The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-28
A FINE TRIBUTE TO IOWA.
State is Not lnsurgent But is the
Home Of Sane constructiveness.

Iowa is making straight through the
desert an highway for the best that
can come. She is not insurgent. She
is not reactionary She is the spot OF
earth where the light of sane con-
structiveness is shining. From per-
sonal letter to the editor of the Bur
lington Hawk-Eye.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: 1t is a pleas
ure to receive communications from
individuals who earnestly watch the
course of political events and pass
judgment upon them frankly and with
a keen insight into the fundamental
principles underlying every motive in
human affairs. Such a letter has been
received from a writer in Mississippi
by the editor of The Hawk-Eye. The
writer is an old time Democrat, who
had previously expressed disappoint-
ment with President Taft, and who
now writes to express his change of
sentiment concerning him. The writ
er Is a deep student of political and
general affairs who usually arrives at
the right conclusion on any topic
which he earnestly considers.
The letter being a private one 1t is
necessary to withhold the name of the
writer, but the reader may rest assur-
ed that those portions quoted are gen.
uine expressions of opinion by a man
whose Judgment is worthy of respect
and attention. What he says about
Iowa is nothing more than all true
Iowa Republicans and conservative
citizens generally have commended.
amid all the clatter of the insurgio-
democratic pronunciamentos concern
ing the political sentiment among its
people. The letter is as follows, just
as received from Mississippi, by the
editor last evening:
June %, 1901 have been watch
ing that man Taft and | want to tell
you he is about the biggest man we
have had in the presidency since LIN
coin confess my error. do not re-
fer to the railroad injunction, but to
his calm mastery of congress and his
general sanity. He will be found to be
the only man who can save the coun-
try from the Democratic party and
Roosevelt at the end of his term.
Both would be calamity. Democ.
racy is not now fit to govern. There
is no cohesion. no constructive pol
icy, no dominant man, no busienss ex7
perience or acumen in Democracy. 1t
is simply the disorganized criticism
of Republican mistakes.
THE Republican party has made
mistakes, but if you will recall the
history of its work since the war you
will observe that it realizes It's own
mistakes and corrects them, If slowly.
The Democratic party can never re-
adjust the tariff, nor finances, nor the
corporations or any of the vital
things. 1t can only assail, 1t is not con-
structive.
Roosevelt represents the crusader
who made possible the renaissance
which destroyed him. He represents
the militant conscience; Taft the
brain conscience or judicial con-
science. Some one will come along
later who will possess the power OF
muscle conscience, the wisdom of jul
dicial conscience and the benediction
of heart conscience; and then, Taft
also will be an anacronism.
'In all this Iowa is making straight
through the desert an highway for the
best that can come. She is not insur-
cont Che 10 not reactionary She is
the spot of the earth where the light
of sane constructiveness is shining.
Up. G. d."