Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-24


tana, Is an old time Montana cattle man
and one of the most prominent citizens
Of Montana. Re and the president came
into close relationship more than % years
ago when they were both members of the
Montana Stock Growers association the
president being at that time the repre-
sentative of the Little Missouri Stock
Growers in the association. The init
macy has been kept up ever since Mr.
kohrS is one of the pioneer citizens
of the northern Rocky mountain region
and one Of the men who has taken
leading part in its great development
Sycamore Hill.
oyster Bay y y Sept O. 1908
My Dear Mr. Kohrs:
l have received your letter about the
candidacy of Mr.. Taft, the man who I
feel is in an especial sense the repre-
sentative of all that in which / most
believe in political life.
Every good citizen should desire 10 see
both prosperity and justice, prosperity
and fair and righteous dealing as be-
tween man and man, obtain permanently
In this great republic. AS a people we
are justly proud of our business indus
try. 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 ii be pruftable?"
But IL is also no less emphatiCally true
that the bulk Of our people, the plain poo-
pie who found in Abraham Lincoln their
especial champion and spokesman re-
gard the question: rs this morally
right as even more important than the
question: Is this protltable?" when APP
pied to any given course of CON
duct Indeed, in the long run our
people are sure to find that in
all dealings. alike in the business
ana the political world. what Is really
profitable is that which is morally right
The last few years have seen n great
awakening of the public conscience and
the growth Of II stern determination to do
away with corruption and unfair deal
! ing, political economic, social 1t is ur-
gently necessary that this great reform
movement should 20 on. But no reform
! movement is healthy II 1t goes on by
| spasms; II it is marked by periods Of
! frenzied advance, followed. as such peri
DDS Of frenZicd advance must always be
followed. by equally violent periods of
reaction. TO permit the direction of our
public affairs to fall alternately into the
/ hands Of the revolutonaries and rcac-
I uonarleS Of the extreme radicals Of un-
/ rest and Of the bigoted conservatives who
! recognize no wrongs to remedy. would
, merely mean that the nation had en-
J barllod on a fevcrsh course OF violent
/ oscillation which would be frauCht with
{ grcat temporary trouble, and would pro-
ducc no adequate good in the end. The
I true friend of reform. the true foe of
! abuses, is the man who steadily perse-
! Ncrs in rightlu@ wrongs, in warning
against abuses. but whose character and
! training, are such that he never promises
/ what hc cannot perform. that he always
/ little more than makes good what he
/ does promise. and that. while steadily
! advancing. he never permits himself to
! hc led into foolish eXcesses which would
/ damage the very cause he champions.
! In Mr. TAFT we have Il man who com
| bnes all Of these qualities to a degree