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Helena, Montana.
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man law had been applied with
energy from tho outset and Its full
valuo shown, tho later, larger trust
ovlls would not have come into exis
tence. IJud U10 first trusts been
strangled tho breed would have dis
appeared. But why condemn Judson Harmon
for taking his cue from Grover
Clovoland and Richard Olnoy? Why
should ho have girded up for battle
when thoy wero unbuckled and "in
blissful repose ?" Ho may wish now
that ho had tried his 'prentice hand
as Attorney General in a way to stir
things, but tho sentiment of that day
did not urgo him to the step, and
that is all there is to it.
THTO McNAMARAS
Tho Herald has not commented on
tho trial of tho McNamara brothors
because it makes it a rulo never to
discuss tho merits of a case that is
bofore a court of justico, and now it
would doal in tho broadest sense
with what this confession of astound
ing and terrible guilt "means to the
country.
No bomb theso men over exploded
in their campaign of terrorism to
onforco thoir dictum as to terms of
employment over did one-millionth
part of tho damago to property that
was done to tho honorable cause of
labor by, tho bomb that exploded in
tho court room at Los Angeles.
Fraternized workingmon every
where who have been contributing
from their wages to the dofonso fund
will now realize what they have not
realized before. They have been led
badly. Leadership that ends in such
a situation for some millions of re
spoctablo men is not the leadership
that will bring permanent improve
ment to tho condition of wago
earners.
It was under such leadership that
organized labor leaped forward as
one man to the defense of, the prison
ers. Tho typo must change; the
mothods must change; the persistent
widening of tho broach must cease
if the position of labor is to bo
benefited by organization.
Out of it all we believe good, great
and lasting, will come. But it will
surely not come through social
revolution nor through the constant
preaching against the courts and
men who have money. It is time for
a revolution in labor thinking. New
York Horald.
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Following is an editorial that ap
peared in tho Philadelphia North
American, a republican newspaper,
issue of Monday, December 18th:
Six months from today the republi
can party must nominate a candidate
for president of the United States.
As to whom tho party will select as
its leader tho most astute politicians
dare not hazard an honest guess at
this time. Tho true significance of
the present strange situation can be
understood more fully by keeping in
mind tho following facts:
Since the first election of Lincoln
every republican president, except
ing Hayes and the two vice presi
dents advanced by the deaths of Lin
coln and Garfield, has been renomi
nated by the party.
Three years ago President Taft
was elected by a united republican
party and accepted the duties of
office better liked and moro admired
by press and public, including the
democratic opposition, than had been
any predecessor in half a century.
During his three years in office
there has been no great crisis, no
national upheaval. Yet it is extre
mely doubtful if, even with his power
as president, his control of patronage
in general and his ownership of the
herd of office-holding southern dele
gates from tho states where there is
no real republican party, he can ob
tain a renomination. And he him
self has -admitted that, if nominated,
his re-election would be. doubtful.
Such, a radical chance in nartv and
public sentiment toward a president
is without precedent. And it is the
moro remarkable because the revul
sion of feeling toward the man who
took office with the admiring good
will of tho whole people is not the
result of any one deed or happening,
not the creation of enemies nor of
any faction; but is due to the gradual
increase of popular understanding of
the character and limitations of Mr.
Taft.
In short, it is due to the ever-increasing
belief that Mr. Taft, while
an excellent subordinate, as an exe
cutive is incompetent, undependable,
vacillating and vindictive.
Mr. Taft has constantly alienated
loyal republicans ever since the day
he announced the selection of his
cabinet. The character of his ad
ministration was only too plainly
foreshadowed by his appointment of
men generally known to represent
tho very forces which the people had
elected Mr. Taft to combat.
Tho breach of pledges to support
the Roosevelt policies, which alone
had made his election possible,
promptly followed. The real exemp
lars of the progressive policies were
stricken down, one by one, and in
their places men: of reactionary views
were installed.
A shameless alliance was made
with Aldrich and Cannon, to the
utter exclusion of the men who re
mained faithful to tho policies which
constituted tho platform upon which
Mr. Taft had been elected. A party
division in congress soon developed.
The progressives, both in the houso
and the senate, refused to be driven
or bribed by patronage into desert
ing tho progressive doctrines which
had developed so greatly under
Roosevelt.
The president's prime offense was
the signing of the Paync-Aldrich
tariff bill, which, despite its indefen
sible character, he proclaimed "the
best tariff bill ever passed."
His abandonment of his own In
come tax plan and his joyful satis
faction with a powerless, maimed
excuse for a real tariff commission
already had given to the public a
distasteful inkling of his character
as an executive. Distrust deepened
when the Ballinger exposure dis
closed the deplorable truths that the
president had signed as his own judg
ment drawn by a Ballinger lieuten
ant and had caused his attorney
general to antedate an official docu
ment and thereby grossly deceive the
public.
That early, too, the American
people began by degrees to perceive
that the policy of the Taft adminis
tration was distinctly adverse to Doc
tor Wiley and tended toward the per
sistent lowering of the pure food
standards.
There began, also, to be public
understanding that the foreign policy
created by John Hay and sustained
by Root and Roosevelt, of which the
nation was properly proud,was to
be abandoned, and for it substituted
a diplomacy for and by a group of
Wall street financiers, making the
United States government a more
bond-peddling salesman for private
interests in the eyes of all foreign
diplomats.
There followed the regular session
of congress. Proposed legislation,
palpably drawn to favor the in
terests, was prepared at the White
house and sent to congress with the
president's command that it must be
passed without the change of a word
or a comma. So brazen was this be
trayal of party pledges that the best
members of the republican party in
both branches of congress openly
raised the banner of revolt against
the Taft leadership.
Yet within the last three months
President Taft has so underestimated
the intelligence of his countrymen as
repeatedly to claim credit for the
radical and beneficial alterations that
wero forced into that measure, in
direct opposition to his dictation.
After that session the sentiment
against tho president greatly in
creased in the ranks of his party.
Nor did the opposition cease to grow
from that time until the calling of
the extra session to ratify the reci
procity agreement which the presi
dent had secretly arranged with
representatives of the Canadian gov
ernment. That measure greatly
changed the party sentiment toward
the president. He made a deal with
the American Newspaper Publishers
association to give to them free print
paper, regardless of the fate of the
general measure, in return for their
support of the reciprocity pact.
That reciprocity bill, bearing the
unqualified indorsement of the presi
dent, was a cheat and a sham, having
only the merit of a popular party
label. The progressives of the house
and senate soon laid bare the suspi
cious nature of the measure and de
clared against it. The daily news
papers, however, almost without ex
ception, gave unstinted support to
the president's plan and misrepre
sented the position of tho progres
sives. It is beyond dispute that the
special session closed with a not gain
of popularity for Mr. Taft.
But as the real character of the
reciprocity agreement became bettor
known, the opposition to Mr. Taft
began to grow. His counselors
foolishly advised tho president to go
out before the people and defend his
variegated course. From the day
his ill-advised tour began until it
closod he succeeded only in stimulat
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