Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-02-25
PEOPLE LOOK TO TAFT FOR ACTION
Republican and Independent
Editors Vote on President
and Tariff Analysed.

In double-leaded editorial printed
in the first two columns Of the first
page of Chicago Tribune analyzes
the vote of republican and indepen'
dent editors of taken on the Aldrich
law, the speaker, house and senate
organization and the presiden tial
preference.
The editorial says:
''There is a marked distinction in
the tone of the votes cast on the Aid
rich law, the speaker, and the house
and senate organizations on the one
hand and the ballots cast on the preSi-
dency on the other. The ballots cast
against the law, the speaker, and the
house and senate showed the wrath of
| the people against them, while the
| presiden tial ballots showed disappoint-
ment and regret. =
"The undercurrent of feeling shown
in the presidential comment in the
flood of ballots which flowed into the
Tribune office may be summed up in
the phrase Hope deferred maketh the
heart sick There is no question that
the country would like to amend for
the president the phrase 'Suaviter in
modo fortiter in re- by cutting off the
first half with an invitation to him to
go to it,
cit is the judgment of the Tribune
that the president, in genuine sense,
has been done an injustice. Of the
honesty and courage of William II.
Taft the Tribune is as certain to day
as when he took office. The president
is doing his utmost in his own way to
carry out the policies of his predeces-
sor and to build upon them.
COMPOSITION OF ORGANIZATION
"The president is himself enmeshed,
obstructed, and dominated by an or
ganization long experienced, and dom
inant in legislation, which beset him
with pit falls and bound him with
withes which he could not feel.
"And what was the composition Of
that organization and what was the
source from which that organization
drew its strength?
"The stronghold of privilege.
"And who were it's representatives
in the two houses of congress?
"Subsidized assassins of legislation,
men who have grown to be as much a
part of the predatory rich as a fly i'm
bedded in amber. Western congress
men and senators who through long as
sOciation with rich and powerful men
who frequent Washington III oific-
ial or unofficial life, had been attracted
by the great baubes of money or power.
Cemented together as unit by the
common interest of power and money,
they were men who no longer sought
to influence legislation, but to control
it, and who had come almost into the
openin their arrogance and greed, ana
what happended?
"a man who knew them by observa-
tion because he was reared among
them, a man accustomed to fighting
corruption in the police force and in
the national civil service and who
through long residence in the west
had learned the aspirations of the
plain people became president of the
United States. And after seven years
of struggle he tore aside part of the veil
and the people saw that the grand old
party of their father, which had been
founded on the ideal of liberty, de-
mocracy, was largely in the control of
those to whom liberty means license
and legislation fraud.
FEARS JEOPARDIzING USEFULNESS
"Many and many an honest man in
the house and senate under the do
m inion Of the cohesive power Of plundr
or prejudice has not stepped out in
the open against the organization for
fear that he might sacrifice his con-
stitutents for his freedom, for fear
that his own increased usefulness by
promotion in com ittee assignments
might be jeopardized by angering the
white-haired mandarins Of congress.
"WitnesS the last committees ap-
pointed by the speaker and the penal
ties therein imposed on those who
dared to raise their voice against the
dominating figures in the house.
"The Chicago Tribune has learned
the value of it's editorial ballots. One
foreshadowed Taft's vote in the last
convention and the other the first cleo
tion of Cannon as speaker. And if the
ballot of the last week has served no
other purpose it has served to dis
| tinguish between the attitude of the
people toward the president and their
attitude toward the lords of congress.
They are disappointed in the one, but
they hate the others, the lords of con-
gress who with the assistance of the
unorganiz ed and frightened majority
have thrust down the peoples throats
law not for them, but for the benefit
of the manufactures of New England
and the cousin states of New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and New York, and who
now hold up the legislation which the
president and the people demand.
'If the people in the rest of the
| northern states feel as do the people
| in the states who have spok en- through
the columns the of Chicago Tribune,
the end of the baronial is come, the
| nf tho ha rov,c m y, t>o rr1nro oD1