Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-27

Of action lies progress. There be no political
progress without it. Isn't the wise and patriotic
thing in this case to make sure OF prosperity,
though the victory come through Roosevelt instead
of Taft?
If this victory could come through Taft, you
would not be in the political dilemma you III
today. Inasmuch as it cannot come through Taft,
and nasn1uch as the only way it can come is
through Roosevelt, you have option in the mat
ter. 1t is either Roosevelt with good business and
governmental progress, Wilson with bad bust
ness and governmental shy-shallying
Every day hear business men talking as they
talked nine months ago, with seemingly little ap-
probation of what has happened in nine months in
this national political contest
It was all right nine months ago to discuss with
regard to their nomination, the merits of individual
candidates and our preferences for or prejudices
against them. 1t was all right then to urge that
Mr.. Roosevelt was dangerous to business interests;
that he ambitious; that he was without suff-
cient regard for conventionality in government,
and for our constitution in particular, or that IA
becoming candidate he was unfair to Mr.. Taft
1t was all right then to urge that Mr. Taft was en-
titled to second term; that he had given good
administration; that he had shown full and be-
coming gratitude to the who made him presi-
dent of the United States. 1t all right, say,
to insist on these views nine months ago, if you
honestly believed them, but they not the issue
of today. TO bark back to them now and hang the
decision of your vote on them doesn't show clear
or sincere reasoning. 1t shows either illogical
thinking or purpose to deceive yourself if not 10
deceive others.
In these nine months we have lived half a CEN
fury, politically considered. Then there two
big political parties in the field; today there are
three. Then the fight in the Republican party was
between two members Of that party, Mr. Taft and
Mr.. Roosevelt.
That fight is dead issue. 1t is history 1t
has no more to do with the real fight of the present
campaign than if it had come off quarter of
he fol fnr ho half II,
Republican economic policies, is against Wilson
and the Democratic party. The fight now is for
good business and for policies that will mean good
business. The fight now is against the destruction
of these policies
The great stubborn fact that you must reckon
with is that Taft cannot, under any circumstances,
be elected. There isn't an intelligent man any,
where who doesn't realize that this is SO. Every
man who can straight and hear straight every
man who isn't befogged in prejudice, knows that it
is
Notwithstanding this fact, the Republican
pagn managers, in their public utterances, are bra
zenly giving the lie to their convictions in their
claims, frantically spread broadcast, that Taft
and will be elected
If it were a matter Of running for the presidency
OF a social club, or some other place of no
quence to the hundred millions of our people, some
thing OF no consequence to the business interests of
the country, it would be thing, but when false
statements like these are put out to deceive voters
merely that the Republican organization may be
kept intact, it is crimnally dishonest.
Your concern, Mr. Business Man. has to do main
ly with good business and general prosperity. To
sacrifice these to prejudice for beaten leader
and broken party is to prostitute the responsible
ity of citizenship and disregard the interests of your
fellow men.
The Democratic party opposes tariff pro-
tective measure-opposes tariff that protects
industries, opposes tariff that protects the Amer
lean wage, and asserts, it has always asserted,
that if we to have tariff it should be as
INCREASING scheme rather than as means of pro-
lection.
Moreover, not only is it opposed to worth
while tariff, and to the economic policies under
which we have recor.ed such marvellous prosperity,
but it is archaic to degree. 1t doesn't fit the per-
iod 1t holds sacredly to the antiquated states
rights ideas, and opposes whatever looks to national
bigness and national power.
1t is charged by Mr. Roosevelt's enemies that he
did nothing, when he was president to remodel the
tariff and eliminate its abuses This is true, and the
reason for it is that Mr. Roosevelt doing bigger
things at that time
We were in period of great national prosperity
under the tariff it then existed. If Mr. Roosevelt
had found the country in the soup-house condition
in which Mckinley found it taking over the
reins OF government after four years of Democratic
rule, he would have jumped in tariff legislation,
and there wOuld have heen sonnet hing doing Rut