The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-09-07

w. H. Taft, president of the Unite
States, is coming to Bellingham. NO
why don't you say to his rface VIVA
you have been saying to his back
for the past year or two. Perhap
you don't know it, but Taft has beel
renominated for the office OF pres
ident. A man in New York nomin
ated him. The republicans will ratif.
the nomination. The wires are be
ing laid for that now. Naturally Il
would be nice to have a little hurraf
i'm connection with the nomination
and that's why we are to have the
honor OF a visit from the president
at this time. We are expected tI
holler our heads off at a sight OF
the gentleman.
Big, fat, good-natured Taft.
wonder do you know how you are
being used-being used even on TINS
tour of the West. Your trainers are
batting you on the back ana telling
you the cheers which greet you are
cheers from an adoring people, ana
fear you believe them. As news
paper worker of some years, MI.
Taft | want to tell you: Cheering
crowds mean nothing. Many Of my
people Will go to Bellingham to see
and hear you. They will cheer for
YOU for you must remember, you are
president, but in two years the best
| have heard said about you, MIR. TAFT
is that you are good natured, easily
pursuaded by your friends, easily de-
cieved by your friends, and honest,
the worst is very much worse. /
don't believe, Mr.. Taft. that you
could today get 200 votes In cir
cular territory 20 miles across in the
Nooksack valley.
| voted for you, Mr.. Taft. You
are the first republican l ever voted
for, for president. was soon dis
appointed in you. was disappointed
with your selection of cabinate off,
icers. have been disappointed IN
you mary times since then. l find
that the things that have disappoint-
ed me have also disappointed many,
many of my readers and Others whom
l know. We expected you 10 be
more conservative than Mr.. Roosevelt
ard we wanted you to be, but we
wantcd you to be our leader-that is
the leader of the masses. You have
net been our leader. You have not
even been the leader of the repub-
lican party. You have not even been
the leader of the ''stand-patters" Of
the republican party. In almost al
important matters your voice has
been heard last of all, and, an
sorry to say it, almost always 81
has been an echo of the voice of the
big commercial interests. l am not
we are not-fighting the big CONNER
cial interests. We of the West neet
the pic corporations more than an!
other section Of the United States
We need capital so badly that j
almost breaks our hearts not Il
fight the conservation policies inaug
Grated by your predecessor. SOM
OF lis do selfishly fight them. SOM
of us are almost willing to mortgage
our children's heritage to bring tn
needed capital now.
No, we are not fighting the bi!
comme rcial interests. We are tryinl
every honest way We know to induc
them to come among us land be GU
friends. But, Mr.. Taft, We want GU
government to show no Partially
We want every man to have equa
rights, whether he be the head Of
gigantic corporation or merely one
its iowly tools We want our pres
ident to represent the 100000 PEG
ple and not alone the few thousand
We want him to listen to the lowl
voice of the farmer and the laborin
man as we'll as to the strident wits
pe;,ngs of the big capitalists.
am sorry to write this. / am al
most pursuaded not to print 1t. Fol
from my youth I have been laugh
to reverence the high office you I'll
and from my young manhood l hav
d.slked to say or write words tina
would give pain to an honest man
and | believe you are an honest maj
though a woefully misled one'
think I would not print It, were
not convinced that you will never SC
II that there must be some sys'e'
of keeping away from you all fema'