The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-10-04
WILSON BATTLING FOR HIS
FELLOWMEN, SAYS RABBI
A. j. MESSING, OF BLOOM
INGTON, ILLINOIS.

4N0ION, ILLINOIS.
Religion, it is said, is incompatible
with politics and a preacher is out of
place on the hastings. Yet, try as YOU
will YOU cannot separate the religious
from the civic. The third-term crusa-
aders frankly declare that they battle
for the Lord" They quote the Bible.
however, irrevelant, and sing hymns.
however, Inconsistent. When Oscar
Straus, high i'll the councils of the Jewish
| Church, received his nomination for
Governor Of New York. the convention
sang, Onward Christian Soldiers
"ThesDemoCTats.in this campaign are
| happily excused from personal attacks
upon their opponents. To get a careful
estimate of the life and character of Mr.
William Howard Taft, and you need not
| go to Democratic sources. You need
not only consult the speeches of his
sponsor, Theodore Roosevelt. For a
careful story of the life and character of
Theodore Roosevelt consult the recent
speeches of his political godchlld, VIM
Howard Taft.
CONTEST or CoRPSES.
The other day in the West an euthu-
sasuc admirer of Theodore Roosevelt
| shouted: Tell us something about Mr.
Taft. / never discuss dead issues, re-
Piled the Colonel. Well, if Taft is dead
to many minds the only difference be-
| tween him and his arch enemy Is that
! he has been officially declared so and the
present campaign is merely to determine
which corpse will receive the flowers
The fact is the people are tired of
this dlseraceful quarrel. Like Mercutio
in Shakespeare immortal story, limo
cent victim of the bitter feud between
the house Of Montague and the house
at Capulet, feud which embroiled the
retanerSss of the noble families from
the highest relatives to the lowest ser
wants, SO the common citizen today be-
tween the wrath of Roosevelt and the
rage of Taft exclaimS, "A plague on both
your houses
| CAMPAIGN PRINCIPLES.
This should be a campaign not OF
persons, but of principles. All men
know that things are wrong. The rank
and file of the nation finds life very hard
to sustain. The many earn what they
do not get in order that the few may get
what they do not earn. How can all OF
this be beltered by determining who was
rightfully nominated at Chicago The
issue before the country is far deeper, far
more important than the paltry question
OF stolen nomination.
Suppressed by evasion, belittled by
sophistrY, and yelled in indirection. the
two vital things that concern America
today are the tariff and the trusts.
I'm 1908, in order to get in the Repub-
lcan party promised to revise the tariff
downwards Being in they proceeded
to revise it up. For that act of bad faith
they were severely punished in the Con
gressional elections of 1910 A Demo-
cratic House of Representatives exam
| ined every schedule which could possibly
! afford an opportunity for monopoly or
/ increase the high cost OF living. But
| every Tariff Bill passed by Democratic
| House of Representatives and a combi-
nation of Democrats and Republicans in
| the Senate was vetoed by the President
| His excuse was that the Tariff Board
knew more about the tariff than Con
| gress.
BULL MOOSE FAVORS TRUSTS
THE only party seeking the SURFACES
of the people in this campaign which has
a word of apology or defense for the
! fairfield trust is the Bull Moose party.
! Federal control. This is just what the
magnates have been wanting during all
| these years.
The people today are listening to
the call of the Bull Moose. Do you
| know what a moose call is? The Cen
tury Dictionary defines a moose call to
be "A trumpet of birch bark used i'll call
! ing the moose to an ambuScade or
blind. Do we not daily see the people
to the ambuscade or blind? We hear
the sonnd of the trumpet. Never for a
moment are we permitted TO forget the
blower But the real and vital question
is, Who is paying for the trumpet and
the music?' Have you any doubt that it
| is George w. Perkins, former partner
| of !. Pierpont Morgan, and co-defendant
with Morgan and his crowd in the suit
which is this week being prosecuted in
| Chicago for the segregation of the Har-
vester Trust?
THE. T-R.U ST PARTY.
1.-The Bull Moose in honor of its
! founder, call their party the +. X. party
| They abbreviate unnecessarily. 1t is the
T. X. u. 5. T. party.
The Tariff Board and the Corpora
| ton Commission illustrate the fallacv Of
| the Republican faith They believe that
+ America ought to be governed by trustees
/ and that these trustees should be the
| managers of the oldest and greatest
1 vested interests in the country. As
/ Democrat find myself absolutely pro-
/ testing against this theory. will not
live under trustees if / can help it. No
| group of men less than majority have
| right to tell me how | have got TO live in
/ America | will submit to the majority
because / have been trained to do So
and being Democrat submit my judy
ment 10 the majority of my fellow-men.