The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-06-23

man who truly loves the Republic.
Against all these abuses and in the
work for restoring old ideals Of hon
esty and equality, as well as for high |
er standards of civic duty, one man |
has stood preeminent, and that man
is Theodore Roosevelt. Against cor |
ruptiOn in every form he has set his |
face with grim determination, prompt !
and fearless in action and with that
intelligent leadership which has as
sured 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 asserted themselv
es 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 cri-
tical hour of social unrest or OF dan
ger, the man will appear who can
grapple with the emergency.
MAN OF THE HOUR.
Who so fit to take up the tasks
which this wondrous generation de-
mands should be wisely and impair
TALLY performed as his great War
Secretary? Since the day when, in
benjamin Harrisons administration,
these two first met,-the one as Soil
citor 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 in
dividuality and characteristics keeping
constantly in view the ennobling vi
sion of better and a greater Anne
RIGA. They have not been satisfied
that the Temple of Prosperity should
be decRed alone by the jewels of the
fortunate and the opulent, but have
insisted that it should still more
abound in trophies which commemor-
ate the enforcement 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 denounc-
ed, with burning words, a member OF
his profession who had been guilty of
flagrantly vicious practise and had
demoralized 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 imDued with the spirit
OF action. His advocacy of soundeI
conditions has never arisen from g
desire for the exploitation of himself
, 1t has always been based upon un
swerving integrity and the courage
to speak the truth, as he understands
it, on all occasions, no matter how
influential or powerful the evils which
he may attack.
HIS EMINENT PREPARATION.
No one has ever yet assumed thu
presidential chair who had received {
more ideal preparation for the duties
of that great office. AS Judge il
State and Federal courts, as Solicitor
General, as Governor of the Philip
pines, as Secretary of War, which hai
included the work of Colonial Score
ta,,r and Diractpr of National Dubli,
Works, he has received his training
and has always shown himself mas
ter of the situation and competen
to make more honorable and beloved
the American name. There have beer
e no years of inaction in his career. II,
has been continuously engaged il
weighty tasks and each successive
service has been characterized by al
increasing influence upon most vita
questions.
. In our domestic affairs, in what
ever position he has held he has dis
. played the rare union of a judicia
temperament with an unsurpasse
+ gift for administrative management
To him belongs the extremely Walt
able faculty of eliminating the nor
f essential from complicated problem
= and going directly to their substance
/. His capacity for work is enormous
r yet quite as helpful is his equabl
$ temperament, which will not allo'
l the annoyances of life to distract O
= hamper him. Although of an aggre'
n sive personality, he possesses an il
n finite good nature, charm of MAJ
G ner and a poise which have mad
p him a model for exalted station. ]
y the final analysis even the highe'
# officials must be judged as men, an
n under this criterion Secretary Ia
o. is now and will ever be known f.
n his broad sympathlcs with ever
n, grade of humanity and as one T.
T. yauably actuatod bog that democrat