The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-05-21
WHY SHOULD
Be PRESIDENT
President Of United States as
Well as Why He Should
Be Such.

ilIle QutSIlUnt why lat SuOulo uG
President" Is answered in his public
as hereinafter quoted and In
the endowments and qualifications
hereinafter stated.
Speaking to L. K. Torbet, one OF
the Illinois Taft delegation. he said.
"Torbet, have kept out and will
continue to keep out Of every state
that has q favorite son. want my
friends to heed that warning. do
not desire to go into Pennsylvania.
New York or Illinois. Naturally. I
should be pleased to have delegates
for me for second choice"
Speaking at Buffalo. on February
%: I'VE are, however, making our
navy more respectable each year, and
am very hopeful that congress will
take steps which will make our army
a proper nucleus for the rapid en-
largement of a force for national
defense commensurate with the pop
ulation Of our country and with the
extent of our Jurisdiction"
Speaking at Cleveland on January
20: Theodore Roosevelt has been
able to accomplish more in preserva
ton of the peace of the world than
any president that ever administered
or any monarch that ever ruled. And
the influence is the result of the pol
fey of expansion adopted under Will
liam Mckinley
Speaking at Cooper Union, New
York, on January 10: Labor needs
capital to secure the best productions,
while capital needs labor in pro-
ducing anything. The share OF each
labor in the joint product is affected
not exactly, but in general way, by
the amount of capital to carry on
the amount of work there is to do.
the more laborers are needed. The
greater the need for laborers the bet
ter their pay per man. Manifestly. It
is in the direct interest of the laborer
that capital shall increase faster than
the number of those who work. Ev-
erything, therefore, which legitimate
ly tends to increase the accumula-
ton of wealth and its use for produc-
ton will give each 1aborer q larger
share of the joint result of capital
and labor. 1t will be observed that
the laborer derives little or no benefit
at all from wealth which is not need
ed for production. Nothing is so
likely to make wealth idle as insecur-
ity OF Invested capital and property.
1t follows, as a necessary conclusion,
that to destroy the guarantees Of
property Is direct blow at the in
terest of the workingman. What
am anxious to emphasize is that there
is wide economic and business field
in which the interest Of the weathiest
capitalist and the humblest laborer
Is exactly the same"
Speaking on board abe steamship
Minnesota of his official visit to the.
Vatican regarding the Philippine gov
eminent purchase of the Friars'
lands in the Philippines: 81 cannot
doubt, from what saw of him, that
Leo XIII was the greatest Pope in
many years. His craftsmanship was
undoubtedly Of the highest tyne; he
was a Latin poet of great purity and
force, an Italian nobleman of fine
education, and man who controlled.
Almost to the minute OF his death he
was the Pope in fact, the Pope In
control, a Pope who carried out the
policies OF the church as he thought
they ought to be carried out"
On the same occasion: Every Ro-
man Catholic who desires the great
est possible good for mis- community
must admit the value of the presence
of Protestants in the Philippines to
foster and maintain that spirit of
healthy competition which is as use
full in religious enterprises as in the
business and commercial life OF a
country"
Government ownership would put
power in the hands of one man or
set of men that would make you
tremble for the safety of the repub-
lie"
When urged. in October, 1902. by
President Roosevelt to return from
his worrying work in the Philippines
for seat for life on the bench of the
supreme court of the United States,
the highest judicial body in the world,
Mr.. Taft said: "Great honor deeply
appreciated, but must decline. Sit
uation here most critical from eco
nomic standpoint. Change proposed
would create much disappointment
and lack of confidence among peo-
pie. Nothing would satisfy individ-
ual tastes more than acceptance"
Urged again by the President,
month later, Mr.. Taft replies: Rec
ognize soldiers duty to obey orders.
Before orders irrevocable by action.
however, presume on our personal
friendship, even in the face of let
ter. to make one more appeal In
which lay aside wholly my strong
personal disinclination to leave work
of intense interest half DONE" This
appeal. based soley on strong sense
of duty to the Filipinos. was success
full, and Mr.. Taft remained as civil
governor till the proper time came for
him to return and enter the Cabinet
as secretary OF war. with the home
interests of the Philippines then, and
still, in his personal charge.
! With his determination that the
win of the people shall have free
expression; with his sound views of
the relation of labor to capital and
of capital, to labor; with his expressed
appreciation of the expansion OF our
national influence; with his Impartial
view O fthe claims and rights OF both