The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-30
THE TAFT SIDE
BY the Rev. w. S. Grove

--R BRYAN is a sectionanst. He becomes enthusiastic for \ Ia
UVX caMty. He makes himself the champion of a class. He adopts
AvA the attorneys plea for a special interest He is the leader OF
Mr.. Taft is a statesman. The measure of his intellect is the measu
of American history and progress. Whatever aw or principle does not
apply to all the people does not stand in his Interpretation Of the Con-
sitution.
Mr. Bryan is a opportunist. His paramount issues change with the
shifting winds of ignorant clamor. He swings free tt every breeze-be
it free trade, or free silver. OF free Philippines, or free railroads, or free
bank Insurance, or free boycott Or rec patent rights, or freedom from
taxes, or freedom IF Southern Democracy from the clored vote.
Mr. Taft is a builder Of civilization. AS a Judge ne put forth the
basic law of business dealing IN popular rights and public order. As
labor manager and governor-general he laid the sure foundations Of
justice and equality. and he enthused all classes with the spirit of peace
full enterprise and goodwill. AS a diplomat, In smoothing out the tangie
of the Philippine Catholic lands he proved himself the master of inter-
national law, and did his work with such comprehensive honesty that
our government and the Philippine government and the Catholic Church
government all thanked him for his wisdom and his fairness. It is YER
tainly better that or Ship If State b. guided by q compass and ct by
a weathervane.
Mr.. Bryan is ar objector. His genius is to complain. His fellow
ship is with soreheads. His abiding place is the Cave Of Adunam. His
only hope of election is In his ability to excite tho 3ealousies and the
hatreds of all who imagine that they have a grievances. He has It for
a personal platform that everything Is rotten in n state OF American
politics and business, and that he is called to produce a dozen different
panaceas. Of the patent medicine Sort with which to set II right
Mr.. Taft Is a political scientist. He does lot prescribe campaign
patent medicines. He has o confidence in panaceas He does not BE-
heve in magic. He believes in the methods o fnaturea and tho laws o.
business health. He prociaims M virtues OF WORK n tns'ft n mowr
edge and skill. and the unity of industrial forces and the universal
Mr.. Bryan is the advance agent of socialism. He never had . Scheme
for helping anybody to do business o earn money. Every one Of his
to his notification Of the patent office; from his overthrow Of the tariff
to hiseicensing Of predatory bankers; from his usurpanm Of railroads to
his partnership with Debs and Gompers in their warfare on NJ courts
Of equty-his> complete effort is to destroy property rights o fsvo-
lutonze the social order.
nizes the two great classes of American rghts-peronal rights ana prop
erty rights. That people shall be protected intheir persons-to % where
they like, and do what they please, and sell their muscle o. skill or gsnhs
to the highest bidder is Of the fundamental laws of republic
That they shall be protected in their property, against every form Of
confscauon and destruction. to get all they can, and use It o. they
wish, is just Is vital to the existence of u republic. The government
has no right to interfere in either care except to prevent liberty nom
becoming license, and to prevent accumulation from becoming rcObsy.
Mr. Bryan is the workingmans enemy The worst enemy that labor
can have is that form of championship which encourages injustice Labor
has secured many advantages by its appeal to public sympathy. When
it's leaders rebuke public sympathy they become a fatal handicap
Mr. Taft is the worhingnany friend. His decisions from tho bench
IegaUZed h strike N all the ciV1uZed methods of nduStTial arfnr
His practical dealing with laborers prove him trustworthy to their inter-
ess He will not destroy their prospects by compromising their moral
position before the business world.
Mr.. Bryan, in the presidential chair, would be an experiment, with
the chances in favor of calamity.
Mr.. Taft has been tested on many great lines, and has proven himself
as true a he is capable. and has proven himself capable beyond all othsr
men of u times.