The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-25

alienable rights and their enjoyment
by minority are to be overthrown
by the passing whims OF majority,
why have constitution at all and
why courts?
SIXTH charge you with respon-
sibility for the defeat of the arbi-
tration treaties, the greatest progress
sive measure yet proposed by an
American President. The same as
in the case of reciprocity, which
you both favored and opposed, you
advocated the gospel of peace in
your Christiania speech, but immedi-
ately began knocking it when Presi-
dent Taft submitted a concrete plan
to carry IL out. The deciding vote
by which the treaties were emascu-
lated was cast by your own political
manager, Senator Dixon, who had
favored them up to the time of a
visit with you at New York on the
night preceding the vote in the Sen
ate. Your opposition evidently was
prompted by envy and jealousy of
President Tafts possible success in
the matter of this great world re-
form.
Seventh hold up to the sober
judgment OF the American people
your denial of all knowledge of the
100000 contributed to your cam
paign by the Standard Oil Company
in 1904. AS you knew of every
thing else connected with that cam
paign, that denial represents one of
the most remarkable issues of this
remarkable campaign. But why go
back as far as 1904, when the pres
ent campaign furnishes so instruc-
tive an object lesson? George w.
Perkins, Frank Munsey, Medill Nc
Cormick, Dan Hanna and others,
have been publicly charged with
having furnished your sinews of war
since you threw your hat into the
ring, and you have never denied it.
And are net these men the represen-
tatives of the steel and harvester
trusts, namely the trusts protected
by you and prosecuted by President
| Taft?
Eighth charge you with having
attempted by your diatribes against
the national committee, to incite the
people to riot and bloodshed. Have
you forgotten what you said about
such a Crime-and crime it is
in your first message to Congress af-
ter the assassination of President
Mckinley? Have you forgotten that
you sent your, then Secretary of
State, to New York to charge Mr..
Hearst with responsibility for that
great national calamity? But Mr..
Hearst's editorials were mild as
compared with your furious out
| bursts in which you characterized
/ honorable men as thieves and bri-
gands.
Ninth charge you with having
basely betrayed a friend in the per-
son of President Taft. Even to-day
| neither he nor the country can ac-
count for your faithlessness except
on the theory of your own inOrdin-
ate ambition or the legal procedure
against your pet trusts. And was
not President Taft, by virtue of par
ty tradition as we'll as his conscien-
tious performance of duty and pro-
gressive achievements justly entitled
to a second term?
Tenth shall not only support
Mr.. Taft, but oppose you with all
legitimate means at my command,
because of the contrast between you
and him. Mr. Taft is sane, safe and
| judicious, and under him the coun-
! try's progress and peace will be Sc
cure. But what is the use of telling
you? You know all this to be true
and have said the same things your
self, only in much stronger and more
glowing language.-New York Trib-
| une.