Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-10-29


numbering upwards of ten million
strong within the United states:
feel free to speak to you again.
The main points at issue In the COM
ing election are exactly as stated IN my
letter of October 4. Nothing l SAID
therein has been disproved. Neither
tho contractor nor the merchant
would put at the head Of his own mer-
camille or railroad business a man, no
matter how scholarly, who never had
an hours experience In managing 1or
four wears the million OF people EN-
Moved by the government and the ex-
penditure of billion of money an
nually.
ideal grievances against the govern
ment call for ideal treatment.
II the malady is wrong the remedy
proposed is surely wrong.
So far It seems to many the cry 1or
liberation is but howl for power.
one does not go jauntily or 'flippant-
w when the sense of a great RESPONSE
bility Is upon him.
past administrations of the govern
ment have seldom had more than one
great question to deal with.
For a long period it was the ques-
ton of slavery. WI. a.@. i.
Latterly it has been the question OF
trusts and their regulation.
In the next four years there are
fronting us the supremely vital issues
Monetary affairs, .-. .a -
Transportation, including the Pana-
ma canal.
Commerce and labor.
which of the three men running lot
The office of president is best qual1fled
10 deal with these questions mink
of it! '.ft,4s, r, ~
We are no longer young country.
IF changes are to be made snould
thev NOT he made with infinite eau
ton? :,
The constitution has been well tried
and has not been found wanting.
Granting for arguments sake that
Presidents Lincoln and Grant made
mistakes, swould the people have voted
them out at the end OF their 11rst
term? thst,; ~
IF Taft has made mistakes there
have been, extenuating circumstances
for which he was not wholly RESPONSE
BILE. No one has dared to add quit TO TO
any of the presidents errors.
Who is it that wants Taft dis.
missed 2" Is 1t simply to open lhe
place for one who Is candldate LOT
the presidency? ,,
Is it the employers of labor and the
builders of prosperity who urge THIS
change?
Can those who pay little or no taxes
be the best judges, OF what is for the
country's good?
on the whole. what think you, is 1t
not advisable to endeavor to put 1nflu-
ence and property together and look
round for sure footing for four years
for the good of the working people, as
we'll as for capital already invested?
To sit quietly by and see people mis-
led by persons with new propositions,
but without proper equipment for
framing a new government, Is weak
and unpatriotic.
Should not all the old republicans
and the young men who expect to help
republicanism get into the ranks and
strengthen, the present executive gov
eminent instead of weakening 1t?
Not for one moment will Mr. Taft
leave things as they are in the bank
ing, tariff and trust laws when he can
clearly better them in the light of ex-
perience and with the assistance OF the
best men he can find to help him.
This is surely not the time to desert
the republican flag. a.5
Those who bite at Taft respect him
1-,,n %rnSo OF fh0f
the risks of his continuance as the ex-
ecutive are infinitesimal in compaT1-
son with the probabilities from adj
ministration by either OF the other
candidates.. ~, s~
True love of country can afford to
put away calumny. venom and disap-
pointments and act for the most GER
tain good s. .
The man who for four years has
stood silently under misinterpretation
of acts he was not wholly responsible
for must have some kingfy stuff In
him, though he has not sought to be-
come president on his own proclama-
ton after the nomination could not be
stolen away from him.
It takes great soul to make great
man. ~-D
There is nothing finer IN humanity
than capacity for loyalty and devotion
to duty when not always understood.
MY chief object In writing this letter
is to touch once more upon the tariff
question. Less than half a dozen per-
sons, probably, misunderstood my let
ter of October 4, in that for the sake
of brevity only purposely omitted
the occasional monetary panics with
which every country is afflicted at
times. . .-.
dealt in my letter only with the
tariff question and its panics.
A tariff panic is worse than any
other because 1t is the death blow to
Industries and labor. A shlvering life
is noticeable in monetary panics, but
q tariff breakdown is practically in
slant death to labor.
Take the Cleveland tariff of 1898,
when Mr.. Wilson came home from
abroad after having said, If correctly
reported at the banquet he attended in
London. that we were fenced in,
hemmed in by our tariff policies and