Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-02-23
4 BaAvr. PArRIorIc PUBLIC sERvAN1

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On an inside page of today's CENSOR
appears the address of President Taft,
delivered before the New York repub-
Iican club at the Abraham Lincoln an
niversary observance. We are pleased
to direct attention of our readers to
these candid Gtterances of our presi-
dent-the executive of all the people:
an honest, daring, patriotic man. 1t is
fitting that such brave words should
have been spoken. on the anniversary Of
another great president, long since
passed away. This speech marks Will
liam H. Taft as one of the most force
full and courageous statesman that this
country has yet produced. The presi-
dent is no trimmer. He is not hosting
sail to catch every passing breeze; he
is not floating on the currents of popu-
lar prejud ice, seeking the applause of
the discontented. He recognizes, as
have all successful statesmen in the
past, that in republic PROCESS can
only come through mutual concession
and by reaching ground on which a
majority of the peoples representatives
in the law making branch of our gov
eminent can stand.
Few presidents since Lincoln's time
have faced harder task than that
which confronted Mr.. Taft less than
one year ago The agels sies that vainIy
sought the control of government in
President Roosevelt's administration
b,.Ted that in Taft they would find
less vigilant and strenuous guardian of
the peoples interests, but they soon
learned that they were dealing with
a man of iron will, though lacking
in some of the spectacular features of
his illustrious predecessor. The oil
trust. the tobacco trust and other large
combines that violated the law were
firmly dealt with, and there is at this
time more healthy respect for law on
the part of rich corporations than has
been manifest before in many years.
The yellow press and some cheap agi-
tators who attract attention by appeals
to the worst passions of mankind, at
tempted very early to discredit the pre-
sent administration and lost no oppor-
tunity to misrepresent the work laid
cut by the president and the means
used to accomplish it. The tariff af-
forded these apostles of unrest the OPP
portunity for endless fault finding, and
while every interest agricultural, min
ing, manufacturing and trading was
demanding prompt action that the BUSH
ness of the country might rest on
stable basis, the critics Of the presi-
dent, in and out of congress, were doing
all in their power to make his plans for
tariff revision fail The analysis Of the
tariff act given in the presidents Wi
mona speech, some months ago. and re-
peated in New York on the late oc-
casion of the Lincoln anniversary with
elaboration, shows that Taft is big
enough to be president; that he is no
coward, and that he is willing to trust
to time and the good sense of the PEG
pie to decide whether he or his critics
are right concerning the effect of the
late tariff act on the prosperity of our
country.
AS honest and earnest republicans,
and as people generally, we can afford
to be patient and give our president
square deal, and not allow inexperienced
theorists and supposedly rival presi-
Dental aspirants to poison our minds
against a man and official whose edu-
cation, training, experience and char
acter give promise OF one of the great
est presidents that ever presided over
the destinies of this favored land of
liberty.
We hope that all of our subscribers
will carefully read and thoroughly an
alyze the presidents speech published
elrewhere in this issue of the CENSOR.