The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-08
JUST scoLpINe.

IL would be a confession of weakness
10 declare that the Louisville courier
Journals editorial condemnation OF
President Taft is either uninteresting
or unobseryed. Let US present TWO
paragraphs of it, so that even Dtah
readers may hear the gallant Coionei
Watterson as he scolds:
The BaIlingerization of the depart
ment of the interior is of piece with
the general policy of the present ad-
ministration. 1t is, in the final analy-
sis. merely the orthodox Republican
policy of trading anything and every
thing for political prosperity. During
the Roosevelt administration there was
a departure from the established rules'
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President Roosevelt was brilliant
maneuVerer. President TAFT ls Dluh
derer. President Taft is plain, Diuhl
man. He does not know how 10 run
the government for the gang ana court
popularity by whooping IT up Ior re-
form in public speeches. He does not
know how to hypnotic the. multitude
by preaching virtue and smuggling SIN
on fhe front porch and dealing with
s.practical men" in the private oftlce'
What he does he Endorses. He appoint
ed Mr.. Ballinger and, in due tlme' ne
exonerated him.
Good reading, isn't it? Pleasant
recreation-their perusaL But no one
is going to lose temper because OF IT,
No one expects the Courier-Journal TO
indorse President Taft. No one expects
Colonel watterson to become a Repub-
hcan. His politics and his pen con-
stitute all the capital he has in the
world, and if he lost either he would
be doomed to that Oblivion which
would be his own most vivid impress
sion of hell.
And, for the proof that people read
the Colonel, here is a bit of commen'
tary to be found in so recognized
supporter of Republican men and doc
trines as the indianapolis News:
There really never was any reason
whv any one should have been deceived
about Mr. Taft. We do not, OF course
mean to say that he would deceive any
one-that there was any such intention
on his part. On the contrary, he meant
TO do his best. Indeed, he is doing MS
best now. But he is the victim OF ms
own limitations, which were as clearly
marked when he was a candidate as
they are now.
All of which is more scolding. "Fh'
,Ballingerization of the department o.
the Interior" snarls the Colonel; anC
the phrase sticks in the memory
Thoughtless readers do not stop to in
ouire what may be proven by the
term, or what has at any time or place
been proved against Ballinger. But Il
be frank about 1t, the thoughtles'
readers are by no means in the ma
jority. People who think-are. An'
people who think do not take scoldinl
for evidence, nor pretty phrases TO
history. They read the Colonel ant
the Indianapolis News because writer
on those papers have learned how L
spin words together in strand o
pleasant sounding. Neither the Colone
nor the News is read for argument
but for entertainment, And each ca
best enjoy itself by reading the scold
ings of the other.
The rest of the nation will observ
that scolding, innuendo, recital c
opinion. the thought that anothe
man thought'-and then more scolo
ing. make up the mass of anti-adminis
tration huIlabaloo with which tn
public ear has been crammed thi
winter