Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-12-08

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chill.
Now I would like to ask the edi-
tor if it wasn't during Taft's ad-
ministration that this nation reach
ed the highest point of national and
individual prosperity and also If
there wasn't fewer bank failures
and less tramps than this country
has known for the last 40 years, al
so if the common people weren't
better clothed, better fed and bet
ter housed than at any other time
during the history of the nation, If
our prosperity during Taft's admin
istration was not the marvel of the
world, whether or not the working
out of the Payne-Aldrich bill did
not prove that his assertion was
true when he said in his Winona
speech that it was the best tariff bill
that had ever been enacted, wheth-
er or not the business of the Unit
ed States both large and small did
not feel perfectly secure in enlarg-
ing their business operations and
reaching out for greater trade?
In fact was not everybody, both
great and small, satisfied until a
few disgruntled politicians who
wanted to suck the public teat be-
gan sowing the seed of discomfort?
Of course Taft made few minor
mistakes. But, Mr.. Editor, kindly
tell us at what time during the his
tory of our nation were the people
so universally employed and their
dinner pail so we'll filled as during
the administration of President
Taft? In my judgment the repub-
lican party could do no better than
to nominate the expresident as its
standard bear, or if they should
not see fit to nominate the ex-presi-
dent I hope they will at least nom
mate a Republican. II.
P. S.-Mr. Editor, I want to ask
you to kindly contrast the splendid
business-like administration OF ex-
president Taft with the weak, pan
lev administration of President Will
son.
The difference in the condition OF
the country today compared with
Taft's administration is due entirely
to the enemies of Taft. To this
do not believe the editor will dis
agree.
! The correspondent is right when
he assumes that the suggestion OF
the nomination of Taft by the re-
publican party in 1916 gives the
Freeman-Tribune a chill, and such a
nomination would, in the judgment
of the writer, give the republican
party the nightmare, for it would be
equivalent to party suicide. The
Freeman Tribune wants the republl-
can party to "come back in 1916
and again assume control of the gov
eminent, but it knows that such a
contamination would be impossible
with Mr.. Taft as the standard bear
er.
It is admitted that under the ad-
ministration of President Taft the
country was prosperous, due largely
to republican principles, but main
" to the confidence which the bust
ness world reposes in the party. 1t
would have been the same under
any republican, on the whole, but
there is liable to be short seasons of
panic under any administration.
From the day Mckinley was elected
in 1896 down to the day of the cleo
| ton of Wilson in 1917, the ADVANCE
ment of industrial and commercial
interests was general, with one or
two short halts, and prosperity OBJ
tanned as a matter of course. But
there is something in government
of, by and for the people aside from
the accumulation of the Almighty
Dollar. There must be political free
dom, civic Righteousness and efforts
to give every person square deal.
When President Taft tried to coerce
republican representatives to sup
port measures distasteful to them,
using federal patronage as a CLUB,
and when he declared that republl-
can representatives who refused to
support the notorious Wickersham