The Falls City tribune., 1908-09-25
Roosevelt Is for MIR. Taft
President Writes Letter Denying Bryan's
Claim to Heirship

Helena, Mont, an old friend, was
made public recently. The CON-
munication, it was said, was called
forth by William j. Bryan S state
ment that be was the presidents
heir and natural successor.
Conrad Kohrs of Helena, Mont,
is an old time cattle man and one
Of the most prominent citizens of
Montana. He and the president
came into close relationship more
than twenty years ago when they
were both members of the Mon
tana Stock Growers association,
the president being at that time
the representative OF the Little
Missouri Stock Growers in the as
ISOLATION. The intimacy has been
kept up ever since. Mr.. hohrs
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
great development. The letter
follows:
Sycamore Hill, Oyster Bay, n.
Y. Sept. 15-My Dear Mr., Kohrs:
| have received your letter about
the candidacy of Mr.. Taft, the
man who [ feel is in an especial
sense the representative of all
that in which [ most believe in
political life.
Every good citizen should de.
sire to see both prosperity and
justice, prosperity and fair and
religious dealings as between man
and man, obtain permanently in
this great republic. AS a people
We are justly proud of our bust
ness industry, of our energy and
intelligence IN our work; and it is
entirely right that we should ask
ourselves as to any given course of
conduct, "Will it be proftable?"
But it is also no less emphatically
true that the bulk of our people,
the plain people who found in
Abraham Lincoln their especial
champion and spokesman, regard
the question, "Is this morally
right" as even more important
than the question. rs this profit
able?" when applied to any
given course of conduct. Indeed,
in the long run our people are sure
to find that i'll all dealings, alike
in the business and political world
what is really profitable is that
which is morally right. The last
few years have seen a great awak-
ening of the public conscience and
the growth of a stern determine
lion to do away with corruption
and unfair dealing, political, econ
omic, social. It is urgently nee.
essary that the great reform move
ment should go on. But no reform
movement is healthy if it goes on
by spasm; if it is. marked by
periods of frenzied advance must
always be followed, by equally
violent periods of reaction.
.rhe revolutionary and the re-
dictionary really play into one
anothers, to the extent that each
by mis- excuses necessarily tends
to arorse such disgust, such feel
ing of revoltin the minds of quiet
people, as temporarily to restore
the other to power. To permit
the direction of our public affairs
to fall alternately into the hands
of revolutionaries and reaction.
aries of the extreme radicals of
unrest and of the bigoted conser-
yative who recognize no wrongs 10
remedy, would merely mean that
the nation had embarked on a
~feyerish course of violent oscilla-
ton which would be fraught with
great temporary trouble, and would
produce no adequate good in the
end. The true friend of reform.
the true foe of abuses, is the man
Who, steadily perseveres in right
ing wrongs, in warning against
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