards have too fire.
quently been gained by some who are
none too sorupulous Monopoly, dishon-
o~k.r
nence which calls for the earnest atten-
ton and condemnation of every man who
truly loves the republic.
Against all these abuses and in the work
for restoring old ideals of honesty and
equality, as well as for higher standards
of civic duty one man has stood pre-emi-
nent and that man is Theodore Roose-
welt. Against corruption in every form
he has set his face with grim determine
ton, prompt and fearless in action and
with that intelligent leadership which has
assured the establishment of a better era
in which the strong and the weak alike
must submit themselves to the impartial
execution OF the law. There was need of
a strong, courageous spirit to restrain
those destructive forces which have as
serted themselves in this time of growth
and plenty. The story of his achievements
will make up one of the brightest pages in
the history of this or any age and will
prove that today as in any critical hour
of social unrest or of danger, the man will
appear who can grapple with the emer-
gency.
Who so fit to take up the tasks which
this wondrous generation demands should
be wisely and impartially performed as
his great war secretary? Since the day
when in Benjamin Harrison's administra-
ton these two FIRST met-the one as So
iicitor general, the other as a member of
the civil service commission-they have
been bound together by like ideals and
aims, by close ties of friendship and by
the exchange of mutual counsel, each
with his own individuality and character
istics keeping constantly in view the en-
nobling vision OF a better and a greater
America, They have not been satisfied
that the temple Of prosperity should be
decked alone by the jewels of the fortu-
nate and the opulent, but have insisted
that 1t should still more abound In tro-
plies which commemorate the enforce
ment Of even handed justice and the
maintenance of that equal opportunity
which spreads hope and blessing even to
the humblest home. Since the day when,
less than thirty years Of age, Mr.. Taft
denounced with burning words member
of his profession who had been guilty of
flagranty vicious practices and had de-
moralzed the community he has ever
been associated with the cause of true
reform--with that reform which will not
content itself with academic dissertation
or hollow words. He has been imbued
with the spirit Of action. His advocacy
of sounder conditions has never arisen
from a desire for the exploitation of him
self 1t has always been based upon I'M
Awerying integrity and the courage to
Dpeak the truth as he understands it on
all occasions, no matter how influential
or powerful the evils which he may at
tack.
No one has ever yet assumed the presi-
Dental chair who had received a more
ideal preparation for the duties of that
great office, AS Judge in state and federal
courts. as solicitor general as governor Of