The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-10-15
SECRETARYKNOX
EULOC|zES TAFT
ANDASSA|LST.R.
Member of Presidents Cabinet
Addresses Large Meeting
at Seattle, Wash.
PRAISES TAFT MEASURES
Enumerates Record Made by
Sixty first, Republican
Congress.
PRAISES TAFT MEASURES

Seattle, Wash, Oct. Ia Secre-
tary Knox said;
1T has been well and truly said:
The reckless use Of words, whose
sound is greater than their sense has
brought more misery and bloodshed
upon the world, than the worst
crime unpunishable by law.
"On the sixth Of August, 1919,
Theodore Roosevelt in his speech be-
fore the Progressive convention in
Chicago said the Republican party
is husk with no real soul, boss rid
den and privilege controlled, jum-
BE OF incongruous clements not dan
ing to speak out wisely and fearless
ly what would be said Of the issues
OF today.
This is a terrific Indictment OF
the greatest political party ever
formed by free people to work out
the problems OF popular government
and II is important TO know whcther
ii is truth or talk. Let us test 1t by
the consideration Of some undisputed
facts,
Asks 7. RS Meaning.
Does Mr.. Roosevelt mean that un-
der Lincoln, Grant, Harrison and
Mckinley the party was husk and
had no soul? Does he mean that un-
der his own leadership of seven
years such was its barren condition
that during that period nothing was
accomplished for the general good?
I fancy not. Does he mean that at
the time he surrendered the office
to the man whose nomination he had
insisted upon the party had so sadly
generated? That is unthinkable.
Does he mean that the deplorable
condition he describes existed when
on September 81, 1910 at the Sara
toga convention, he commended the
accomplishment of the Republican
president and congress, during the
first half of this administration as
wise and progressive Certainly not,
for that would be inconsistent and
untrue Then just when was tue
moment of time between September
27, 1910, and Auugst 6, 1912, that
the party Of unparalleled accom-
pishments and unheard of altruism
and humanity became a husk, with
no real soul and what produced the
change? Evidently it was when
and because the party, taking him at
his word, refused to nominate him
for a third term, and this | believe is
susceptible to demonstration, not
only from Mr.. Roosevelts own words
but by a thoughtful consideration
of President Taft's record"
Tells of Record
Sec. Knox enumerated the i'm
portant measures enacted by the
sixty-frst congress upon the recon-
mendation of the President and in
fulfllment of the party's pledges
and continued;
what better proof of far sighted
and enlightened craftsmanship
along progressive lines can be found
than in those measures initiated and
advocated by President Taft?
I'm each case his action rests
upon the sound proposition that the
welfare of the people and the nation
can best be secured by establishing
safeguards against injustice and
greed and by recognizing that the
prosperity of individuals and of ma
tionS. deDandent ,non tha;r fo; .
dealing with one another. Probably
at no preiod of our history, have
such advanced, progressive and far
reaching policies of beneficence been
pressed in one administration.
Defends President Taft.
mo man could successfully chal-
lenge the probity and correctness of
the attitude of President Taft to-
ward the issues presented In the de-
mands of modern life. No one who
harkens to the truth challenges
president Taft's unremitting efforts
to bring about honesty in public life,
to check autocratic political dicta-
tion. to secure equality of American
opportunity to repress corporate ag-
gression; to control irresponsible
and constituencies wealth, and to
break up corrupt alliances between
wealth and politics. | venture to say