Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1908-09-25
Sycamore Hill,

S;ts Oyster Bay, N. Y. Sept. 9, 1908.
MY Dear :Mr. Kohrs: ~ l% f. *.
j. =. l. have received your letter about
the candidacy of MT. Taft, the man
who. l. feel is in an especial sense
tho representative of all that in which
! most; believe in political life. 1%s4
Every good citizen should desire
to see both prosperity and Justice,
prosperity and fair and righteous
dealings, as between y man and man
obtain permanently in this great re
: public. As asspeople we are justly:
@bilgotde conservatives who recognize
proud Of our business industry, Of our
energy and intelli igence sin our work;
& and 1t lis entirely right that we should
ask ourselves as to any given course
=$of conduct, t'eWili lit be profitable :"
= But 1t is also no less emphatic icaIly
true that the bulk Of our people, the
4 plain nsoI,Ie who found in Abraham
Lincoln their especial champion and
..aspoke kesnan, regard the question, Is
4 this profitable RE- hen applied to. any
given course of conduct. ~; Indeed, In
the long run our people are sure to
Z find that in all dealings. alike in the
business and the political world, what
lis really profitable is that which is
Z morally right; - The last few years
Z have: seen a great awakening Of the
: public conscience and the growth of a
stern determination to i r: -.,..,9s.,
81 :5: ~ Do: Away With Corruption :
4 and unfair dealing, political eeonom-
ic, social It is urgently necessary
1nrlf
should go On. But no reform move
!; ment is H healthy if it goes on by
spasms; If 1t is marked Sby periods
of frenzied advance folloWed, as such
periods @of frenzied dYance must al
i /, ways be fol- Owed, by equally violent
periods OF reactio The rev yolution'
= I ary and the sre dictionary 4 really play
I. into one another's hand. to the ex
tent that each by his excesses neces
II sarily tends Ito arouse such disgust
$$ u such feeling of revolt, in the minds
of quiet people, as temp porarily to re
s store the other to power. To permi1
81 the direction :of .our, public affairs *
Il fall alternately into the hands. of re
volationaries and reaetionaries Of $the
;Jextrame radicals Sof unrest and Of tht
81 bilgotede conservatives who recogniz,
4 i no wrongs to remedy would merel.
b mean that the natio had embarked
v /; on Is feVerish course 8 of lent oseilla
5} ton which would be ffraught witt
great temporary trouble and Wouls
produce no adeanate good ~ the END en-
The True Friend sof q Reforrr,, 53}
the true foe of abuses, Isl the ma
who steadily iaerseyeres u ightinl
N yroIlgs In wa arring against abuses
but whose cIlaraet ter and training ar
si such that Ile never promises what d
cannot perform, that he always a. iittl
s385S more than makes good hat he doe
y y "a promise, and that, while steadily go
ssI va a,ncing, he never permit ts hinsel
III be led into foolish sxcesses Whicl
would damage the very cause Ia
mpions. In AG II. sI II'a aft We have B
\ man who com Zines all Of these aual
aS ties to a degree sYnlch no other ma
M our public life since the civil wa
M sss8Es# i,as sl1rnassed TO d flaming hatTe
of s,iussic to d scorn Of all that
n base and mean to ID hear synpath
HI the opprest, |, he unit ent ire OH
#fntarestelltless, courage both mora
~ ii physica oE the very highest type
ana a Kindly generosity Il atur
yghi Cit saa i1es hi ID feel thai sail OF hi
sS fellow men are in YER tflf
HIS friends and brothers that tse eli n II
farests are his, and Oh all his grsa e.
suuaa ties are to be- spent WI IN slaV1s
freedom In their sergie ne homes
man af Ineans, hone and .iaT "a :
abiding business ID aIl can feel ssafe 4
his hands because Of the very aae fas
fil AZ the fshones man of Ss atsrea
$$ wealth he srl an ho sfVindl er.isob
fais fellows, would not 30 Illue
dare fo defend dolilg l1is ls1s A
Taft's prese nee.
siisse Honest w age
l,a honest Iaborine ID the homes ne
faras,er. The honest saaeela OH stila l
fra 1ar. Or of Sc
Saai that Id Ia lar sens ~ Ir.sl %
8ha his epreseIl We because ass d
Siaa very fact that has the ssalil
asOrn for the deIaa that Slle has s
ss,e, cpr tionist Wslsll N.Y.
srsr,t threats s55 s'ss1lsns aase
from & mob with ne lna,laa lins s5ss1 an