The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-19
HIS SILVER WEDDING.

Today is the silver wedding anni-
versary of President and Mrs Taft.
The Tribune Yesterday morning had a
very graceful and appropriate com.
mentary upon this event by Mrs John
y. Logan. who said: 1t has been my
fortune to observe many such func
tions, and | can recall none where there
has been a hcartier desire on the part
of the whole people of all conditions TO
show their interest and good wishes
for the continued welfare and happi
ness cf this typical American family. -
This is stating the matter gracefully
as well as forcihly and clearly The
estimation of President Taft in the
minds of the American people has been
heightened very materially by his
course during the past year Two
years ago, when the tariff revision was
on. II seemed a good deal as though
he were supine and Indifferent, n sort
lowed that expression. But he has ev.
identity seen the mistake of taking the
apathetic policy which he did at that
time. and has now reused himself to a
realization of the power inherent in
his office. and the need TO exercise il.
MS insistence that action should be
mad without delay upon the Canadian
reciprocity treaty, his frank utterances
about the evils of different schedules
in the new tariff law which he signed,
the necessity for intelligent and earn.
est revision of them. and his general
attiture toward the noteworthy lead
ers OF the Republican party, as we'll as
to the leaders of the Democratic party,
have brought him strongly into the lime
light, and have shown him to be as com
manding a figure mentally as he is
physically. 1t was said two years ago,
and has been said since, that President
Taft was no politician, that he did not
play politics in his office as President.
This is true. considered from the
Roosevelt, or the mere ruftian or low
down style of politics, But from the
statesmanlike altitude of high politics,
his acts are his strength. He is high
minded gentleman, who could not de
scend to trickery, and could not be a
if he tried
His family relations have been every
thing that could be desired from the
most rigid and inflexibIe standpoint
He IS man we'll beloved of the peo-
pie, and the peoples affection for him
is undoubtedly well placed. That the
boo - bo -,
and to Mrs. Taft, on this interesting
occasion of their twenty fifth wedding
anniversary, there is not the least
question. The tributes of affection and
confidence which are being received
by President and Mrs. Taft are un
paralleled in this country. They speak
louder than mere words can do, as TO
the high standing that President Taft
enjoys among all classes of the Amer
lean people. He is emphatically the
peoples President. and he administers
his office in such way as to bring to
him the high regard and confidence of
all the people in America.
In laying down the rules which have
brought nlm sucn happiness, sucn
honor, and such public confidence,
President Taft puts forth nothing
new; but he embodies the wisdom of the
ages in what he does say on this
point. Thorough confidence, thorough
candor, earnestness, and complete ad
herence TO principle, make up the sum
of his philosophy. In this he has ev-
identity found the Royal Road, as laid
down by an ancient sage:
THE Royal Road is Righteousness.
It's straight. without unevenness,
And private love and private hate
Ii leaves aside by going straight,
On every side II gives view
Forever clear, forever true:
And broad and easy It's to know
For him who has heart TO go.
The Royal Road shall never bend,
The Royal Road shall never end